Is Cathy Banks Auction Work At Home legitimate?

Answer 1

Cathy Banks Work At Home works like this:

1.You pay Cathy Banks $197

2. she helps set you up with online auction selling or reselling products

Be very wary of internet opportunities to 'MAKE MONEY'

The internet is full of fraud and scams so it may be best to learn how to do it yourself!

E-bay has a discussion board about scams like this:

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/forum.jspa?forumID=107

you can click on the link below. ****** : Cathy Banks claims to be "the #1 work at home consultant in North America". If this is the case, I would have expected a tireless search on the internet of her name to produce some results. The only listings I received were from her advertisement. Other than that, she does not seem to exist. : The advertisement is distributed by a company called Chapa Media, inc. Chapa's terms and disclaimers for their subscribers (Cathy Banks, if that's her real name, is one)completely resolve them of any responsibility regarding the adds that they distribute. This alone should send up a red flag. : The discussion page from E-bay, referred to above, outlines a scam by which unsuspecting persons list items on E-bay, using their personal accounts, for third party customers. They are, in fact, paid for these listings to start with. Things, however, quickly turn sour when the items listed are not delivered. : The upshot of this is that the company that pays you $5 per listing receives the "clean money" from the auction, and your credit card, which is listed in your personal E-bay account, gets back-charged for the price of the item when the innocent E-bayer demands their money back. By the time you try to contact your employer, they are long gone. : I can not say for sure that this is one of those scams, but any company that claims that they can make you rich, regardless of the fact that you have no skills, is yanking your chain big time. Good luck all. I looked all over the Better Business Bureau national site. I found absolutely nothing that had to do with "Cathy Banks" or "Cathy Banks Auction Work At Home". She is not registered with them. My gold standard for any business that wants my money before they do anything for me is that they should be registered with the BBB. SHE IS DEFINITELY NOT!! Since it is apparently extremely difficult to add a question to this website, or I just haven't figured it out yet, I am going to contribute the BBB listing for 2008 Top Ten Work at Home link below that lists a business called Underground Cash Secret. Here is the complete listing: Primary Contact: Michael Vincent

Customer Service Contact:

BBB Accredited Status: none

The Underground Cash Secret

(216)000-0000

5196 Richmond Road

Bedford, OH 44146

Work-At-Home Cos.

Business Opportunity Cos.

Internet Marketing Services

This is NOT a BBB Accredited business. According to information in the BBB files, as of January 3, 2008, the company and website known as www.theundergroundcashsecret.NET is no longer in business. The law firm representing the company, Roth Bierman LLP, informed the BBB on November 27, 2007 that the company had ceased operation. Based on the BBB's file experience, www.theundergroundcashsecret.NET went out of business with no complaints. If you have an unresolved dispute with the company you may wish to seek legal advice. PLEASE NOTE: In September of 2008 the Cleveland BBB began receiving calls from consumers indicating the company was indeed still in operation. The law firm, Roth Bierman LLP, has clarified Underground Cash Secret is one of several marketing campaigns operated by an Akron, Ohio based company known as NSA Technologies, LLC. According to Roth Bierman LLP, the campaign known as www.theundergroundcashsecret.COM, is totally different than the now-defunct campaign with the similar name. A separate report for NSA Technologies, LLC, may be obtained by calling the Akron BBB at 330-253-4590 or by checking the BBB's website at www.bbb.org. This business does not meet BBB criteria for a satisfactory or unsatisfactory rating. Any BBB concerns about the business are stated in the report. The BBB processed no complaints about this business since the firm's BBB file was opened in November of 2007. Educational/General Comments The following general information is provided after all reports on companies making work-at-home offers. Every day, ads for work-at-home jobs appear in newspapers across the country as well as in national magazines and on the Internet. Some of the offers include stuffing envelopes, assembling products, reading books, reviewing movies, medical billings, or selling advertising on the Internet.

The BBB suggests using extreme caution when responding to any such offer. While ads claim high earnings and short hours with little or no experience, BBB files nationwide indicate no evidence of anyone making the promised money. Rarely, if ever, are these ads an offer of legitimate employment. Generally, these jobs require up-front fees for information or supplies, and only the person who ran the ad makes any money.

You should be aware that the United States Postal Inspectors regularly investigate these fraudulent schemes, and that you risk investigation and possible prosecution by postal or other law enforcement agencies if you become involved in one of these schemes.

ID: 16006370

Report as of: 12/4/2008 15:50

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Copyright: 2008 The BBB, Inc. I had not until I received her email. Looked good so I sent the $100+ dollars and have never been able to log onto the actual site to do anything. Hummmmm, looks like a scam to me. From another contributor Cathy Banks advertises that you can earn $13.00 by posting products for companies and earn upwards and beyond of $195.00 a day. First you are asked to join for $197.00 when you don't another window pops up and now you can join for $147.00 imagine that !!! I paid the 197.00 said I could (not knowing about the second offer) start to make money in minutes after I sign up ( i knew it was not that fast). Well what do you know i get directed to a site, right away I might add, that now I have to go buy a domain name, build a website and on and on and on !!!. I don't have any experience doing that but there are people that will help me for another fee of coarse. You guessed it another couple hundred dollars or more when all is said and done. I try to go back to the original site but low and behold I can't get back there. So I go to my e-mail check my in box and spam folder just to be sure for my verification or maybe a welcome letter that you get from just about anything you respond to nowadays. Nothing. So I call the 800 number they don't work on Sunday but they take my money on Sunday

So I wait till Monday call one of the numbers and it is not even the same company, they give me another 800 number. When I do get the phone to ring I am told to call back Wednesday because it is flooding in Chicago. Fact is I still do not know if I have the right 800 number. This is the good part, about 5 pm I get a phone call from Chris whom represents Auctions work at home. He wants to sell me something else, he will train me IF I QUALIFY FOR THEIR PROGRAM !!!!. OH YEA A FEW MORE THOUSAND SO I CAN BE ONE OF THEIR SUCCESS STORIES, IF I QUALIFY AND HAVE A BIG CREDIT LINE ON MY CREDIT CARD

So I tell Chris what has happened thinking hey give them the benefit of doubt and maybe he can point me in the right direction. Take a guess ??? He doesn't know anything about it or who to call so he gives me the 800 number to customer service, the same one that didn't work before. That's my experience with this FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY THAT IS A BAIT AND SWITCH TO GET MORE MONEY FROM ME THAT I DON'T HAVE. So I decided I am going down to Staples today buy me some pencils and stand by the High School and sell them, I think I can make more money that way. from other contributors: * Cathy Banks auctionworkathome is a scam they won't give me my money back or tell me how to get were I can start set up since I was pulled away last night and couldn't finish * This Cathy Banks Work at Home is a fraud. I signed up and wanted my money back, the same as illustrated above. They said it would take some time. DO NOT SPEND YOUR MONEY ON THIS FRAUD.