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On February 1, 2009 I became the new owner of x10media.com. It makes sense with my businesses around working at home…

X10media.com offers the best web scripts online; we don’t focus only on one industry. We provide scripts for different areas of the internet and the scripts we design all have unique features.

We strive to achieve our aim, success. Each year we release new products, to keep us fresh and up to date. What makes us stand out is our excellent support and fan base. At x10 we make our customers our number one priority, from the feedback we get, we improve.

Our team of vibrant talent produce innovating ideas which make us one step ahead from competitors. From now on, x10media will be the start of something new, our new management will enable us to maximize our expertise and boost our services. Whether you’re a web developer or someone who wants’ to start a new business, we have the perfect scripts to get you started.

Following the recent credit crunch crisis, we understand it can be financially hard, so we have introduced new schemes which will support you, we have minimized our pricing and also introduced our latest addition to the site, our affiliation program. These scripts are ready to install and get monetized.

Check x10media.com for our latest offers and promotions!

As an Internet, we all run into scams.  Things seem to get worse.  It looks like, the more we try to find new ways to make money at home, the more we find “bad guys” trying to rip off people.

Telephone lottery scams: These include the Canadian lottery scam and the El Gordo Spanish lottery scam, which deceptively uses the name of a genuine lottery. People respond to an unsolicited mailing or telephone call telling them they are being entered into a prize draw. They then receive a telephone call congratulating them on winning a big prize in a national lottery – but before they can claim their winnings, they must send money to pay for taxes and processing fees. The prize doesn’t exist.

Prize draw, sweepstakes and foreign lottery mailings: many typical scams take the form of prize draws, lotteries or government payouts. Most appear to be notification of a prize in an overseas draw or lottery in return for administration or registration fees.

Premium rate telephone number scams: Notification by post of a win in a sweepstakes or a holiday offer includes instructions to ring a premium rate 090 number to claim your prize.

Investment related scams: An unsolicited telephone call offering the opportunity to invest in shares, fine wine, gemstones or other soon-to-be rare commodities. These investments often carry very high risk and may be worth a lot less than you pay. The shares are not quoted on any stock exchange and you will not be able to sell them easily afterwards. ‘Solid’ valuable investments, such as gem stones, are often said to be stored in secretive Swiss bank vaults, so you can never see your investment.

Nigerian advance fee frauds: THE MOST KNOWN SCAM. An offer via letter, e-mail or fax to share a huge sum of money in return for using the recipient’s bank account to permit the transfer of the money out of the country. The perpetrators will either use the information given to empty their victim’s bank account; or convince him or her that money is needed up front for bribing officials. Pyramid schemes: offer a return on a financial investment based upon the number of new recruits to the scheme. Investors are misled about the likely returns as there are not enough people to support the scheme indefinitely – only the people who set up the scheme are able to make any money.

Matrix schemes: are promoted via web sites offering expensive hi-tech gadgets as free gifts in return for spending £20 or similar on a low-value product such as a mobile telephone signal booster. Consumers who buy the product join a waiting list to receive their free gift. The person at the top of the list gets their free gift only after a prescribed number – sometimes as high as 100 – of new members join up. In reality, the majority of those on the list will never receive the expensive item they expect.

Credit scams: another advance fee fraud, originating in Canada. Advertisements have appeared in local newspapers offering fast loans regardless of credit history. Consumers who respond are told their loans have been agreed but before the money can be released they must pay a fee to cover insurance. Once the advance fee is paid, the consumer never hears from the company again and the loan never appears.

Property investment schemes: would-be investors attend a free presentation and are persuaded to hand over thousands of pounds to sign up to a course promising to teach them how to make money dealing in property. Schemes may involve the opportunity to buy properties which have yet to be built at a discount. A variation is a buy-to-let scheme where companies offer to source, renovate and manage properties, claiming good returns from rental income. In practice, the properties are near-derelict and the tenants non-existent.

Work-at-home and business opportunity scams: often work by advertising paid work from home but which require money up-front to pay for materials; or by requiring investment in a business with little or no chance of success.

