Planet Money did a great podcast last week called Anatomy of a Scam. They interviewed someone who worked for one of those "make $674 a day working from home". When you click on the link they ask for your name and number and then he would try to sell you a $5000 service to provide back end web support and tax help so that you can start working online. They played three recorded calls to the same old woman who was a victim. The first tricked her into subscribing, the second upped the amount and loaned her the money to do it and the third was from her estate trying to figure where all of her money went after she died.
The calls were awful to listen to but that company was shut down after collecting $200 million to help old people setup online businesses.
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