Scam companys! I tell you my experience. (ctoc.co.uk/homeworking_work_from_home.htm)

Member Name: taliabienvenu

Product:	ctoc.co.uk/homeworking_work_from_home.htm
Date:	15/04/02 (222 review reads)
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Advantages: Letting people know what to look out for!

Disadvantages: Being scammed

Scams are everywhere these days, if you unfortunate enough to come across one like I did then you?ll understand.

In my experience of scams, the company I.S Trading or I.S Enterprise was to blame, I saw an advert in the paper for home workers and thought I?d give it ago. I eagerly sent off for the information and awaited the reply. When it came it asked me for a registration fee of £25 as a one off payment. It promised cash in hand for jobs like envelope stuffing, writing. I sent off the cheque and went off to post it the next day (saturday).

By Sunday I was having real doubts about the company and had a look on the internet to find out about scams etc. Sure enough many websites came up telling me about all the scams and the wording used to scam people. I knew it was a scam then and phoned my bank Monday morning to cancel/stop the cheque.

I rang the company I.S Trading or I.S Enterprise in the evening to tell them not to bother cashing my cheque as I no longer needed the work. When I rang some rude man answered and was not interested in talking to me at all once I told him I wasn?t interested in working now. He got confused and said that if I didn?t want to do the work then when I received my membership to send it back and I?d get my money back. I told him that don?t have to as I?ve stopped the cheque. He angrily told me that I would get charged for stopping the cheque. But I never did, and they still tried to cash the cheque later that week.

I was lucky enough to cancel the cheque in time, but some of the stories I?ve heard people were not so lucky. I am really annoyed about this company and just want to let everyone know so they are more aware than I was, I mostly felt stupid for falling for the scam in the first place.

Although there are genuine jobs working at home, many are bogus. You should not have to pay to get work. Never send money in advance to people or companies who claim they can offer you work at home. The
se con tricks may start with an advert in a newspaper or a shop window, or on a local bus, or with a leaflet through your door.

Examples:
Adverts about addressing and stuffing envelopes: these are generally followed by a demand for a registration fee. All you get for your money is advice to place adverts like the one you saw. There is no real job. Just a scam to con you out of the registration fee.

Adverts asking for money for home assembly kits: these scams promise your money back and pay for making up the goods. You won't get your money back. You will be told that the goods are not up to standard or given some other excuse. The people behind the scheme never intended to pay you from the start.

Work is hard enough as it is, without predatory 'outfits' robbing unwitting applicants of their so-called 'application/registration fees'. When it comes to the field of outworking/homeworking the oft-quoted Gordon Gecko-style soundbyte 'speculate to accumulate' just does not apply. In fact, that kind of speculation has led to those seeking home-work becoming worse off, both in terms of finance and - equally importantly - self-esteem.

Don't forget that your local JobCentre will also be a good starting point in your search for work from home. According to a spokesperson from Trading Standards, there is just one fundamental rule you should stick to, 'avoid jobs with advertisements that ask for money.' Sadly, statistics show that the most vulnerable members of society are still lured into these schemes: principally the unemployed, the disabled, single parents and mothers at home with young children.

Thankfully, there is a growing number of organisations that are doing their bit to promote general awareness of homeworking scams, and help people find genuine paid work from home. For further information and advice on outworking/homeworking advertisements that ask for money contact the Nationa
l Group on Homeworking's Helpline on 0800 274095. Alternatively you can visit their site to read about the variety of scams that are around, at www.gn.apc.org/homeworking/scams.html. Homeworking.com also has a comprehensive library of outworking/homeworking scams (www.homeworking.com/library/examples.htm.)

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