by Jonathan Paston

The Data Entry Scam is very similar to the typing scams except, in my opinion, these are worse, and I will explain why. The point is, if you see any ads at all that say “data entry” read the fine print very carefully because it may just be a Google Adwords in disguise.

I remember the first time I saw a data entry job ad. It said that I could make $3,000 a week doing data entry from home just by filling in a few forms. Now, right away my scam alert radar went off. I knew there was no way you could make that kind of money doing data entry. How do I know? I used to do data entry years ago, and the going rate back then was about $15 an hour. Even if they paid $25 an hour and you worked a 40 hour week, that?s only $1,000 a week. And trust me, that was more than just filling in a few forms. Something just didn?t add up. So I went to the site and checked it out very carefully.

Now fortunately, by this time, I was an established marketer and pretty much knew what was out there. I was a Clickbank affiliate, had an Adwords and Adsense account and knew how these things worked. So imagine my surprise when I went to this “data entry” site. What I saw there just shocked the heck out of me.

One of the ‘pulls’ these sites love is to show you proof of income for just filling in a few forms. So I scrolled down to the income proof. But before I got to it, I saw a diagram of one of the forms that you had to fill out. I did a double take. I knew I had seen it somewhere before. Then it hit me.

It was a Google Adwords form.

Okay, how was this data entry? Anyway, I kept going until I got to the income proof. Well, this I recognized right away, even with all the things they blacked out. It was a Clickbank payment screen. And then I knew. They were promoting Google Adwords to sell Clickbank products as data entry. Excuse me, how is this data entry?

Well, I started to do a little more digging. Guess what I found? This site was actually part of the Clickbank marketplace of products. Well, I kept digging and found tons of products all promoting the same thing, “data entry” jobs.

The staggering part of it all was that I found 14 sites in the Clickbank marketplace that were promoting these “data entry” schemes. I wrote to Clickbank about these fraudulent sites but of course they didn?t do anything about them.

Some of the sites have changed their advertising methods when I personally wrote to them and told them that they were not being truthful about what they were saying. But there are still plenty of sites out there that still pull this crap.

So, if you see any sites promoting “data entry jobs” look real close to see if any of those screen prints are Google Adwords forms or Clickbank payment screens.

Don?t worry, you can’t miss them.