Www.freelancehomewriters.com has for many months been posting fraudulent help-wanted ads all over the internet.
The texts of the help-wanted ads vary and are credible. This causes job-seekers to waste time responding to them, composing responses according to the needs communicated in the ads. However, the job-seekers suckered through the ads receive in response to their e-mail job applications an e-mail with a link leading to the www.freelancehomewriters.com site.
The site does not offer employment of any kind. It is a pay-to-join service. That service appears to be fraudulent, besides. Google searches on the company name or Charles Wellmore, a name associated with the company, quickly reveal many victims whose credit and or debit cards have been fraudulently charged. The site states that one may cancel a membership at any time by calling an 800 number, but many victims are reporting that when they call that number, nobody answers. They then have had to cancel their bank cards, in order to stop www.freelancehomewriters.com from charging them in subsequent months. Additionally, once the company has your e-mail address, it sends you oodles of spam with misleading subject lines and come-ons to pay to join its service.
I have wasted many hours responding to this company's fraudulent help-wanted ads. I have "Charles Wellmore"'s e-mail address. He claimed that he never meant to cheat anybody, that he was "new to posting on Craiglist" et cetera, but when I requested that he send me an e-mail message committing to never again posting a fraudulent help-wanted ad, I received no response.in other words, "Charles Wellmore" intends to try to continue his fraudulent practices.
Additionally, Anne Wayman of About Freelance Writing had this disturbing online chat with www.freelancehomewriters.com:
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This morning I went to the Freelance Home Writers website and had this dialog as a result of clicking on their live help:
Thanks for contacting us. Please hold a moment while we route your chat to a specialist who will help you with your question: ‘Why don’t you put something that indicates you cha…’
aaron has received your message and will be right with you.
Please wait, connecting to server…
Connected!
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Anne Wayman says: 08:24: 07 AM
Hi Aaron
Aaron says: 08:24: 34 AM
Hello Anne, how can I help you today?
Anne Wayman says: 08:24: 52 AM
Why don’t you put something that indicates you charge a fee in your ads?
Aaron says: 08:25: 58 AM
I’m not sure why that’s the case. There is a $2.95 charge for a seven day trail and then on the 8th day, their is a $47 monthly charge
Anne Wayman says: 08:26: 40 AM
It’s so frustrating to respond to an ad only to receive info about how to pay you.
Anne Wayman says: 08:27: 19 AM
who can I talk to about how you do your ads?
Then we got disconnected and reconnected
Aaron says: 08:29: 15 AM
There is no one at our customer service office to speak to about changing any of our ads
Anne Wayman says: 08:29: 58 AM
okay, your website has an address on it, who would I address a snail mail complaint to?
Fyi, I’m Anne Wayman who does the AboutFreelanceWriting.com blog.
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It is clear that the company is acting with intent to deceive.
I urge anybody victimized in whatever way by www.freelancehomewriters.com to complain to the sites that are allowing the company to post its fraudulent ads. With relatively little effort, the community can stop these jerks from wasting huge amounts of people's time in the future
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