Beware the latest form of employment scams: Twitter-style. Con artists are now using the popular micro-blogging site Twitter to lure people desperate for work into work-at-home schemes. Many of these schemes used to focus on making money by sending emails or by placing Google ads. The latest variation is a promise to make money working at home on Twitter. Companies like Easytweetprofits.com and make-money-on-twitter.com (associated with TwitterProfitHouse.com) promise from $250 a day to $5000 a month for posting links to Twitter. If you’re interested, you supposedly only have to pay a few dollars for a 7-day trial instructional CD. However, buried in the terms and conditions of the contract is a clause stating that if you don’t cancel the contract, you will be charged a monthly amount on an ongoing basis (such as $47 or $99). And your trial period starts from the day you ORDER the CD (not when you receive it). 

Avoid getting burned by steering clear of any ‘work at home’ offers that:

• Sound too good to be true (as in, there is no actual work involved, just a scheme to make money).
• Promise lots of money for little effort and no experience
• Request money up-front to get more information about the job or to be considered for it
• In the case of Twitter, you find exactly the same ‘tweet’ being posted by a number of different people (the links in these can lead to scam sites or install malware on your computer).