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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.
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