Daily Consumer Tips Review- Online Scam or Not?

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Working at home is becoming increasingly common, especially since doing so allows people more time to spend with their families. For the most part, there are many ways for an individual to work from the comfort of their home, especially since many work-from-home jobs are online. However, there are numerous work from home jobs that may sound legitimate and end up being anything but. Daily Consumer Tips is one of those less-than-legitimate work from home ideas. While it looks like a site where an individual can make a considerable amount of money by simply applying for one of the many posts that promise easy and lucrative work, such is simply not the case.

Look Closer…

Daily Consumer Tips may seem harmless at first glance, especially since their posts are listed in a somewhat professional manner. In fact, it looks like reviews for different online jobs that an individual may apply for. However, these posts utilize eye-catching headlines to grab the reader’s attention and lure unsuspecting, job-seeking people in. The text posted on the website is worded in such a way that it draws people into signing up for things that they will never benefit from. In fact, the information on the site simply leads to numerous information phishing scams, multi-level marketing and pyramid schemes. These schemes collect peoples’ information and distribute it to other advertisers and in the instances that ask for credit card information, that credit card number will be stolen by a piece of key-logging software embedded in the site.

The Clues & Signs Of A Scam

There are many ways that an individual can protect themselves from falling for such a scam. The first thing to watch out for is the headlines, for if they include a large dollar amount and a line such as “Single Mother Earns…” that is a sign that the offer is far from legitimate. The checks posted on the site are simply mock-ups of what a large check looks like; they are created in a graphic design program. The people who fall for these scams never receive a single penny. While there are many positive reviews about the programs being offered, these reviews are not unbiased employee reviews, they are written by the site’s creator and spun using software to change the wording slightly. These reviews are used as another form of bait to lure unsuspecting people into doing something that will not benefit them in any way.

Be Prepared To Pay More

Once an individual falls for the scam, they will be required to purchase a “package” before they can start work. No legitimate job requires anyone to purchase goods or services prior to employment– and these “goods” are usually an E-Book that explains the way that the scam is operated, but phrases it in such a way that people are lead into believing that the job is legitimate. The “packages” vary in price from a couple of dollars to upwards of twenty dollars or more, depending on the program that is currently being advertised.

Sneaky Local Marketing Tactic

Daily Consumer Tips’s most nefarious tactics include creating a fictional character to present the website as a way to create rapport with interested individuals. The person portrayed is never a real individual and their story is always completely falsified. The website has software that determines an individual’s location in order to “tailor” the information posted to catch the reader’s interest. Someone living in Florida will see the same exact text as someone in California, only with the city and state names changed. This is done in an attempt to make the offer seem more legitimate and coax people into signing up– the reader’s state is the only honest information on a completely dishonest website.