As I was cruising around the internet looking for a job today I stumbled across a website for a company called Academia-Research. It sure looked good too, but it turned out to be a scam. Natasha suggest I type their name into google followed by complaints, and man do you get a lot of bad press about these guys.
They promise to pay a real good salary up to $20 per page, but when you look into it people have been burn by them a few times.
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Yeah, you have to be so careful with internet companies. There are some good ones, but then again, there are some real stinkers.
ReplyDeleteI find putting in their names and "complaints" is a good search term--with companies or products, you can get a better sense of if what you're looking at is legitimate or not...