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BBB report on Type International: Company rating: F
We strongly question the company?s reliability for reasons such as that they have failed to respond to complaints, their advertising is grossly misleading, they are not in compliance with the law?s licensing or registration requirements, their complaints contain especially serious allegations, or the company?s industry is known for its fraudulent business practices.
DBA: Type International
Other DBAs:
Type International
Type America
Type International
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www.typeinternational.com
Address:
1647 Tam O'Shanter Plaza
Palm Springs, CA 92264
Other Addresses:
1647 Tam O'Shanter Plaza
Palm Springs, CA 92264
1647 Tam O'Shanter Plaza
Palm Springs, CA 92264
1710 North Fuller Avenue Suite 421
Los Angeles, CA 90046-3065
1710 North Fuller Avenue Suite 421
Los Angeles, CA 90046-3065
2234 Oak Street
Los Angeles, CA 90097
229-2416 Mail Street
Vancouver, BC V5T3E2
4426 Wyne Crescent
Richmond, CN V6V 2T2
P.O. Box 9808
Marina Del Rey, CA 90295
Website:
http://www.mailingcir...
Other Websites:
http://www.mailingcir...
http://www.rbsnservic...
http://www.typeintern...
http://www.workathome...
BBB Comments and Analysis
We advise against sending money to this company. This company is advertising via the internet a work-at-home offer. Their actual business is deceptive advertising designed to entice the public to send fees to get started. Addresses given are usually mail drops, advertised phone numbers reach recordings and calls are not returned, and no local phone numbers are listed. Most work-at-home companies advertise in states other than where they are located so as to avoid prosecution. Most of these offers are made in conjunction with a money-back guarantee, but our experience is that few customers are able to obtain refunds despite the guarantee.
Complaint Experience
Complainants allege the company misrepresents an employment opportunity to be a typist at home in order to collect the registration fee in advance. After sending in fees, complainants receive information to place similar advertisements, or emails to encourage others to repeat the offer. Most complainants allege they received nothing. One customer states they were not paid for services rendered. Others allege the company does not return phone calls, or respond to e-mails.
Company responds to some complaints by stating they have a strong no refund policy on non-tangible merchandise. In one case, the company issued a refund. The "jobs" offered by Type International are mainly of 2 varieties: Paid-per-Response TypistA paid-per-response typist gets list of forums and message boards (like this one) and is required to enter ads for Type International and other work-at-home scammers on those boards/forums. They are then "paid per click" on the embedded links in those ads. Typically $0.15 per click. So they are basically SPAMMING for Type International. Note that those spam messages leave behind the IP address that they are spammed from... which is NOT the IP address of Type International, but the IP address of the "innocent" worker-at-home. When enough spam has been posted one or more boards/forums will eventually report the spamming to the ISP responsible for that IP address, and the worker-at-home may lose his/her Internet account. When complaints are filed against Type International (because it is THEIR URL that was spammed, they will claim that they can't do anything about that, because it was affiliate spam, and they "can't control were our affiliate's message are posted". In order to be allowed to start spamming mesasge boards and forum on behalf of Type International, you first have to pay them a non-refundable registration fee of $59.95. Research TypistThis one is even worse. To understand this one completely you need to know that spammers use sophisticated software (called "spiders") to constantly and automatically browse the internet in search of email addresses (but alse mail addresses, phone numbers and fax numbers) as new targets for their spam. Basically those "spiders" search for everything that looks like me@privacy.net. A lot of people have become smart about posting their email addresses online in this way, and instead write things like me[at]privacy[dot]net, or even elaborate things like menospam@privacy.net [remove "nospam" before emailing]. While some "spiders" are smart enough to find and decipher some of those disguises, in most cases they work reasonably well. So, that's were the research typists comes in: they are required to browse the internet, message boards, forums, etc in search of such disguised email addresses, and report those back to Type International. They get paid per address. In order to be able to start this immoral job, you first have to pay Type International a non-refundable registration fee of $37.95.
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