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Reply to: job-785212532@craigslist.org (job-785212532@craigslist.org?subject=Hiring%20Full-time%20WRITER)
Date: 2008-08-06, 8:50AM CDT



Our company, THE RICHARDS COMPANY, specializes in creating website articles and copy for our clients. We are in need of a person who will focus exclusively on creating articles for our clients' websites. This would be a fulltime job, but can be done either from office or from your own home, provided you email us daily with your progress and work. Pay: $40,000. To apply, email us immediately. Within 30 minutes we will try to respond by sending you a test assignment....usually writing about 1,000 words. You must have that completed within a matter of several hours to qualify for an interview. NO CRIMINAL BACKGROUND please.

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<LI>Compensation: 40,000
<LI>Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
<LI>Please, no phone calls about this job!
<LI>Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.</LI>[/list]


http://greenbay.craigslist.org/wri/785212532.html
I don't know about the rest of you, but something does feel right about this job ad.

This job is a scam. I sent an email (below) with only the words "test" written and nothing else and this is the responding email.

Hi:
I got your email expressing your interest in the writing job....As you recall, the CraigsList (http://www.craigslist.org/) ad mentioned you need to complete a test assignment of 1,000 words for us to qualify for the interview. What I'm going to do is copy and paste below a list of a whole bunch of links that "Client Mr. Jones" has given us that he wants rewritten into original articles. See if you're able from that list to select TWO of the files he's given and just do a total rewrite of themt. The way he likes it done is like this: Go to the Web link and then just completely rewrite that article so that it passes COPYSCAPE. That's a program that detects duplicate phrases. The idea is to maintain the meaning of the original but using completely your own words. He likes for every article to be a minimum of 500 words....So doing two of them will equal your 1,000 words. Several of them say something like "do two versions of this, each 500 words" so if you select that link, then make both of your articles different rewrites of the same article.
So again the idea is pick ONE or TWO of these links, totally rewrite two articles so that we have 1,000 words from you and so Copyscape detects no plagiarism. Make sure each is at least 500 words... Then save it as a .rtf or .doc file with the name BABY01 or BABY23. Whatever the number is beside the link, make it BABY and that number. If you pick one of the links where you have to write two versions of the same one then make it like this: BABY41a and BABY41b. Can you do this for me? And how long do you think it will take? Here are the links...please tell me which ones you'll do

12. http://ezinearticles.com/?Making-The-Bingo-Baby-Shower-Game-So-Much-Fun&amp;id=143788
13. http://www.babyshowerscentral.com/agames.shtml
18. http://ezinearticles.com/?Baby-Shower-Games:-Three-Fun-Ideas&amp;id=294850 Try to make 500 word min
19. http://ezinearticles.com/?Baby-Shower-Games:-Fun-and-Functional!&amp;id=351973 (http://ezinearticles.com/?Baby-Shower-Games:-Fun-and-Functional!&amp;id=351973)
22. http://ezinearticles.com/?Favorite-Baby-Shower-Favors&amp;id=654541 Try to make 500 word min
23. http://ezinearticles.com/?Proper-Baby-Shower-Etiquette&amp;id=224121
25. http://ezinearticles.com/?Giving-Out-Baby-Shower-Loot-Bags&amp;id=285810 Try to make 500 word min
26. http://ezinearticles.com/?Baby-Shower-Scrapbooking-Ideas&amp;id=1087948 Try to make 500 word min
27. http://ezinearticles.com/?Controlling-Your-Baby-Shower-Budget&amp;id=1226938 (http://ezinearticles.com/?Controlling-Your-Baby-Shower-Budget&amp;id=1226938) Try to make 500 word min
28. http://ezinearticles.com/?Nursery-Rhyme-Baby-Shower-Theme&amp;id=194211
31. http://www.baby-shower.com/d-themes/index.html Need two versions 500 word min
32. http://www.baby-shower.com/sections/survival.html (http://www.baby-shower.com/sections/survival.html) Need two versions 500 word min 33. http://www.baby-shower.com/sections/money_tree.html (http://www.baby-shower.com/sections/money_tree.html) Need two versions 500 word min
34. http://www.baby-shower.com/ideas/unexpected.html Need two versions 500 word minimum
35b. http://www.baby-shower.com/sections/partyfavors.html (http://www.baby-shower.com/sections/partyfavors.html)
36. http://www.baby-shower.com/infant/decorations.html (http://www.baby-shower.com/infant/decorations.html) Need two versions 500 word min
37. http://www.baby-shower.com/infant/invitations.html (http://www.baby-shower.com/infant/invitations.html) Need two versions 500 words minimum.
39. http://www.baby-shower.com/good-hostess/1-intro.html 501 word min
40. http://ezinearticles.com/?Dozens-of-Baby-Shower-Themes&amp;id=46585 500 word min
41. http://ezinearticles.com/?Planning-a-Baby-Shower&amp;id=671709
42. http://www.babyshower101.com/baby_shower_planning.html Need whole article
43. http://www.babyshower101.com/baby_shower_gift_id

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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 07:59:50 -0700
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