Question by BigDaddy148: What are good websites to find online jobs for free, and not scams?
Looking for an online job to do from home and not have to pay to get the job. Trying to avoid scams.
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Question by Amy: Do you think if the media brought online scams to attention more, would it stop?
All the classic scams going from my wife left me and I’m raising my son alone -to- the active/well known “soldier scam” of lonely women believing that a guy they don’t know is in love with them and needs their money. Do you think if newspapers, tv, internet and magazines talked more about these, do you think many of these future victims or current victims would stop falling for these? Or?
Now I know it’s not regulars who are being scammed on here, I’m just curious.
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Answer by Kittysue How much more media attention could there be? These scams have been reported for more than 10 years on the news, on blogs, in newspapers, on Oprah, on Dateline, etc and people still keep falling for them.
Google online romance scam and there are over 12 million hits
so I don’t know how many more warnings can be issued. There is so much info out there but people just choose to ignore it, then wonder why they got scammed
A friend’s mom lost almost $ 8000 to an internet scammer and would not listen to anyone that she was being scammed. Even when presented with proof she tried to accuse her daughter of being jealous because she found a handsome younger man who was better looking than her daughter’s husband. It wasn’t until her daughter showed her an email sent from the Embassy in Nigeria that there was NO such thing as a BTA to leave Nigeria, no American by that name who had ever been granted a visa to Nigeria, and the company he claimed to work for did not even exist. But that was $ 8000 too late
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