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		<title>Good News for Online Dating Users: Scam-free Dating Website Will be Your Savior</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Tired of online dating? Haven&#8217;t found your love yet? The scam-free dating website will help you find your perfect match with little worry. Millionaire Cupid is the first website which can exclaim the whole website is scam free and all users on the website are safe and secure.</p>
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<p>According to Jerry Will, CEO of the millionaire dating <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.ripoffsscams.com/good-news-for-online-dating-users-scam-free-dating-website-will-be-your-savior">Good News for Online Dating Users: Scam-free Dating Website Will be Your Savior</a></span>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tired of online dating? Haven&#8217;t found your love yet? The scam-free dating website will help you find your perfect match with little worry. Millionaire Cupid is the first website which can exclaim the whole website is scam free and all users on the website are safe and secure.</p>
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<p>According to Jerry Will, CEO of the millionaire dating website, this website is always on changing to provide the neediest service to users. &#8220;The dating scam is the most headache problem for online daters. Many singles are afraid of trying the online dating just because they don&#8217;t want to be scammed or cheated.&#8221;, said Jerry, &#8220;Now the condition is changed. Our users will not feel unsafe since we do all the left things for them. We remove all the unqualified profiles before our users can see them. We&#8217;d rather have less profiles in quantity, but the profiles on our website should be of high quality.&#8221; At the end of our talk, he told us: &#8220;To bring more people together, our service is open to all users for free. Everyone can check and answer emails as well as chat messages with our members without pay. This guideline will not change for ever.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Sounds incredible? We checked this website and found some differences from other dating websites: <br />I) This website do not accept registrations from IP address with proxy server. It tells clearly that any registration through a proxy server will be banned for ever.<br />II) This website do not accept the registration if the location and IP address are not consistent. E.G. If your IP address is from London and you put your location in New York, your account will be banned. <br />III) This website do not accept users from some countries which are notable for scammers. E.G. Nigerian, Philippine, Ukraine, etc. I saw a Philippine visitor posted such a comment on the website: &#8220;I can&#8217;t open your website any more, and I contacted my ISP and they told me they couldn&#8217;t open your website either. What&#8217;s wrong with your site?&#8221; The answer from the website is simple: &#8220;We got too many abusive users from your location. We regret that we can&#8217;t serve users in your location any more.&#8221;</p>
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<p>With such measures, we can believe very few wicked users can become a member. Let alone the following additional ways which will make scammers can&#8217;t stay even if they can have a profile. <br />I) This website provides photo verification, age verification, occupation verification as well as income verification. The complicate verification systems will make the verified users get 10 times more responses. Of course, everyone on this website knows that they should contact verified users rather than unverified users. In short, if you want to date, if you want to meet someone, you need to make your information verified. Otherwise, your profile is not trustful and users may never communicate with you even though you started a conversation. This website is very strict for the verification. I tried to verify my photo with a false document by test. The result is: my account is banned. The customer service team replied to me with just one sentence: &#8220;We do not accept members who are not serious.&#8221;<br />II) If a user is suspicious of someone, he can report to the website with just one click. The customer service team is also responsible. They will investigate carefully. They may give you a phone call if they need additional details which are not included in your report. I believe very few dating websites will call users for users&#8217; problems. But this website did it.</p>
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<p>More than 80% Americans have tried to find their perfect lovers online. Many of them didn&#8217;t find the right person online just because many websites are not quality enough to provide a stable and reliable service. We hope more and more websites can provide such services following the nice example of MillionaireCupid.com.</p>
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		<title>Scamfree Work at Home Jobs and Online Scam Busters That Will Save You a Bundle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Like clockwork, every morning I scan my favorite online news sources to update myself on the &#8220;goings-on&#8221; of the world. Yesterday was no different. More bailouts, bungles and blunders. Hmm&#8230;seemed not much had really changed overnight. Then my eye caught an ad embedded in a story about the dismal state of the global economy.
<p>Headline read, &#8220;Scam-Free <span style="color:#777"> . . . &#8594; Read More: <a href="http://www.ripoffsscams.com/scamfree-work-at-home-jobs-and-online-scam-busters-that-will-save-you-a-bundle">Scamfree Work at Home Jobs and Online Scam Busters That Will Save You a Bundle</a></span>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like clockwork, every morning I scan my favorite online news sources to update myself on the &#8220;goings-on&#8221; of the world. Yesterday was no different. More bailouts, bungles and blunders. Hmm&#8230;seemed not much had really changed overnight. Then my eye caught an ad embedded in a story about the dismal state of the global economy.
