Has anyone ever heard of Msb Associates?

Question

It is like a data entry job that you can work on at home. The fee they require is seventeen dollars for material. They do give a reason for the small fee, and I have written to them. They emailed me back with a response.

I have been looking online for actual legitimate businesses, and this seems ok, but I have not gotten into it either.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

I found a cached message board posting about a scam being run by MSB Associates. I found this by searching Google using the phrase "MSB Associates" and adding the word home to my search. (trying to pick up sites that mention working from home) I have written more of a response below the dotted line at the bottom. Anyway, here is the text of that message re: MSB Associates' scam:

"I just wanted everyone who all ready didn't know, that this 'job opportunity' from [e-mail] is really a SCAM. I found this out the hard way. I purchased the training materials and when I got them, it flat out tells you to advertise all over the web. And can you guess what your advertisement is? The same advertisement that is on their website. The one I responded to thinking that I was actually going to be doing data entry. The "guarantee" that with your first job you make your money back, is sort of true, if you you get another sucker like me to answer the ad wanting training materials. Below are some quotes that are from the 'training materials' I received. But this is just a little bit of it, if anyone needs to see more, let me know and I can email them to you---for a one time fee of $16.00---lol-- just kidding--for free. There was also a file in the training materials where you can sign up to be a secret shopper and it gives you several companies, and some of those I believe are actually legit, but there are several that no longer exist.

Anyway, here is some of the "training materials"






To get you started making money, we have some simple steps for you to follow. Your first steps are to place ads similar to the one you responded to.

- First Step: How to place ads
In order for anyone to respond to you about this opportunity, you must place an ad on the Internet, again, similar to the one you responded to. Use one of your own or one from the Reference Section A. You may need to retype it and put it into your own words. You can place your ads on Yahoo, Google, just to name a few. There are literally hundreds of places to place your ads for free! Remember the more ads you place the more exposure you will have and the more orders you will have emailed to you. I cannot stress this enough: DO a search in any major search engine like Google.com or Yahoo.com for "free job postings" or "free job sites" and that should give you more than enough to get started. When you're on those sites always look at their "links" and this will give you opportunity for more sites. Each site will walk you through the process of placing your own ad. Some places will require you to register with them; you will need to do this to post your ads. The information that you provide them with will not be in your ad unless you want it to be. You will definitely get responses, and you will definitely be processing orders right away! When I got started, I got responses four hours after I placed my first ad. Believe me, everyone's mailboxes are always full.

Use the examples in Reference Section A as a guideline for the ad you will place. PUT IT INTO YOUR OWN WORDS!
Good luck and start placing the ads as soon as possible and at as many places you can find. (See Reference Section B)
SECTION 2: First Response Letter
Now that you've placed your ads and your mailbox is overflowing with inquiring minds, use the following letter (once again as a guideline – use your own words) to respond, and be prompt about it. Remember, people are waiting to make money, just like you.

There is a "One Time Non-Refundable Fee" of $15.75. (or whatever you decide to charge for your information, if you charge $20.00 the following example works. If you charge $10.00 then adjust the counting examples above as well as the one time fee. Be sure that when you send out this letter you remove all the BLUE text.) The cost will cover the training materials sent to you. Once you process your very first order you will have made back this fee "GUARANTEED


Okay, you've posted your jobs, you've responded to people with an initial letter telling them more about the job. Let them know that all of their questions will be answered in the training material and that there is a guarantee that they will make back what they put into it the very first time they process an order (which is the truth); okay, let's move on.
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You'll be hard pressed to find legitimate businesses that will pay you to work from home. A lot of people would love to do easy work from home, so a lot of unscupulous individuals dangle a carrot in front of gullible noses. All you have to do is send them some money, which you'll do, and you'll either get no materials back, or the materials will be useless. Your data entry job from MSB Associates could be a scam.

Here's a site about work-at-home scams from the National Consumer's League Internet Fraud Watch
http://www.fraud.org/tips/internet/workathome.htm

Work at Home Schemes from the Better Business Bureau
http://www.bbb.org/Alerts/article.asp?ID=436

Work-at-Home scams from the Federal Trade Commission
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/invest/homewrk.htm

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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