Is this a scam?

febes

If you google work-fromhome@hotmail.co.uk you will find a Home Typist/Data Entry Clerk position. I am unable to post the link as I am a new user. Sorry!

I found this whilst looking for admin jobs which I could do from home. I got a quick response. I was told that I have to pay £5.99 through paypal to get my training materials.

I cannot find any information on the web about the 'employer'. Should I pay the £5.99? It is not much, but I don't want to be scammed........AGAIN!

So I guess I am asking if any of you had dealt with these before and had a positive/negative experience?

Any other advice?

geordie_joe

If you have to pay up front then it's a scam.

You'll probably find that the training materials tell you to post adverts on other web sites and sell the training materials for £5.99

lucylucky

I am always wary of anything that uses a generic hotmail/yahoo/googlemail etc account for business.

febes

lucylucky, I am just like you. I said to my fiance I was a bit wary as it is a hotmail account. He doesn't mind if I go for it as it is 'only £6' but when you are scraping the financial barrel as it is, £6 is a lot!

PhylPho

febes wrote: »

lucylucky, I am just like you. I said to my fiance I was a bit wary as it is a hotmail account. He doesn't mind if I go for it as it is 'only £6' but when you are scraping the financial barrel as it is, £6 is a lot!

Well if a couple of thousand people think the same way -- "it's only £6" -- then that's another low-life richer for his / her abiding faith in the gullibility of humankind.

Don't even be "wary", febes. An operation that cannot afford even a business email is an operation neither you nor anyone else can afford to waste their time on.