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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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