Looking for a remote email processing work from home telecommuting position?
You surely want to avoid this email
This is an actual example of the email processing scam!
- Read through the actual email advertising the remote email processing position.
- We'll review why it's NOT a legitimate offer for work!
Other than that, the content has not been changed, except for changing what the sender's actual email address was.
As you read through the email below, see if you can recognize the signs as to why it's not a legitimate offer of work:
"I just wanted to start off by thanking you for your time and interest in the position.
Basically what you would be doing is "processing" emails. This means that when someone clicks on an advertisement they will enter their contact information.
You will then receive an email with that information. In the subject line of that email it will tell you what advertisement they replied to.
You then look up in your training materials the corresponding reply, and you cut and paste that reply into the email and click send.
That's it you are done. Yes it really is that simple. You will get paid 15 to 20 dollars for each "processed" email. The pay is immediate there is no waiting period whatsoever.
You are paid to your personal paypal account. If you don't have a paypal account then sign up for one free at www.paypal.com.
You will need the personal account because that one is the free account. Therefore you aren't charged anything for receiving money.
There is no website i can send you to or anything like that. I am an independent contractor just like you would be. This enables you to chose your own hours.
There is no contract to sign you simply work when you want to or when you have the time. Like any legitimate online position there is a SMALL one time fee of 16.00 USD. This is only for administrative fees.
All of your materials and training are provided to you. You are not left high and dry. In no way do I want anyone to feel miss lead.
This is legitimate, there are no hidden fees what so ever. You may begin work as soon as you receive the materials, there is no waiting period.
If you try this you are guaranteed to make money. With your first email you will have already made back your administrative fee.
I was skeptical at first just like anyone else, but i did my research and found that anything you would want to do at home requires a small fee.
So, i decided to try it, and trust me I'm happy I did. I make on average 500 dollars a week. Give or take. I figured hey if I could sit in my jammies all day and make money then why the heck not. There is an unlimited amount of work.
If you are still interested simply open a paypal account and process the administrative fee.
Send the payment to scamprocessing@crooksville when you do that I will receive an email from paypal.
At that time I will send you all of the information you need to get started immediately. Thanks for your time and have a great day."
Now let's take a close look at the email processing advertisement, and take it apart to identify why it's a scam.
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| Email Processing Telecommuting Work |
⚑ "When someone clicks on an advertisement they will enter their contact information."
That reveals they are advertising the work from home email processing positions!
That reveals they are advertising the work from home email processing positions!
They may do so from legitimate career websites - making job seekers more vulnerable to accept their fraudulent position.
Their basic description of the email processing work was as follows:
⚑ "You then look up in your training materials the corresponding reply, and you cut and paste that reply into the email and click send."
As mentioned earlier in this article, they describe it as a basic 'copy and paste' task.
Keep in mind, legitimate employers don't need people to copy and paste to reply to emails, as the first response to many emails is often automated by email software - reducing the amount of physical labor.
⚑ "You will get paid 15 to 20 dollars for each "processed" email."
Sorry folks, but that pay is a major red flag!
A legitimate employer would not pay $15.00 - $20.00 for a simple cut and paste task per email, which would only take minutes to complete!
If the pay is really high, then something is terribly wrong!
⚑ "There is no website i can send you to or anything like that. I am an independent contractor just like you would be."
Keep in mind the fact that legitimate businesses that are doing business online, would have a legitimate website.
Even if the person is claiming to be self employed, independent contractor, if they were legitimately representing a legit employer, there would at least be a website of the legitimate employer!
That is therefore another major flag, as there is too much secrecy! Moving on now to the next red flag, which has two rolled into one:
⚑ "There is no contract to sign you simply work when you want to or when you have the time. ⚑ Like any legitimate online position there is a SMALL one time fee of 16.00 USD. This is only for administrative fees."
A legitimate offer of employment will require you to jump through hoops, so they can determine if you are qualified for the position. There is no required experience!
A legitimate offer for independent contracting would also normally require some sort of an agreement to be signed, as that person would be entering into a 1099 contracting position.
That should always be a red flag: No employment hiring documents required, or no contracting documents required!
The fee of $16.00 for administrative fees is the second red flag within that paragraph.
A legitimate employer takes on the costly burden of bringing an employee on board, and they therefore would not charge an employee an 'administrative fee'!
An independent contracting position would also not normally require an 'administrative fee'!
What it boils down to, is the fact the person is scamming individuals out of $16.00 for the so-called administrative fee. Then they would probably disappear after collecting the $16.00 from the person, and move onto the next!
Don't take the crooks bait! Let's continue on to the next point:
⚑ "All of your materials and training are provided to you. You are not left high and dry. In no way do I want anyone to feel miss lead."
Not 'left high and dry.' and doesn't want anyone to feel 'misled'!
Now that's where we can get a good laugh!
In order to attempt to defer a person from becoming suspicious, they actually make it a point to tell you exactly what they intend to do after collecting your $16.00! To leave the person 'high and dry', and yes, 'misled' is absolutely where it was leading! Notice how they attempt to use reverse psychology to deceive a person, by actually admitting the deception they hope to indeed mislead a person!
In order to attempt to defer a person from becoming suspicious, they actually make it a point to tell you exactly what they intend to do after collecting your $16.00! To leave the person 'high and dry', and yes, 'misled' is absolutely where it was leading! Notice how they attempt to use reverse psychology to deceive a person, by actually admitting the deception they hope to indeed mislead a person!
⚑ "This is legitimate, there are no hidden fees what so ever."
Once again in order to deter a person from thinking it's not legitimate, they attempt to emphasize that it is legitimate, another sign that it's all smoke and mirrors!
⚑ "If you try this you are guaranteed to make money. With your first email you will have already made back your administrative fee.
How is it that there is any type of 'guarantee'? If a position is a legitimate 'independent contracting' position, there is no guarantee that one would be paid for their work completed, unless they signed a legitimate contract!
Yet, remember, they made it clear that there is no contract to sign!
No contract, therefore no guarantee that a person would be paid for completed work.
This smacks of them simply wanting to collect the $16.00 (or often times even more), and then move onto the next victim.
In this next point we again have two red flags rolled into one statement:
⚑ "I was skeptical at first just like anyone else, ⚑ but i did my research and found that anything you would want to do at home requires a small fee."
As the person did with their prior statements, here again they attempt to deter their victim from thinking that they should be 'skeptical'.
By reassuring their victim that they are empathetic (not), and know you would feel skeptical, they hope to detract you from those thoughts by actually bringing it up.
Then in the second red flag they attempt to assure the person they; 'did research and found that anything you would want to do at home requires a small fee.' which is simply not true!
By telling their victim that it's been researched, they hope to deter them from feeling they need to do the same!
The other point to stress is again the fact that they are trying to assure their victim that there is no work from home opportunities without a small fee. This is again not true! There are many legitimate employers and businesses that hire people without charging a fee!
⚑ "If you are still interested simply open a paypal account and process the administrative fee."
Now they have made their closing statement, as their final attempt to hook the person with their bait. Now we are at their final statement:
⚑ "At that time I will send you all of the information you need to get started immediately. Thanks for your time and have a great day."
They now attempt to assure the work from home independent contractor, that once they send the money they will then send the information.
Problem is though, again there is no actual business plan, contract or agreement. There's nothing binding them to submitting the 'information', and this is when they possibly head for the beach to spend the $16.00.
If you receive that email, or one similar cancel their phishing trip by not responding to them! And, be sure to report them to the proper authorities!
In regards to work at home email processing scams, that actual example of email processing by all means represents what NOT to get involved with!
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