Scambuster:
Scambuster has had a good amount of experience with secret shopping, or mystery shopping as it is also called.  Be very careful and research any offer you find in an ad on the internet, and be even more careful and skeptical of job offers that spam your email box.  A legitimate company would not have to spam people's email boxes to find recruits.

Beware of Letters Or Internet Postings Offering Quick Returns for Cashing a Check

A Recent Mystery Shopping Scam was busted

If you seriously want to become a secret shopper, there is one source on the internet that you can use to find legitimate jobs.  Yes, you have to look for them; legitimate secret shopper jobs do not come to you on their own.  I t is very hard to earn a full time income from this, but you can earn a good part time income or supplemental income.  Go to THIS WEBSITE.  You will find everything you need there, and it will not cost you anything.  Read the help articles in the links on the right hand menu before you sign up with any companies.  A list of scheduling companies are on THIS PAGE.  I have had personal contact with several of them, and they do pay!

Scambuster:
I think you are correct in being cautious.  Something doesn't smell quite right here.  You have to pay $2500 to get a loan?  When I ask for a loan, I expect to get money; not give money up front.  So in effect you are only getting a $22,500 loan, but you don't even get that unless you send them $2,500.  The normal procedure is to loan money to you first then you will pay it back with interest.  Why should you pay 10% interest on money you have not received.  Check it out thoroughly.  Google the company, Mr. West, and any other contacts you have been given.  It smells rotten to me.

Startraffic.net responded by telling me that IF I DID REPORT THEM THAT THEY, AN INTERNET MARKETING COMPANY, WOULD UNDERTAKE A MASSIVE CAMPAIGN AGAINST MY COMPANY!!!

WHAT?!?!?!  Isn't that EXTORTION???!!!  I, their paying customer, have a legitimate complaint and request proof of their services, which they will not provide, or a refund based on their "money back guarantee" and they REFUSE TO DO EITHER but threaten my company with liablist, slanderous, contrived who knows what if I make any derogatory reports about Startraffic.net.

I reminded them that what they had already done constituted extortion but I never heard anything back, never got a penny back and never got any verification of Startraffic.net ever mailing one email for my $489.00.

Startraffic.net REFUSES to honor their money back guarantee. Startraffic REFUSES to offer any sort of proof that they executed the 2 campaigns I paid for. Startraffic.net was woefully inefficient at getting my ads ready in a timely manner. When they said they had them ready for me to proof they COULD NOT GET AN EMAIL THROUGH TO ME. I sent them four separate email addresses and they kept making excuses about why their emails weren't getting through to ANY of the emails I provided. After about six weeks of excuses I told them I wanted to cancel because, number one, I wanted these ads out OVER A MONTH AGO. Number 2, I had lost confidence in an Email Marketing company that I paid almost $500.00 to send out 200,000 email ads that couldn't even get an email through to me at FOUR SEPARATE ADDRESSES.

 When I informed them I wished to cancel they told me they had already sent the advertising out. THE ADVERTISING WAS NEVER PROOFED OR AUTHORIZED. It was PAID FOR, just not yet authorized.  I paid nearly $500.00 for Advertising that I never got to proof, never authorized and was well over a month late. I asked for records of the emailing and they said they had them but after three request, I have never seen one.

AVOID STARTRAFFIC.NET like the plague unless you have money to throw away. I threw mine away by TRUSTING startraffic to live up to their promises. Not only did Startraffic take my money but they have NEVER given me ANY verification that they sent out ONE email. I've asked and they have said they can PROVE they completed the mailings for 2 campaigns for almost $500.00. They have a MONEY BACK GUARANTEE and promise all sorts of other perks but they do NOT follow through. I don't think they even follow through with the email advertising I paid for. They say they have but I've requested some sort of verification, actually they said they had verification, and I've requested it three times but all I get are excuses. No RESULTS and certainly no MONEY BACK from their GUARANTEE.

Startraffic.net may have a new owner. ME!!  I'm having an attorney look into getting my money back and, since he's already retained, looking into filing a lawsuit for fraud, misrepresentation and extortion. If they do follow through with their threats to "ruin my business with a massive internet campaign", I will certainly own startraffic.net and any other tangible assets of the company and the members that participated in their illegal acts.

I will continue to spread the word of MY PERSONAL negative experiences with Startraffic.net until they refund my payment. I've waited empty handed long enough for any verification that they provided the services I paid them for and , frankly, I don't think I would trust any document I received from them. That is IF they can get an email through.

Scambuster:
A former girlfriend of my son did this as her sole employment.  She typed medical transcripts at home on her computer.  However, she did go to school to learn this, and she disciplined herself to work at least 40 hours a week at it.  She did make several hundred dollars a week, and she was a fast typist (125 wpm).  There are some websites you might want to check out for more information.  These links will open in a new  window.  http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/102193/the_truth_about_work_from_home_data.html

You might also type 'where can i get a good work at home data entry job?' into a search engine, but you will have to sort through the scams, advertisements, and many of them are nothing more than signing up to be an affiliate to promote someone else's program.  Have you thought of making a website blog?  Just write daily updates about a subject that interests you, and use it to make money from Google's Adwords.  Do a search on 'Google Adwords' for more information on this.  Bottom line:  you can make money by working at home using your computer to enter data, but you will still have to work to make money.  However, you will be your own boss, don't have to get dressed to go to work, don't have to fight traffic to drive to work, set your own hours, don't have to give notice to take a vacation, etc.

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