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In this post I am going to describe in detail the two data entry scams that I personally feel a victim of.  If I am not very much mistaken these were two very popular kind of scams that were being run and perhaps still out there out there somewhere even today.

Online Data Entry Job:
here was this company that offers a clean and not confusing way of working.  Not to mention it was highly convenient, you pay a fee that was close to $100 and you would be given a login and a password to your own account section.  In this account section you found certain files that contain a list that comprised of names of people along with their addresses and phone and fax numbers.  There were more than one list present on the account and you could download any one of them to begin your work with.  These files were in a PDF format and you were supposed to enter each and every entry in an Excel format spreadsheet.  Each list contained several thousand names and addresses.  There was no time limit allotted in which you were supposed to finish this project but there was the restrictions on the number of mistakes that you were allowed to make.  I believe the maximum number of mistakes was around 10 in a list  that contain about 7000 names and addresses phone numbers and fax numbers.  I think it is pretty safe to assume that if you sit down to type such an extensive database almost anyone and everyone, barring a machine, will at least make 10 mistakes.  What was even more fantastic was that they already had this data typed out neatly and preserved in a PDF file but were asking you to do it all over again in an Excel format spreadsheet.  If you look at it logically it just does not make sense.  Why should anybody pay you to retype a list that they already have?  The answer is the simple.  They never had any intention of doing so.
While it will take any normal person weeks after weeks to just finished this simple list for which they pay something like $100, it used to take them only a day or two to analyse the completed list that you sent to them and point out all your mistakes exactly.  This obviously means that they had an accurate means of crosschecking the retyped list with the original data. They never really had any need of any person working from home and doing this kind of data entry work.  They even went so far to prohibit the use of optical character recognition software saying that it was not allowed.  What difference does it make to someone who just wants a list in an Excel spreadsheet format how the list is created?  There is no difference between a list that has been typed and one that has been read off an optical Character Recognition software.
Anyway, the final word is that me along with a couple of more people that I knew tried this opportunity out and predictably so, failed miserably at it.  There was simply no way of managing this huge data entry list with the kind of accuracy that they demanded.  And if that kind of accuracy was to be achieved it would take months on end to simply finish one list that paid you a meagre hundred dollars for all that effort.
But what took the cake was, if you made repeated mistakes in the work that is submitted to the company they cancelled your account after some time and you no longer had access to them.  They made sure in every single way that people would subscribe to them and the money would flow only one way. From the innocent people getting scanned by their data entry scheme is to their wallets.
Again, predictably so, this data entry company claims that all its positions were full after a couple of months and stopped taking new subscriptions altogether.  And a few weeks down the line of such an announcement this company disappeared altogether without a trace on the Internet.  It is probably around even today functioning under some other name and from some other location.

Compiling Mailing List Data Entry Job at Home:
so did I learn anything from a first experience with the so-called and disastrous data entry jobs at home?  The answer is, probably not.  I still had enough hope or stupidity in me to actually give this kind of work for one more try before I realised the true nature of home based data entry jobs.  This company made almost the same promises as the previous one.  In fact, as I recall they made better and more convincing ones. The only difference between this and the previous company was that this company said that they would actually mail you a list of data that comprised of names, addresses and phone numbers of people.  They needed this to be typed out in an Excel or a tabular format.  The company claims that this data was meant for use by clients for marketing and customer service and that this data was in fact the database of several of their businesses and clients.  Made perfect sense so far.  My positivity however was fast to dissipate when I received this list from the data entry company.  The printed pages were obviously nothing more than photocopies of pages from the telephone directory!  Nothing else.  The pages and the names had all been jumbled up together.  The quality of the scan and print out was so bad that it was almost impossible to read any single name and address with any kind of accuracy.  Thinking that this might be an inadvertent error on the part of the data entry company I wrote to them repeatedly about the bad quality of the printout but did not receive any response.  It was obvious that this was done deliberately and with the obvious purpose in mind.  The job was impossible to accomplish and finish. 

So while you end up paying to join the company you are handed and impossible data entry jobs which is just not humanly possible to finish.  If you are thinking why I simply couldn’t copy the names from the telephone directory if these pages were indeed copy of that, I did mention that the names and the pages were scrambled, which means that the names and addresses were not in an alphabetical order as they are found in a directory but jumbled up altogether and hence impossible to correlate with a phone directory without spending hundreds of hours doing only this.

The variations of data entry scams are many.  It is also known by many names such as form filling, ad posting, etc. .  The matter what the name says they all have the same feel to the kind of promise that they make. Any sort of a home-based opportunity data entry or anything else, that promises hundreds of thousands of dollars in income working at home every week without needing you to do much work and requiring any prior experience is a scam.  You will never get what you asked for.  And even if you to get some information in exchange for the money that you paid it will be completely useless and widely diverging from what you signed up for.  You will be doing anything and everything else except for typing simple data on your keyboard in the comfort of your home and making hundreds of dollars.  There is no secret to making money working at home by doing mundane and mechanical jobs such as data entry, envelope stuffing, transcription and so on and so forth.  This secret is not exist yesterday and it certainly does not exist today.  Hang on, maybe it does but it is not in all these foolishly bloated and obviously fraudulent opportunities.  If such a secret does exist it is certainly not being sold on the Internet to anybody who wishes to shell out $34 for it.