So I found a job on yahoo.com.

The employer gave me a # after a couple of e-mails discussing the validity of his business. I wanted to make sure it wasn’t a scam or fraud since it was a work at home job over the internet that required access to the internet and a telephone.

His grammar wasn’t that great but, then again, my spelling wasn’t the best.

How do I use his DUNS # to verify that he is indeed a small business? Can DUNS #’s be exploited for scams? How else can I verify this employer isn’t a scammer? Like how can I make sure the payments for this work are legit? How do I make sure I get paid for a job like this? By the way, it’s a part time job. He says he lives in the UK and comes to the US every 5-6 months. His business does, and I quote, "organize[s] conference[s], seminars, trade shows with group of partners. [Censored for privacy] also engages in Marketing, Advertising, Consultancy and ForEx/Stock management."

Letters or words in brackets [] are edited by me to make it fit my wording. Is this legit? How can you tell?

When searching for a job, most sites warn you to stay away from work from home jobs and stuff like that. However, I do need a job and this part time job seems easy. He seems a bit more legit than a scammer at this point but I want to make sure 100% he’s for real and legit.

And the author of the book:
"The Art of Cheating: A Nasty Little Book for Tricky Little Schemers and Their Hapless Victims," , that is still defending her book as a humourus stocking stuffer?

The book they were using as a semi textbook to pull off these scams?

My question continue here…..
List several scams to steal your personal information. How could this same practice apply to a credit or debit card?
Please can u help me, because it is for my school!

I have a family member who was victimized by one of those email 419 scams. what are legal consequences? best answer 10 points..thanks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_fraud

well what happened was they asked her to deposit money into her account and transer a larger portion..can she be held accountable

Ex-Nasdaq chairman and wall-street broker Bernard L. Madoff has been arrested on Billion fraud charge. This was apparently a ponzi type scheme and could be one of the biggest scams in history. Remind me again why "we the people" are bailing out wall-street!?!?!?Why the hell do we all put up with this?!?!?

my mother started to receive child support payments after my sis and i turned 18 about 900 a month. My mother has been married 7 times and was physically and emotionally abusive to us as we were growing up. I ran away and moved out at 16 and my sis married at 17. Now she is getting this money from my father who i just met online and spending it on my cousin and herself. I had to drop out of college because my place of employment closed and i had no way to take care of the tuition. yes i had financial aid before but it can only take care of basics right now. if i would like to continue my education i would have a doosey of a time while my mom sits back and collects a check every month. I started babysitting at 14 and from then on until i left i had to pay my mom rent to live there. she would charge us for tampons and anything we ever broke as children, bills, thats why we left so early. is it fair that my neglectful mother now just cashes checks? I was afraid most if not all of my life and it is not until now that i feel that she should be obligated to help my sis and i out. i have school loans i am struggling with and she has not given us a penny of what my father has been paying her. it is not fair. There has to be a way to have the payments sent to us and not her because she is just squandering the money instead of helping us. not that i would ever expect my mother to help, she has stolen thousands of dollars from me in different scams. there are even discrepancies on my credit report from her old addresses. how can i report fraud on my mother… i cant be the poor victim anymore and take one thing away from my mother and that is her spite and vindictiveness. please let me know if there is anything i can do. i have seen online other cases where the support is granted to the children. I cant stand to see her squander that money on booze and friends and even my cousin who wants to hang out with her. I am stuck and would love a response.

A friend of mine here in Mobile was taken for ,999 in a very clever scam that involved not just spoofing but the highjacking of another eBay member’s account. I contacted eBay and they will not refund the money because they call it ALL spoofing which they do not cover. My research is indicating this is a major, major problem. Please don’t reply that people deserve to get ripped off if they don’t follow ALL the ebay "guidelines." Some people are young and new to eBay and the Internet and there are apparently not enough warnings on the eBay pages, like graphic images flashing and warning people about the severity of the scams. When a member’s account is highjacked and you have no way of knowing it as a customer then you think you are dealing with a legitimate auction. Any experience, you, family or friends?

I am re-posting this question because YA didn’t post it last time for some reason. I am curious how the criminals go about getting your information and using it against you. What are the most common scams and how do I protect myself from them?

After relocating, I have been conducting a job search in this area and constantly think I am signing up for a job search and it ends up being a phoney offer for online schools, scams and others to get my personal info. Doesn’t any authority regulate what goes on? Geez!

Our govt spends more money on foreign interests and helping illegal immigrants and supporting big business against the wishes of the American citizens and with our tax dollars. How can this continue once we are all out of work. Not to mention victimizing us with all other corruption and scams we sometimes hear about in the controlled media. Where do we finally get a break?

