Beware The Scammers
It really doesn’t matter what you do: painting, writing, reporting, engineering. Out there, somewhere, is the scam artist to end all scam artists, waiting to take your enthusiasm and turn it into a profit that you will never see.
My friend Helen will not stop banging on about it, so in the interest of living a peaceful existence with much less hassle, I have agreed to write a blog post about it. Just remember, it’s Helen, not me.
1) The scammers are evil, and they will stop at nothing to convince you that it is a real job. So my advice is this: when you reply to an ad and get a similarly polite – enthusiastic, even – reply back, beware. Read that email until you are blue in the face to make sure it is legitimate, and even better…
2) …Do a Google search on that letter: this is the only true way to make sure it’s not a scam…Providing other people have posted the letter online, of course.
3) Never work for free: if they say they want three or four samples, then obviously that’s a no-no too. But it’s amazing the amount of people who WILL actually write the samples. Hard to believe but it happens every single day..
4) The phone is there for a reason, so use it: there’s no harm in you picking up the phone and actually talking to a real person at Graphic and Art Supplies London, or wherever it is. If they suddenly aren’t too keen on the idea then wait a minute, you need to start thinking What’s going on here, then?
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