How to Evaluate "Online Job" - Scam or Real?

How to Evaluate "Online Job" - Scam or Real?

Here's a transcript of an actual online job offer last week. I didn't hide any sordid details. But someone did ask me to check it out. Instead of saying scam or not, YOU decide.

Note that I destroyed the URLS below so they don't actually work.

James Botham sent you a message about the job Data Entry job:
Data Entry job jamesbotham

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$$$ THIS IS EASY DATA TYPING JOB $$$
How to start work?
Step 1:
Download the software from this link----
12.124.107.147/lepricon/owdl/ocrworker.php/ttt2_/ttt2_ocrwxxorker.XXX (this link goes outside odesk.com)
Step 2:

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User ID: A=031

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Write this user id on the downloaded software
then start typing the code simultaneously
NO NEED ANY PASSWORD
Step 3:
Working hour: 8pm to 10AM(Night time is the best time to work)
Step 4:TARGET and RATE: 

1k=$6
40k=$240 for individual
100k=$620 for TEAM
Any Question/Query if you have then ===
Visit this blog-site for Details information of this project:
http://our-technologybd.blogspot.com/2010/07/dataxxx-entry-project-7ocr.html (this link goes outside odesk.com)
so don't send me unnecessary message/questions to disturb; just visit this site to satisfy your questions

Use this link to see your previous all score/state:
http://21xx2.124.107.147/lepricon/index.php?A=PUBLICSTATS&REF=ttt2&KEY=hY3e2A (this link goes outside odesk.com)

Here's my reply to my VA Student, check out your own responses to see if you see what I see.

Dear VA Student:

Okay evaluate natin ito ha.

#1. No contract.

#2. What's the main website?  http://our-technologybd.blogspot.com/2010/07/datxxxa-entry-project-7ocr.html

#3. What did they use to create the website? 

http://our-technologybdxx.blogspot.com/2010/07/data-entry-project-7ocr.html
http://our-technologybdxx.blogspot.com

blogspot.com

#4. What is blogspot?

#5. How much does it take to create a blogspot?  Hint (How much is air?)

#6. Do YOU know how to create one?

#7. It requires you to start doing 10,000 words before paying.

#8. What's the guarantee that he'll pay when he can't even afford:

a. Graphic designer

b. A .COM domain name. ($10/year)

#9. Even if it's all legit (for example a friend of a friend says James above pays "naman"), here's my input as an expert: You're actually doing criminal work by inputting captchas (those words). The output you create is sold to criminals who use it to spam websites and blog comment sections. :)  That's why you need to work at NIGHT -since WHEN does the time of data entry important? 

[It gets technical from here on but I try to be simple]

This captcha is being generated by a forum/blog/site in the US. You experience this when you create a new account in any site or post something with the HTTP in Facebook's wall.

However the hacker/spammer is using a computer program to access that site. It's not just one site and it's not just one program. There can be millions of sites being visited by this spammer/hacker. All using computer programs that insert "illegal substance here" or "visit triple x site here" in the forums and sites that they visit.   

But these programs don't have human eyes. They don't understand the captcha. Enter YOU - you enter the captcha by using your human eyes and brain. They call it "data entry". It's more like "accessory to the crime".  

After you type the captcha, it gets sent out to the original site that is actually asking for it.  The spammer program can now enter the comment or create a new account in the website it is attacking. It's called an attack because after you enter a captcha to create a new user somewhere in the internet, that site is flooded with 300 comments all of them useless and points to some fake or illegal website.

Wonderful isn't it?

#10. So, what's your decision?

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