Everyone’s seen them—seductive work-at-home opportunities hyped in flyers tacked to telephone poles, in newspaper classifieds, in your e-mail, and all over the web, promising you hundreds or thousands of dollars a week for typing, stuffing envelopes, processing medical billing, etc. And it’s just a phone call or mouse click away…
Might be tempting during these uncertain [...]

Ross Howard from the Better Business Bureau shows me a check that a consumer recently brought in. It’s for about $1,900 and looks real to me. Then he rips it in half. The paper makes almost a screechy sound as it rips apart. Howard relates that to the sound some people make when he rips [...]