Here’s a scam I have not seen before. This one is particularly slick. The guy takes the time to reach you on a personal level, empathize with your frustrations over scam sites and pitch this program as the answer to your prayers. As it turns out, this guy is doing the same thing those other scammers are doing…pulling on your heart strings to get you to fork over money.
This is a data entry scam. I am showing you this here as the perfect lesson in what to look out for in a scam. Here are the elements that make this offer sketchy:
- Long-form landing page – Copywriters should recognize this page for what it is right off the bat. Way more text than is needed to explain what the offer is, described from every possible angle. With so many people desperate to work from home, why would anyone need more than a paragraph or two to explain what the job is?
- Too good to be true – Making $300 to $3,000 per day for data entry? Who’s he aiming this at? Third-world residents who have no idea how much an American makes? Honestly, the lowest paid jobs (like data entry) pay about $50 per day. Why on earth would anyone pay you six times the prevailing wage for a job that anyone with a pulse can do?
- Offering valuable items for free – This is a common copywriting and sales technique. Pump up your offer with tons of free stuff.
- Price Cut – The offer starts out at $99 per month but is now offering for $49.95 per month. Sound like a fire sale to you? Why is this guy so desperate in a situation where thousands would be dying to join this program if it was as good as it sounded?
Here’s the thing. Many programs like this are technically “legitimate” because they do give you the information you need to make money online. The problem: it’s not data entry. It’s affiliate marketing. All this information is already available online for free. Why pay for it? Also, they make it sound so easy, but the amount of work is enormous. Data entry is a simple job where you are given text to put in a computer. With OCR technology there isn’t even need for data entry workers anymore. Computers can read handwriting now.
My Data Team is just teaching you how to do affiliate marketing, a niche that is already crowded, very hard to break into and only pays a lot to those who are experts. When an offer is nothing more than a tutorial, it should clearly state that. It should also be honest about what the job really is. It’s not simply data entry, it’s complicated affiliate marketing.
I didn’t need to even research My Data Team to know it was a scam. But just to back up what I’m telling you here, I did a little digging. The BBB award winner claim on the website is total garbage. Notice there is no actual BBB symbol on the site? Here’s what the Better Business Bureau has to say about it:
Mis-use of BBB Name by My Data Team
Based on BBB files this company is currently displaying Better Business Award Winner on their website www.mydatateam.com. This company is not an Accredited Business with our BBB; furthermore we do not issue awards. The company has failed to remove the wording from their website when demands have been made to do so.
If the company lies about BBB, what else is it lying about? Probably everything! Hope you didn’t fall for this one!
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