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		<title>New Work-at-Home Regulations Offer Consumers More Protections</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Effective March 1, amendments to the Federal Trade Commission’s Business Opportunity Rule go into effect. The changes implement new disclosures that work-at-home businesses must provide to ensure consumers have the appropriate information they need when considering a work-at-home program. For decades, Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona has heard from consumers scammed out of money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumers Allege Phoenix-based Web Media Malls, ITech Financial Took Thousands from Unemployed, Senior Citizens</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona is warning potential investors to be on the alert for unsolicited phone calls from salespeople offering to set them up with web-based stores or other Internet business ventures. Consumers nationwide say they lost hundreds or thousands of dollars to telemarketers who took their credit card information in exchange for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBB Warns of Three Tucson Work-from-Home Companies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick LaFleur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Tucson’s unemployment rate hovers around 8.5 percent, Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona is warning consumers of three Tucson-based work-from-home companies that are soliciting consumers with questionable offers for employment. BBB received a complaint against one company, Sweet Success Publications, in which a Maryland consumer, Mary Norris, said that she sent the company $30 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBB Warns Against Online Ads for Acai Diet Pills and Work from Home Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick LaFleur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Better Business Bureau is warning consumers to be wary of free trial offers online for diet pills, work at home jobs and teeth whiteners among other products and services. In this year alone, BBB has received thousands of complaints from consumers across the country who thought they were getting a free trial, but ended up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scammers Target Job Hunters in Weak Economy, Warns Better Business Bureau</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick LaFleur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the unemployment rate hovers around 10 percent, Better Business Bureau warns that scammers are taking advantage of the opportunity by preying on the unemployed. Identifying the common red flags of a scam is one way for job hunters to protect themselves and their wallet. According to the Labor Department, new jobless claims in mid-August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pacific Publications Racks up Complaints, Inquiries from Job Seekers</title>
		<link>http://tucsoncitizen.com/bbbconsumeralert/2010/07/28/pacific-publications-racks-up-complaints-inquiries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick LaFleur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona is alerting consumers to Pacific Publications, an online company that purports to sell a “genuine” employment opportunity, in which consumers can make money from home by stuffing and mailing envelopes. Using two Web sites, www.pacificpubs.com and www.funsimplework.com, Pacific Publications claims that for $42-$50 consumers will be paid $5 for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two New Work-at-Home Re-Shipping Scams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 23:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick LaFleur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two BBBs have recently issued warnings about work-at-home scams offering work that involves shipping packages overseas.  The first scam is to be a “gift wrapper” for Best Buy; the second, to be a “mail manager” for an online company. BBB serving Minnesota and North Dakota reports that the name of the major retailer Best Buy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBB Warns that iPad Scammers Are Already at Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick LaFleur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even before the iPad was released to the public, scammers were busy devising ways to take advantage of early adopters. Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona warns eager shoppers to stay away from offers to become a “tester” just to get a free iPad. Apple announced the iPad in January and US customers were able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Workers Needed—Don’t Apply. BBB Warns of Google and Twitter Work at Home Schemes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick LaFleur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through Tweets, email and websites, job hunters are being told that they can make lots of money from the comfort of home using Twitter and Google. Better Business Bureau warns that the large print for such offers may promise big returns but the fine print can cost them every month. “Websites often use the Twitter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Company Promises $5,000 in Exchange for Your Signature</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick LaFleur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Better Business Bureau of Southern Arizona is alerting consumers to a scam involving a promise of thousands of dollars in exchange for answering a simple math question and a signature. A Newington, Connecticut man told BBB he knew it was a scam the moment he read the letter from UBI Payment Services’ “Accounting Department” in [...]]]></description>
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