Beware! Of "Work from home" Wolf Tickets
New job seekers and veterans are buying them every day. What are
they? "Wolf tickets", better known as lies, false promises,
scams. The strategies of saling them is becoming more clever
everyday, infact they are much more clever than when I first
started seeking work from home. I remember it like it was
yesterday. Reading the ad, and sending my payment to start
working from home. The first couple of weeks were filled with
anxiousness, eagerness and anticipation. As the 3rd week came a
sinking feeling begin to creep into my stomach, but I was still
trying to hold on to hope as I checked the mail box everyday.
Finally as the fourth week came and went, a feeling of
disappointment overwhelmed me, followed by stress and anger as I
begin to think about how some one had tricked me and took my
money.
That was 1993, like many of you; I bought these lies many times
since then, always hoping that this one would be the one. I'm
sure the majority of home based job seekers have experienced all
these feelings, and if you haven't hopefully you never will. I
was 19 yrs old when I bought my first wolf ticket, to process
HUD refunds at home, they made it sound so simple and easy all I
needed to do was send $40.00 for materials, but this money would
be making a round trip, because I was suppose get it back plus
the extra money I made when I started working. The tactic that
the scammer used here is called Profiting from Power--Scammers
will often use some kind of powerful company or agency like the
government or Better Business Bureau in their ad, to deceive you
into thinking they are a credible company.
2 more Wolf Ticket Tactics
* 2nd Tactic - Screening for Serious Candidates Only Tactic:
This tactic is usually found at the end of the ad, it is made to
appeal to your intelligence. It comes in the form of a
registration, membership, or application fee. The following are
2 examples of how the sales pitch may be worded--
a. We must charge this one time fee to insure you're serious in
joining our program. Please understand we can not give access to
just anyone just to satisfy their own curiosity. Our company
will not charge you anymore fees. Once there are enough data
entry workers, we may discontinue this offer at anytime.
b. We can ONLY allow so many members to do this work. Positions
are very Limited IN ORDER TO GET STARTED IMMEDIATELY AND RECEIVE
YOUR program, we require a one-time only registration fee of
only $37 the one-time registration fee covers the cost of
materials. Although we would like to send you our program
without the small fee, we must protect ourselves. No business
can afford to send out costly materials to everyone who asks for
it. This small fee assures us that you are serious about wanting
to earn money from home.
* 3rd Tactic - Milk You Till You're Dry Tactic: Before the
internet, you would order your work from home kit. After,
waiting for the mail person and sprinting to the mail box
everyday, it finally arrives. You tare open the huge white
envelope and there it is about ten sheets of paper stapled
together, with a homemade cover. Thinking this can't be it--you
turn the envelope upside down and shake it. Accepting that this
is it, You read it from cover to cover thinking you must have
missed the section that tells you how to start, You read the
last page again, your eyes zoom in on an invitation to send
$25.00 for your start up kit and then the next time there's an
even better reason to send more money and it goes on and on.
Now, that the technology of the internet is here, scams now
consist of paying an application fee; then after the application
fee you need to pay a fee for the training material that will be
sent via email as soon as you enter your credit card number into
the order form. No, this is not up-selling, up-selling consist
of the customer getting the product or service they paid for,
then being offered another product or service to complement or
give the original purchase added value. Please do not confuse
this tactic with a legal business practice. It's the same milk
you till you're dry tactic, but they are able to get your money
quicker, and you can't turn the computer upside down and shake
it.
Today, Scammers are able to conceal there identities even more
and reach an even wider source of people to prey on. Scammers
have always had the same target market-- they prey on; College
Students, Senior Citizens, Moms and the disabled. Their biggest
target market is stay at home moms, but in recent years this
group has become schooled on scams, and have developed a network
among each other to make sure one doesn't slide by. With moms
being equipped to fight scams, scammers are now trying to
slither into the wallets of a new target.
There are 3 steps to resisting wolf tickets.
* Avoid
* Identify
* Report
Just remember--(AIR) because that's what scammers are full of.
Follow along with me in Wolf Tickets Part 2 as I break each word
down for you and reveal the new target of Wolf Tickets.