Online credit card fraud is increasing thanks to get rich quick schemes being advertised all over the web. With unemployment hovering near 10%, these ads are attracting a whole new audience of deperate Americans.
Of particular note are the omnipresent ads for Google links and government grants. In the case of the Google ads, the advertiser promises to send you information on how to make $5000 per month posting links on Google and only wants $1.98 for shipping and handling. The grant ads promise much the same and again just want a small shipping and handling fee.
What most people do not see, is in the terms and conditions you have opted in to a number of monthly subscriptions that, depending on the number of advertisers in the scheme, can total close to $100 per month. These memberships are automatically applied to the credit card that you used to pay the shipping and handling fees of the original requested information.
Besides enrolling you in worthless monthly subscriptions, your phone number, email address and home address are sold to direct marketers. Shortly after you make your order your phone will start ringing off the hook with calls from telemarketers selling other work at home scams. Spam will have a new meaning as your inbox receives nearly 100 junk emails a day,...
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