Ebay Scams/Paypal Bank scams

1. You can receive an email from “your” bank or paypal asking you to log in in order to..(say verify something) the page you are redirected is actually a fishing page and all the information,including your account passwords will be stolen. DO NOT EVER trust any emails like this. If in doubt,call your bank or go directly to the website(eg. www.ebay.com) and inter your account details there.

2. EBay scams may involve people trying to buy goods from you with money order,where they pay you with  fraudulent bill. You sent the goods,thinking your bank will clear this up,but it would not…. Always wait until the money are cleared by your bank,before sending stuff. Sometimes they use their own shipping company.

3. EBay scam which is also popular involves stealing someone else’s account(by the means of #1,etc). Then they post an item for sale for a price you can’t resist. When you purchase it, they will ask you to pay,using money order or similar service.  They can also set up a fake escrow service. Beware.

Use common sense for every purchase. If it’s too good to be true- IT IS.  

I got a new one last week. A company is telling me that they are looking for an finance director in Canada to receive funds from their client in US and Canada.  They need this because they are located in UK and have some problem with exchange rates, custom etc (blah blah blah).  Here is the trick, they ask you to fill a credit form that will help them to verify if they can trust you.  Of course you’ll be accepted.  Thereafter, they’ll ask you to transfer a certain amount in their account to ensure you’ll not steal their money ;-)

Yes, you read that title correctly. But… Only if you are a student at University!  If you are working at home you might be able to take advantage of this “crazy” offer if you also happen to be a student or if you know someone who is a student.

You can access this offer directly from Microsoft at: http://www.microsoft.com/student/discounts/theultimatesteal-ca/default.aspx

Let me know if you get that deal! A 91% discount is amazing!

Wow, for us working at home, this is some kind of deal we don’t want to miss if we do not have a license of Office 2007.  I don’t know if there is a way to get it from a student?

There is also a funny video about it at http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=fr-ca&brand=sympatico&vid=d45cd1f9-389a-4cea-ad9b-b81cdbe58487

Not quite sure at this point but I also think it might be only available in Canada.  It’s worth it to spend some time to check into this offer and see if there’s a way you can get it.  If you find information please post comments to help us all out!

Really, if you can grab the deal with the ultimate version, this is your best bet!

The blog has been sold today. My name is Yann de Champlain and I am the new owner. Great work has been done in the past with this blog. I’ll work to take this blog a step further. I foresee a great evolution for this blog and also in the “work at home” market. This is just the beginning!

I take this opportunity to invite writers to be part of the challenge. Do not hesitate to contact me to establish synergies and create new opportunities, aren’t we all looking for great opportunities? Even if many of you guys are working alone in the comfort of your home, that kind of blog should help you as if you were part of a team to reach your goal. 

Subject ideas are also welcome!

Happy new year!

UPDATE 5/20/2009:

This blog has been sold again back to its original creator and owner, Trent Brownrigg.

When I first sold the work at home based business blog I was starting several new online business projects and no longer had the extra time to put towards building this blog to its full potential. Now everything has settled down and I have more free time, so I offered to buy it back from the new owner and he accepted.

I will be taking it to the next level with tons of new content and a strong marketing campaign. Subscribe to the RSS feed right now so you don’t miss the ride!

I probably should have put this up sooner, like maybe when the auction started, but for some reason I didn’t even think about it. I wrote about it on one of my other blogs but not here on the one being sold. Oh well, better late than never, right?

Yes, this blog is for sale, and it’s a great opportunity for you to take over an already established work at home blog so you can get started working at home on your computer. If you already make money online this is your chance to add another site to your online business empire and make even more money!

Think about it…

You are reading this right now and you obviously visited this blog for a reason. So, why not be the owner instead of just a reader?

There isn’t much time left on the auction but there’s still enough time for you to get over there and put in your bid. Don’t miss out on this huge opportunity. Everyone wants to work at home and blogging is one of the most popular ways of doing that, so this site is the perfect combination of both!

All the information about the site can be found at the auction listing: (sold – listing no longer available)

If you have any questions let me know.

Good Luck!

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
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