January 2, 2008

Who's misleading who here?

Q: I have been ripped off so many times that i do not take anyones word on any program.

Now i check things out for my self with the BBB and Internet online crime.

I did find out that all of the typing and data work is owned and operated by one company, such as Data entry made easy, type4dollrs ect, these alone have had 456 complaints within the last 36 months, so please do mislead people by saying they are great programs, because they are not.

Iam yet to find an hones person who is up front with the truth of what they offer, i am searching for an opportunity to make money now not buy some another useless ebook to teach me a bunch of junk.

So if you know of a great program please let me know, but i will check them out with the BBB, FBI's internet crime, Federal Trade Commission and Yahoos Corop Offices.

A:

Hi, it seems that you have my site confused with some other site, which explains why you might be easily mislead if you're not able to keep various sites straight in your mind.

We've never recommended any of the sites your talking about. We have analyzed their sales letters for similar sites and pointed out major inconsistencies and red flags that we saw. If you somehow think that constitutes a recommendation there's absolutely no way we could recommend any product that would help you.

I would have to say in your case your best bet is to keep a traditional 9-5 job.

Also, I would point out that your claim that every data entry and home typing program is owned by one company is completely wrong. It's true that many of the sites are owned by one company which can be determined by doing a reverse-ip lookup and then checking whois records.

You can do the reverse-ip lookup here:

http://www.reverseiplookup.net/

For example when we enter dataentrymadeeasy.com into this reverse ip lookup tool, we find the following domains:

Now, this tool shows you the domains hosted in the same IP address, although it doesn't directly show you what the IP is. You can find the actual IP usinghttp://www.iwebtool.com/reverse_ip

At the time of this writing the tool gave the IP address 74.205.85.187 which I then put back into the original reverse-ip lookup tool and it returned the same set of sites. There's really no reason to do that though, except to confirm that the first tool works as claimed.

Now, if you want to go the next step with trafficdealz.com, trafficgurl.com, trafficpayouts.com, type-at-home.com, paidsurveysetc.com you can look through the whois records to determine who the owner and registrant are. It's always possible that someone has put misleading information in there, but it will still give you some pretty good clues about what's going on (i.e., if they put the SAME misleading information in all of the whois entries).

Now if you use the same process on say dataentrybusiness.com, edatajob.com, or worldwidedataentry.com I can almost guarantee you that you'll follow a path that will take you to different owners.

Finally, I assume you mean the following as far as agencies to check out:

  • The Internet Crime Complaint Center or http://www.ic3.gov/
  • The Federal Trade Commision at http://www.ftc.gov - not the best syntax for checking the ftc via google is site:ftc.gov "product name" as sometimes searching the FTC directly actually turns up less results than searching this way in Google. Really you should search both ways.
  • The Better Business Bureau - definitely should be checked out but you must realize that just because a company seemingly has a lot of complaints doesn't mean anything if you don't know the volume of transactions it does. You can get some sense of a sites popularity by checking Quantcast.com, Compete.com, & Alexa.com, but I would do an overlay of all three statistics to ferret out any inconsistencies.

Let's take a look at DataEntryMadeEasy for example.

Currently it ranks as follow across these three services:

  • Alexa - 51,526
  • Quantcast - 10,485
  • Compete - Shows 208,664 unique visitors per month although as Compete mentions you also need to look at "Engagement" as some sites can artificially drive up their unique visitor numbers by sending people who leave the site immediately.

However, we would be extremely skeptical of information provided by a site called Ranking.com which claims to test a sites "trustworthiness". For example - when we ran workathometruth.com and trustgauge.com through McAfee's SiteAdvisor, TrustGauge got the following message:

"When we tested this site we found links to browseraccelerator.com, which we found to be a distributor of downloads some people consider adware, spyware or other potentially unwanted programs."

While WorkAtHomeTruth got this one:

"We tested this site and didn't find any significant problems."

Which is why you can't just rely on ONE site to make a determination about the reliability of something.

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p.s., if you want to read a great article about the problems with Rankings.com, Alice Seba wrote a great article about it here:

http://www.internetbasedmoms.com/seo/about-ranking-com.html

 

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