Have you heard of TypeInternational?

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I found this site and signed up with their type assignments but what I found was a lot of busy work with little pay. The "jobs" offered by Type International are mainly of 2 varieties:Paid-per-Response Typist A paid-per-response typist gets list of forums and message boards (like this one) and is required to enter ads for Type International and other work-at-home scammers on those boards/forums. They are then "paid per click" on the embedded links in those ads. Typically $0.15 per click. So they are basically SPAMMING for Type International. Note that those spam messages leave behind the IP address that they are spammed from... which is NOT the IP address of Type International, but the IP address of the "innocent" worker-at-home. When enough spam has been posted one or more boards/forums will eventually report the spamming to the ISP responsible for that IP address, and the worker-at-home may lose his/her Internet account. When complaints are filed against Type International (because it is THEIR URL that was spammed, they will claim that they can't do anything about that, because it was affiliate spam, and they "can't control were our affiliate's message are posted". In order to be allowed to start spamming mesasge boards and forum on behalf of Type International, you first have to pay them a non-refundable registration fee of $59.95. Research Typist This one is even worse. To understand this one completely you need to know that spammers use sophisticated software (called "spiders") to constantly and automatically browse the internet in search of email addresses (but alse mail addresses, phone numbers and fax numbers) as new targets for their spam. Basically those "spiders" search for everything that looks like me@privacy.net. A lot of people have become smart about posting their email addresses online in this way, and instead write things like me[at]privacy[dot]net, or even elaborate things like menospam@privacy.net[remove "nospam" before emailing]. While some "spiders" are smart enough to find and decipher some of those disguises, in most cases they work reasonably well. So, that's were the research typists comes in: they are required to browse the internet, message boards, forums, etc in search of such disguised email addresses, and report those back to Type International. They get paid per address. In order to be able to start this immoral job, you first have to pay Type International a non-refundable registration fee of $37.95. Be careful with these work at home ads, they just want your money!