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I’m pretty sure that most of you will love, if you get a chance to work from home where you will find the maximum freedom in work. But there are many things to consider if you plan to work from home. If you do it without a good thinking, you will mess up with it. I will explain some important aspects on work at home in this post.

The first thing you must be aware of is millions of work at home scams where simply you will lose your hardly earned money. I have posted a post on Work at Home Scams before. If you are interested, you are welcome to read it. They promise many, but you will get nothing. Before you start working from home, you must gain a reasonable expertise on a particular area you like where you can market your expertise to the clients. Then you must build relationships with online communities or people who are in the work at home community.

It is more efficient if you can start your own website or blog before you start your work at home career. By doing this, you can gain popularity and make connections with hopefully future customers. And then you can show your expertise to the interested people when they ask for proofs. Always keep in mind that you must never cheat you customers and don’t expect more profits from your first few work at home assignments. Always do your best with your projects and deliver them on time. It is more important to build the trust and satisfaction with your customers which will lead to more future projects.

There is a risk of maintaining a stable monthly income by working from home. This is visible in self engaged projects. But if you can find an opportunity to work from home for a company, you can mitigate this risk. There are some companies allow their employees to work from home. You must do a research on this.

You must never quit from your current job before laying a good foundation on your work at home career. My advice is to do work at home projects for few months while you are in your current job. Then you will get an understanding about the pros and cons you have and how to improve your work at home career. Quit your current job when you are 100% confident on the work at home position.

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Millions of people are looking for ways to generate a real income from the internet. Because many of them have got caught into various quick and easy internet money scams and lost their hardly earned money. I have done a good research on that and I have revealed some of those scams in this blog. I was also looking for a real opportunity and I’m writing this post to inform you about a real way of earning internet money with dedicated work.

I have heard that there are some companies offering money to write posts in our blogs. Therefore I did a Google search and found this fascinating and trustable website called PayPerPost. I did some research on that and found out it is a good and trusted company. The most significant feature I found in PayPerPost is it offers a WIN-WIN situation for both the advertiser and the blogger. Blogger gets the chance to blog on a favorite product or service which will give some useful information to blog readers and the advertiser gets the chance to advertise and inform about his/her product or service to the loyal readers of the particular blog. The blogger can post according to the niche of his blog by selecting offers which fall into his/her niche. Once the post is posted according to the guidelines of the offer and submitted it to the PayPerPost editorial team, they will examine the quality of your post and approve it or reject it. It’s up to the blogger to make sure that his/her post is not rejected. It is also required to put the blogger’s original non-sponsored post before and after every sponsored post of PayPerPost. This guarantees that the blogger maintains the balance and quality of his/her blog.

I will post about the offers from PayPerPost in the future with my own informative and useful posts. And I will definitely maintain and improve the quality of the posts. I will use the money I receive from PayPerPost for the improvements of my family conditions and to help people who needs help (there are many in my country). And I will also use that money to improve the quality and service of my blog.

I hope that this opportunity will be important to you also. Why are you still waiting? Visit PayPerPost and register. It’s absolutely free. You will be paid via PayPal. You will find more information there. I wish you good luck on your relationship with PayPerPost!

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I was wandering what to post today. When I was thinking about the topic, I received another interesting email to my admin email address of this blog. That email is added below. Read it carefully.

From: CitiBusiness [mailto:csupport.id26701-9565967340CBF@citibank.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:03 PM
To: Admin
Subject: CitiBusiness: please update your data.

Dear CitiBusiness customer,

CitiBusiness new Scheduled Maintenance Program protects your data from unauthorized access. CitiBusiness Online Form is important addition to our scheduled maintenance program.
Please use the link below to access CitiBusiness Online Form:

CitiBusiness Online Form

Please do not reply to this auto-generated email. Follow instructions above.

When you read this, you will get an idea that the real Citi bank customer service has written this. You will definitely click the link and impatiently wait until the web page loads. I don’t have any connection with the citi bank. Therefore I suspected that this is a scam. What I did was, I checked the URL in the link given in the email I received. Here it is and have a close look at it. Check whether you notice anything.

http://citibusiness.citibank.com.losao1.es/businessdir/cbof/start.do/

?ref=89359052406999261772635660432086023000757642467292293

1377109&session=7632008

You won’t notice much difference most probably. Because you will see the first few words as http://citibusiness.citibank.com and you will ignore the rest and continue with the instruction in the web page that you will see next. But if you have a closer look at it, you’ll find that the web address ends with .es (Not the whole URL). The web address is highlighted below.

http://citibusiness.citibank.com.losao1.es/businessdir/cbof/start.do/

?ref=89359052406999261772635660432086023000757642467292293

1377109&session=7632008

This is not the real web address of Citi bank. I have given the real web address beow.

http://www.citibank.com/us/index.htm

The people who are behind this scam are more intelligent than the PayPal scam I explained in an earlier post. Because they have used the citibank.com part in their web address as a sub domain. The actual web address is losao1.es which is a web address of Spain. When you click the URL in the email, you will be directed to a page like below.

