In my last post I mentioned that I would identify programs that are scams. One of those on the net today is Realdataentry.net. They operate very much like the crafts scams I spoke about earlier. First I would like to tell you what to look for as this site provides the perfect examples.- The Terms of Service are not listed.
- Insufficient Contact Information
- Insufficient Whois.net Data
- Check Forums or Reviews
Now I must admit that the marketing of this was done rather well. Notice how you get that cozy feeling. You want to believe in the value of family and their promises. Not to mention you get to try it for free, who wouldn't believe this is real? Now let's look to see how all that comes to play.
The fact that they offer a free trial only adds to the situation. When you upgrade from the trial they seem to have problems on their end and they use those problems to their advantage. Now think of this, you would be paying them so that you could work for them. Now that doesn't make much sense to me. If you upgrade there is a part-time and full-time postition available for $19.95 and $49.95. They are calling this a one-time setup cost that is non-refundable according to their terms of service. Now speaking of terms of service you will not be directed to that page until AFTER you pay for the upgrade. The terms are pretty basic.
1. You are not allowed to submit the same assignment more than one time. Submitting the same assignment more than once is a cause for account termination.
2. You are not allowed copy information from the website in order to fill out the questionnaire. Not only is this a copyright violation, but it is also a form of cheating that will not be tolerated. If you copy information from the websites you are reviewing your account will be deleted and you will not be compensated for your assignments.
3. All of your assignments should not look alike. If all of your assignments look exactly the same we will assume it is because you are sing form filling software and this is a form of cheating and your account will be deleted and you will not be compensated for your assignments.
4. You should not repeatedly miss clear mistakes that are on the websites. On many of your assignments there will be clear mistakes that you will only see if you are reading the entire information. You will see things such as "oyu" or "hte" on these websites to test if you are actually completing your assignments. You need to find the mistakes , and then provide the correction for the mistake. Failure to continually miss these mistakes will show us that you are cheating and your account will be deleted and you will not be compensated for your assignments.
5. You are not allowed to complete an assignment if the website you are reviewing is down. If a website is down or not working, you are required to report it to us immediately. Completing an assignment when the site is down is cheating and if you do this, your account will be deleted and you will not be compensated for your assignments.
6. You are required to use complete sentences being as descriptive as possible when you are completing your assignments. If the site is about a new sleeping pill and all you type is "sleeping pill" then that is unacceptable and you will not be paid for those assignments. You must also use proper spelling and grammar in your assignments. Abbreviations are not acceptable. If most of your assignments look like this then your account will be deleted.
7. If you are a full-time member, then you are guaranteed to receive at least 3 assignments per day for at least 10 weeks. After the first 10 weeks, we will send you additional assignments as they come in.
8. If you are a part-time member, you will receive at least 1 assignment per day for the first 100 days. after the first 100 days, you will receive assignments as they become available.
* If your account is disabled to a breach in our terms no refund will be given. NO EXCEPTIONS.
How The Scam Works
After you upgrade you review 100 websites for grammatical errors and complete a 4-5 question survey about the site. You can request payout when your account reaches $1000. Now it may take 2-3 months to complete these assignments. Upon requesting payout you will receive an email informing you that your work needs to be reviewed and the process may take 2-4 weeks (not listed in the terms of service). Usually at the end of the fourth week you will receive an email telling you that you were in violation of the terms of service and your account has been deactivated. No other correspondence will be made with them. Smells like the craft scam!
How To Seek Recourse
By the time you get that dreaded email almost 3 months have passed. This is the legal time frame with which to file a dispute with your credit card company (within 90 days) and most will inform you that there is nothing they can do. However, file a dispute anyway and then contact the merchant service provider (payment processor) used by realdataenty.net and inform them of your situation. Currently they are using Alert Pay and they are aware of the situation. They will issue a refund on your behalf but only if realdataentry has those funds available.
Now you will not be able to get information regarding the owners of realdataentry.net but here's how to keep others from becoming a victim. Go to the website http://www.whois.net/ and do a search for realdataentry.net and look for the section that says:Domain servers in listed order:
ns1.ezwebsolution.net
ns2.ezwebsolution.net
This is the web hosting account. Currently it is ezwebsolution.net. Contact them via their "contact us, support, or email" link and inform them that you believe they may be committing internet fraud. They have an obligation to shut the site down. Inform them that you will also be filing a complaint with the FTC and ic3.gov. Continue to complain until they close the site...it is your right as a consumer! Oh...then file a complaint with the FTC and ic3.gov. Their site was shut down by their last web hosting provider and they will look for another hosting account. When the site comes back up use this method with their new web hosting account.
One last thought; learn to identify some red flags. I was wondering how one would do business with them and have a site reviewed, yet there is no way to do business with them...RED FLAG. I believe they own most of those sites you review with the hope that you PURCHASE something at some point! Boy they really have perfected the internet scam.
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