Anyway, thanks to everyone for the tremendous dialog on this. I continue to get lots of search traffic to this post, and I’m glad it seems to be appreciated. My little blurb here will be comment #50, and I think this is a good time to close the thread. If anyone has any further comments you’d like to share, feel free to email me through the contact page.

What I did to test the scam was quite a long process…1st of all, the ads themselves:

3money
5makemoney
76careers
7career(s)
9earningpower
16makemoney
and so on… so I picked one, and used a proxy(can’t spam ur ip from a good proxy ;D). after putting in some false information I got to the 2nd part of the scam. This was where it was apparant that it was a scam…why would somebody who wants to help you get a home-based business try to get so much personally identifiable information(the answer is they aren’t trying to help at all)? From your Ip address and a cookie, they can get your basic location, and can personally track somebnody anonymously. It doesn’t, however, stop there. Today, one can easily get A phone #, Address, Status, Job, and tons of other personallyt identifiable information, just with a 1st and last name, and a Zip Code(if you don’t believe me, try it on Google, or put in your phone number with area code on google)! So after this I saw that it was a scam… The last part of my test: Giving them fake information that I could trace. Every time I did this I used a different proxy. The first time I gave them a fresh hotmail email address. Second I gave them a friend’s(we already had talked about doing this :P) phone number. Sure enough, after 2 weeks we were all eating spam for dinner :P. The e-mail address was flooded by messages offering various different products, and my poor friend almost started recording his voice saying ‘Take me off your calling list’ on his answering machine!

My final outlook on this whole situation is that if these people could put cameras in your home legally, they would. They are(or he is, talking about the man in the commercials) hardcore spammers, just as bad as the people that create spyware and ptu it on unexpecting user’s computers. Don’t throw these dogs a bone…

If you want to investigate further I suggest quite a few different things to protect your personal information
1. Don’t even go to their site from your IP address, use a proxy – they are easily found on google :)
2. NEVER EVER EVER give out your real information. Like I said earlier, almost every way that you can be contacted can be recieved from your phone number and google!
3. I think 1 and 2 need repeating lol.

If any good ever comes out of this scam, it would be that people would finally learn what to look for(and hey, you could always give them your enemy’s information and watch them get spammed! lol just kidding).

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By the way, to the webmaster of this site – you need to fix the aligning of the text on the webpage.