Fraudulent Data Entry jobs on Webyana sites

I use the freelance job network, Elance.com. There was a job listing posted this morning....

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We are looking for huge number of worker to perform simple data entry / form filling work for long time.This is good chance for new people, no special skill required only few knowledge on computer & internet are sufficient .
We are providing online training to all our register resource and allocate the work to the as soon as training over.
Interested people can join us by registration online form filling / copy paste project on our below website to start training

website:- http://geniusjobs.webyana.com/

Note:- Registration window will remains open until vacancy get fill, so request you to register
as soon as possible to start training and become a part of our project.
Desired Skills
Admin Assistant, Computer Skills, Data Entry, Transcription, Typing
Job ID: 42236822
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When you visit the listed site, you see the company name listed as Phoenix Infotech. It tries to get you to register to become eligible for work from home, data entry jobs. Registration costs money (they say to cover administrative and server charges) and it's quite outrageous with the upper tier of registration costing $65! Things that give this away as a scam are...

1 - Very poor grammar used in the Elance posting as well as on the website.
2 - Aesthetically, the website is very remedial. Looks like something I used to create on my Angelfire account, using my WebTV, over 15 years ago during the internet boom.
3 - The website is hosted by webyana.com, a free website hosting service.
4 - The cost of registration is ridiculous. Administrative charges? They are advertising themselves as an administrative support company....really? Server charges? They are using a free website hosting service!

When I did a search for Phoenix Infotech, I found this post. Beyond replying to this post I have done the following...

1 - Reported it to Elance.com. I have used Elance for a couple of months now and hold their business in high regards. I believe once they receive report of this activity, they will respond accordingly. I asked that the posting be removed and the user banned.
2 - Reported it webyana.com. I have no experience with this business, but would expect them to honor my request to have the website removed and user banned as well.


Admin note: Split from Infotech money laundering scam - these are typical work-from-home data entry scams, different type than original topic.

Anybody have any idea if this is the same scam as reported by ahs10 above?

Sounds the same.

http:// phoenixinfotech. webyana.com/dataentryregistration

I have report the same to Webbyana and Elance.com. I also find out that the account that used to post the opening in elance, is no longer active and profile is no longer available.

I just encountered this company as well on Freelancer http://genuinejobs.webyana.com/
I can make lots of $$ if I pay anywhere between $14 and $65 for registration that is.

I new this was a scam as soon as I saw their website. The grammar is horrible!

Long Term Online Data Entry

Project Description:
It’s a very easy work any one having few internet work can do it as a part time work, given that house waives also do it in free time, I will provide the More details of once you will get selected .Hence try bid as soon as possible with proper budget so that you will be one of the selected bidder
Video training will given to all selected freelancer so that it’s very easy to work, but freelancer should have soft skill to understand it and capture that I want to work and complete project as per my acceptation.

Skills required:
BPO, Copy Typing, Data Entry, Excel

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This is the response I got within 3 minutes of bidding on the project:

mitaliinfo 3 minutes ago
Hi, Thanks for Bidding,
Selecting you as a candidate for this project, Please visit our website

http://GenuineJobs.webyana.com/
And register yourself for below project

Project Name: - Online Form Filling
Plan : - choose as per your experience and efficiency
Once done fill the registration which will given on above website and mail us on given mail id on same website , then we will provide you training material and related documents to start it .
Note:- You have to start work within 48 hours after registration

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I reported this project to Freelancer:
This is a pay to earn offer. They charge for you to register on their website http://genuinejobs.webyana.com/ Even though I was chosen for the job, the 'project' is still open. So they can cancel this project with you, but if I register then they will have my personal info.

Freelancer pulled the project!

Need to contact Paypal to block the account so if anyone fall pray to the website, at least when they tried to make the payment, there is still another round of security protection.

I have contacted Webyana and they can only help to terminate the known address but cannot stop them from creating new ones. Due Diligence is a must on our part but when the money is too good to let go, or desperate, some may still fall pray.

I have checked their paypal payment page and founds that the look of it is different from the normal checkout page that I normally seen in Paypal. Maybe I am too sceptical. One thing I didn't found from the payment checkout page is, there is no verified account indicator.

Maybe another indicator?

It is confirmed that this is a scam.

I have run a company name check for the company name listed in the website.

Genuine Infotech pte Ltd, there is no similar match currently registered in Singapore.

Genuine Infotech Pty ltd, there is a registration for GENUINE INFOTECH PRIVATE LIMITED since June 2011 in Australia but note in the website, the contact address is in London.

Genuine Infotech in UK is available for registration.

Genuine Microsystems SPC. is not registered in Bahrain.

The writing looks West African. Does he claim to be anywhere in West Africa?