<p>Headline read, &#8220;Scam-Free Work at Home Jobs! No Experience Necessary! Act now!&#8221;</p>
<p>That got me thinking, how many people actually fall for these ads? You know those blatant, in-your-face ads with claims that can&#8217;t be true and &#8220;call to actions&#8221; that force you to stop whatever you&#8217;re doing to give full attention to this &#8220;once-in-a-lifetime offer.&#8221;</p>
<p>Let me ask you. Have you ever forked out money for something that sounded like a good product or service to someone who seemed like a nice person and avoided that nagging voice in your head that said, &#8220;Sounds too good to be true!?&#8221;</p>
<p>You did?</p>
<p>Then what happened? Let me guess. You get the product. It&#8217;s not even close to what was described, doesn&#8217;t do half of what the expert testimonials claimed it would. And, you know that 100% money-back guarantee? It isn&#8217;t worth a dime when the seller goes AWOL.</p>
<p>Then anxiety rushes in and you realize &#8211; scam, internet&#8230;I&#8217;ve been had.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll let you in on a little secret. You&#8217;re not alone. A lot of people fall for those ads&#8230;hardworking, sensible people who for the most part aren&#8217;t looking to become millionaires. They just want a little slice of their own pie, to take control of their life and provide a comfortable lifestyle for their family.</p>
<p>But the truth is, people do fall for the ads. That&#8217;s why scammers keep running them. And people keep falling for them. And admittedly, I&#8217;ve fallen for them myself.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see, there was that home business membership site that was pitched to make you millions and when I finally got the chance to peek inside (after forking over more than a $1000), there was nothing there. No articles, no content, nada&#8230;in fact the only thing that was there was an affiliate link to sign up other suckers like me.</p>
<p>And then there was the year-long &#8220;search engine domination&#8221; service using Web 2.0 methods, promising never-before released marketing techniques and new content added to the site throughout the year. Sure, there was content added to this &#8220;bare bones&#8221; website, but much of it was generated by users trying out the techniques. Occasionally, there was a lame &#8220;inspirational&#8221; 5 minute audio clip recorded in the guru&#8217;s car as he was off to put together another deal. Oh, brother. But I should have known something was up when during that first mastermind the &#8220;guru&#8221; explained call protocol&#8230;absolutely no negative comments or the call would end immediately.</p>
<p>How stupid could I be? Turns out, pretty stupid. It wasn&#8217;t enough that I wasted $1500 on this pathetic excuse for a mastermind program, but what really took the cake was when he took an additional $500 from my PayPal account (which I later recovered).</p>
<p>And then there&#8217;s the countless other home business programs stacked up in my office, doing nothing but gathering dust.</p>
<p>So what have I learned over the years that will keep you from becoming a victim to another online home business scam? What can you do to ensure that the next work at home job opportunities pitch is scam-free?</p>
<p>Scam-free Work at Home Jobs Checklist</p>
<p>1. Get to know the Seller</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with the group that&#8217;s pitching the business opportunity or work at home job, make sure you do some online research. Using your favorite search engine, type in the name of the seller and see what results come back. You can also type in the seller&#8217;s name plus the word &#8220;feedback.&#8221; Visit forums and blogs in the related industry. Post questions. Ask webmasters. Typically, people are more than happy to provide advice and feedback.</p>
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<p>2. Verify Contact Information</p>
<p>Look for a contact link in the navigation menu or in the footer. Legitimate companies have links to real contact information including an email address, business address and phone number. Is there an email address; what kind is it? Be careful if it is a gmail, yahoo, hotmail or other free email account. Legitimate companies usually have their own domain (e.g., businessname.com) though it is no guarantee of legitimacy.</p>
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<p>3. Know What You&#8217;re Getting</p>
<p>Request a sneak peek of what you&#8217;re buying. If it&#8217;s an information product, ask to see a sample. If it&#8217;s an ebook, ask for the table of contents. If it&#8217;s an online service or software, maybe there&#8217;s a demo, a trial, or a video review.</p>
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<p>4. Pay Using Installments</p>
<p>Frequently more expensive products offer the option of paying with installments. If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with what you&#8217;re buying or from whom you are buying, always choose this option. Although you may end up paying a bit more than the one payment price, it gives you the chance of seeing what you&#8217;re buying, before you risk the entire amount on a product that doesn&#8217;t measure up.</p>
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<p>5. Effectively Manage PayPal Subscriptions</p>
<p> If you&#8217;re paying by installments and using PayPal, make sure you cancel the subscription after the final installment. If not, this leaves you open to the risk of unauthorized additional installments taken from your account.</p>
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<p>6. Don&#8217;t Use PayPal if Unfamiliar With the Seller or Service</p>
<p>The dispute process is always much easier and the outcome usually much better when you dispute charges with credit card companies vs. PayPal. I don&#8217;t know why. Maybe it&#8217;s because credit card companies have been at it longer; the process is predictable, straightforward. Although PayPal is a great service, this is definitely an area where it needs to improve.</p>
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<p>7. Contact When Seller is Unresponsive to Your Complaints</p>
<p> * Better Business Bureau &#8211; http://bbb.org</p>
<p> * USPS Fraud Inspection Service &#8211; http://www.usps.com/postalinspectors/fraud/</p>
<p> * Federal Trade Commission &#8211; http://ftc.gov</p>
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<p>If you&#8217;re unable to find the seller&#8217;s contact information (which you&#8217;ll need to file a report with the above agencies), try your PayPal receipt or call PayPal directly, search the WhoIs Lookup (which provides information on domain ownership), review emails you might have received from the guru, or search for the seller&#8217;s name using your favorite search engine.</p>
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<p>The #1 guaranteed way of never becoming a victim to a job or business opportunity scam again &#8211; know from whom you are buying. If you do your homework and take the necessary steps as outlined above, you can be virtually certain that the &#8220;scam-free&#8221; work at home jobs you are considering are just that&#8230;scam-free. &#13;
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<p>Since 1997 Susan Smith has been writing about homebased business and scam-free <a rel="nofollow" href="http://wwork.com" target="_blank">home based work</a>. She is co-founder of Women&#8217;s Work &#8211; the site for women who mean business, an award-winning site which offers advice, tips, and resources to women who are interested in homebased business opportunities and work from home jobs.  For more information check out the Women&#8217;s Work video and additional information on <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blog.wwork.com/women-business/scam-free-work-at-home-jobs/">scam free work at home jobs</a>. And don&#8217;t forget to grab the free report &#8220;4 Letter Killer &#8211; How a 4 Letter Word is Stealing Your Success?and How a 6 Letter Word can Save Your Future!&#8221;</p>
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