You won’t think that this page is not an original one when you see it. I’m not quite sure about the Citi bank business code. If it is something important and confidential like a credit card number and if you have a code, you will definitely enter it. Then they have your id and they can use it for their evil intentions. I just put a random number with an English letter and hit enter.

There was no error given and directed to another page. Therefore I feel that there is no much usage of pirating this id. The next page I saw is given below.

It is a login form and I entered random values again. No error was thrown and I was directed to another page as shown below.

The details you have to enter here must be important to these people. Because a normal user will enter their real data believing that this is a real. The people who are behind this scam most probably contact you by using the details provided in this form and definitely ask for financial data like account number, pin number and credit card details. They will give you a good excuse for it like upgrade of the system. If you do this, you are doomed.

As I did earlier, I added random values and clicked “Confirm” button. Then a popup message box was shown as below.

If you look carefully, you will see the above mentioned fake Citi bank web address in the title of the message box. The only truth they have told, I could find here. When I clicked “OK” I was directed to the real Citi bank website. So I’m pretty confident that their needed information was in the form I mentioned above.

If you have a Citi bank id, you will definitely put your real data in that form and there is a very good chance that you will be caught into trouble. What I wanted to emphasis by revealing this scam is to ask you to be more careful when you receive these kinds of emails. Any bank or other monetary organization won’t ask your private details in a way like this. Therefore you must inquire about this from the real business entity. And you must also carefully examine the URLs given in the email and data validation in the pages you will be directed after clicking that link. By doing this you will be able to get rid off from your worst nightmares.

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I’m not a psychologist to prove that blogs are helping to relieve our mental stress. But I thought to write this post to explain you about something I experience by blogging. Some of us do blogging with a commercial purpose. Some of us do it as a hobby. And some of us are doing this for both as a hobby and a way of income. But what I feel about blogging is, it helps me to relieve my mental stress at least to some extent.

You might agree with the content in this post or might not. This is my personal opinion only. You are always welcome to continue this discussion with your ideas. Almost all of us blog on a niche we like. By blogging about the things we like, I have personally experienced the improvement of my self confidence and relief of my stresses on the working environment. There is a well known and proved simple psychological exercise to relive from the stress generated by a problem. If you have any problem troubling your mind, if you write it on a paper or tell it to someone (you trust of course) you can reduce your stress at least to some extent.

I think we can experience the same result from blogging. There is no need to publish your blog in public. All you have to do is downloading a free blogging platform like Wordpress and installing it in your local machine. Once you setup the blogging platform, you are ready to write. You can write about your problems, ideas, suggestions on various things. This will definitely reduce your mental stress. The locally hosted blog will act as very good listening friend who doesn’t talk. If you do this make sure that you keep your privacy in a very higher level. Put good passwords for your blog’s admin login and the related databases. Otherwise a life spoiler might find your personal data and use them to find money by blackmailing you or providing those data to a third party to use them against you.

I think if you blog about the real problems you face and real ideas, you will definitely be able to relieve from mental stress at least by a small amount. You might be thinking how to measure the reduced amount of stress. But definitely you will feel more comfortable after doing this. So why are you waiting? Let’s have a try. And let me know if you experience any progress.

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We all have email addresses. We use them for various purposes. Some use them for bad. But many of us use email addresses for good purposes to carry out our day to day life. There are some factors you must consider when you use your email addresses (free or paid email services). You might have given your email address to various websites, forums, blogs, etc. By doing this you expose your email address to the public. Anyone can use it for any purpose then. In this post I wish to explain you about the consequences that can happen if you do so without having a thought too much.

First thing is the using your email address for scams by cyber pirates (I prefer to call them like that :-)). I have experienced this and I have put posts regarding these scams before using one of my real experiences. These cyber pirates are searching the internet for email addresses every day. They find those email addresses mainly from freely available sources like forums and blogs. If you have added your email address in those, you might have received these scam emails already and you also might have get caught and lost money. I recommend you to read my posts on the category “Scams” to get a good understanding about these scam emails. In a nutshell, you’ll receive these types of emails asking your help to transfer a large amount of money and indicating that you will be paid a portion of that money.

Next thing is get caught into trouble by making unseen friends or lovers. After some email exchanges, many people fall in love or in a friendship even without seeing or knowing the person at the other end. These good and honest feelings of yours are can be used by various underworld people like drug dealers. If you trust them without finding out more details, the chance of getting into trouble is higher. You might contact a person that you know. But there is a chance of the real person contacting you might be another one. Therefore you must find about the person who is writing emails to you. The best way is having a chat with a web cam. Then at least you can see that person. Unless you are fully satisfied with that person’s behavior, never take actions even that person talk to you with friendly and enchanting words.

The last thing is receiving various unwanted emails as spam. This will become a headache if you receive them hundreds per day. And sometimes you will buy various products which are not needed by reading those emails. This will definitely waste your hardly earned money.

If you think twice before giving your email address in public, you will be able to keep away from those troubles. I hope that you will think more about before publishing your email address in public.