Scam Artists online

I'm not joking, this just happened to me three days ago. I'm a mum who lives at home because child care costs are too high for me to go back to work and so i would love to basically do some work online and earn money. So i went onto Gumtree and i saw this advert saying 'Typist/Data Entry and Information Products Processor' needed, i read it and it was a woman called Vicky Entwistle Law who was offering a this job to fill in ads online for products for '100+ companies' and her company was called 'Ideal Jobs'. Apparently, i would earn 20-25 pounds per advert. It sounded perfect, i could earn easy money sitting at home with the kids. She asked for £31 to be paid by Paypal to her for training material. I emailled her a few times, she seemed genuine and very prompt at replying to my emails. So i paid her £31 and then she emailled me training material which was simply a copy of her original ad on Gumtree with an instruction to re-post it on to loads of free ad websites which she gave me a list of! I was soooo annoyed, given that every penny counts with the kids, i was simply taken for a ride.

I was being told to scam others out of their money. And then the silly cow gave me some downloads for eBooks so i thought at least i've got that for my money, but the downloads links didnt work either and eventually i tracked down the same eBooks onlilne that are being given away for free anyway, so what did i pay that £31 for exactly.

i thought i'm going to show this woman that you cant get away with scamming people, so i went to the Paypal website and opened a case for investigation by Paypal, but 'as we do not deal with the quality of the product delivered' they were not able to help me. Then i emailled fraud alert at the met police but nothing came of that either. All i managed to do was get her ad taken off Gumtree by Gumtree Admin. Then i thought i would go on to all the free ad websites that she advertises on and tell everyone the truth about her, but some websites have a legal clause against saying anything regarding scam emails that have come from their website. so now i'm stuck, i still want my money back but i can't get it.

Anyway, never do business with any Vicky Entwistle Law using the email vickylaw28@msn.com as her Paypal email and Idealjobs@live.co.uk!!!

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Comments

Pyramid Scheme Fraud

If what you are saying is true, then this is a classic pyramid scheme and is seen as fraud. Fraud is a police matter in the uk. It's probably worth posting on forums including gumtree forum about your story and maybe you can attract the attention of other people who suffered the same fate as yourself. I will also look around to see if its worth posting something about this on blogs or forums to see if we can find out more about this scam.