Andy Balogun is a civil and coorperate lawyer and I want to find out if he’s liget. Not a fraud to where he scams on people.

why the charade of constantly giving these crooked business …and we know they are crooked and have larceny in their heats…..why do these politicians give them latitude to make more bad decisions that are against the country’s interests…stealing from tax payers ..and then come back later trying to shame them and say what they should have done?

If they wanted the bailout money to not go to bonuses…why did they simply not put it in black and white and say so?

I am tired of the games…..this feels like a scam….it was a scam with the first bailout and subsequent bailouts are scams too…

Look at AIG..they are even given the bailout money to foreign firms and still planning to give huge bonuses..
I am tired of hearing politicians blaming the business execs when the politicians could have forced them to act right with laws.

One that said I won and just need to provide my name, occupation, etc and I get 8 million in a Nigerian bank account. I wanted to reply that my name was William Radczak, and my occupation is Assistant Director of the FBI’s counter cyber fraud division , and list my number as the FBI’s fraud tip hotline.

What is the harm in replying to these scams?

I have 4 month old twin boys and I would love to stay home with them, but I need to bring in some money to help my husband. What can I d moso? I know there are alot of things, but most are scams, plus I am hesitant about putting money down. I need something legit! I’m not against starting my own business, but doing what? Please respond only if you have good info…no scams! Thanks

sexoffendercheck.com, protectourwomen.com…the notion of screening for priors on online dating seems sensible. But these all require a credit card number. Shouts out "scam" to me…

Know of any good online screening sites that AREN’T scams?

I keep getting these crappy emails that always look like spam or junk that is ok to delete. what prevents that from happening, and which works the best? P.S. help on ads. are they scams?

illegal immigrants carry fake or non-matching identification or Social Security numbers? A lot of immigrants are too afraid to report these scams, and the criminals go on about businesses to prey on more innocent people. Can this be the reason why illegals posses such documents?

Immigration Scams

http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/immigrationscams.html

Anti-Fraud Campaign Against Citizenship Scams Unveiled

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/oct/17/anti-fraud-campaign-against-citizenship-scams-unve/

russia girls that scams americans in the internet?

I am looking to start a business working from home. i am cautious with all the scams on the internet i see and hear about. any suggestions on a legitimate business that i can consider?

i was looking for a work at home job and found a posting on craigslist back in august. it is from an overseas company in new zealand. the company’swebsite is roxychanger.com. they were hiring agents to collect payments in the form of bank wire transfers from their egold buyers. my job would be to receive these payments either by cashiers check or money order or bank wire transfers. Well just yesterday I received a bank wire transfer into my account. Now I am supposed to go to Western Union and wire the money back out to some company after deducting my 5% commission and fees. I called the bank to see if the money they wired in is clear and the bank confirms it is clear. Is this legal? I heard of scams where you receive a money order or cashiers check in which you cash it and then wire the money back out, weeks later the check is fraud..then the bank would hold you responsible…but what I am getting is cash in my account..this must be real, right? please advice what i should do next.
today i went on craigslist and searched under scams and there seems to be a lot of scams of wire transfer sorts. but most involve you cashing a fake check…not someone wiring money into your account. also i checked the company’s website..it no longer exists

Schemes, Scams, Fraud etc ?? is it the FCC ?
I meant who polices or monitors corrupt internet activity for business fraud- and if this stuff is allowed, no policing, then we are not as homeland secured as people are led to believe. And the perpetrators have seeped into our bedrooms and leaves the consumers with their pants down. We are not protected.

For their failure to follow through on the payment of wages? Nothing was agreed to in writing but verbally and work was performed. The company is bogus..globalfinancialsolutions.org The guy, J. W. Pugh real name Darrell Pugh uses virtual meeting locations, Craig’s list etc to do his recruitment. He has scams running in Florida (St.Petersburg, Miami, and Tampa) New York and there are complaints at the BBB for him in California. Meeting and interacting, he seems genuine and reputable. Beware!
I’m thinking since the guy is a scam artist he will not want the hassle and pay the owed wages. But then again.. to run a scam like this you don’t care about your reputation. It just infuriates we that someone can get away with something like this! Any assistance would be appreciated.

i was wondering if there were a few sites you could name that are a scams on ‘how to make money off of the internet’ kind of thing.

I already received five similar scams in the internet,first in the random lottery thru my e-mail ad,second from Christian Aid Org.,third from invoice random picks,fourth from a firm convincing me to inherit and last from a certain VITTORI org.

I have come across two very attractive profiles of ladies apparently from Australia wanting assistance to arrive home from Nigeria. Are they all scams & how can you tell ? Ever heard of Linda Lopez or Vanessa Johnson ?