Better Business Bureau: Habitat for Humanity used in work-at-home scam
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- Better Business Bureau: Habitat for Humanity used in work-at-home scam
- With Jobs Tight MBAs Head for Home
- What Work-at-Home Scams Look Like
- Home-Building Star NVR Has Positive First Quarter
- Denver mulls permits for home business owners
Better Business Bureau: Habitat for Humanity used in work-at-home scam
Wisbusiness.com
The Wisconsin Better Business Bureau is issuing an alert regarding a current work-at-home scam using a well-known charity Habitat for Humanity. The Wisconsin BBB was notified by a consumer who answered an advertisement in her local newspaper for a work-at-home job as a Regional Donations Coordinator for Habitat for Humanity International. She applied for the job via email and was accepted. She was sent a check which she was told was a donation and was instructed to keep $350 of it as her payment and wire the remainder to another Habitat for Humanity official who was said to be in charge of home construction projects. Unfortunately the check was counterfeit.
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With Jobs Tight MBAs Head for Home
Wall Street Journal
The only solution he has is to go back to his accounting roots. “It’s a tough pill to swallow but I’ve come to the conclusion that I can’t sit and wait and cross my fingers” he says. The majority of students at top business schools attend the programs as a way to boost their skills to change careers. This year making that happen has turned into a nearly impossible task. And that means a significant number of soon-to-be grads who entered school back in 2007 are being forced back to their pre-M.
What Work-at-Home Scams Look Like
U.S. News & World Report
5 percent unemployment rate uncertain economic future and a growing population of part-time workers who need more money to pay bills. Some work-at-home job scams are relatively easy to eyeball but the level of sophistication is growing. Here the FBI offers some guidance on. f course if and when the materials do come they are totally worthless…and you’re stuck with the bill.
Home-Building Star NVR Has Positive First Quarter
Wall Street Journal
(NVR) actually made money in its first quarter a rare feat in a troubled sector. But investors should think carefully before calling a bottom: Unlike several peers Reston Va. -based NVR’s business model avoids land ownership a move that has buffered it through the housing downturn as home and land values plummet. That likely makes the results an anomaly: Several builders.
Denver mulls permits for home business owners
Cedar Valley Daily Times
After two more public hearings rates for the proposed permits will take center stage. Denver City Administrator Larry Farley tentatively estimates a $10 to $15 cost in line with Sumner’s $10 charge and Shell Rock’s $25 fee. Like these towns Denver would require entrepreneurs working from home to renew the permits annually.
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