“First, I would like to make something very clear. We are NOT a get-rich-quick company.”

I got this unsolicited job offer in an email recently and there’s a good chance many of you got the same one. How do I know this? Because it was addressed to my email, telleve@hotmail.com, and to terryemerick@comcast.net, terryemerick@hotmaik.com, test@hotmail.com. Clearly, some computer program is spitting out emails like this.

Why? Because they are scams and scammers usually throw out hundreds, even thousands of bogus lines until they catch something. Unfortunately, they’ve been catching a lot lately because many of you are desperate for money in this economy, and scammers know that so they’ve been working in over drive. (more…)