Just who is Amanda Winston? Hint: she’s not who she claims to be – in fact she’s not even rea
Amanda Winston is a fake name used by many fake online news sites such as Your Daily Finance and Career Journal to promote many scams that have generated a tremendous number of complaints. She claims to be a consumer trend investigator, but the only “trends” she seems to investigating are scams she wants you to sink your money into.
And if you follow her advice, you could end up losing thousands of dollars. Some “investigator”. You could do a better investigation yourself using a stack of fortune cookies and an origami chattebox…
Here is a small sample of the fake news sites that have used Amanda Winston to promote questionable work at home business opportunities:
- News 13 Jobs Report at News13JobsReport.com
- Consumer Lifestyle Weekly at ConsumerLifeStyleWeekly.com
- Finance Job Reports at FinanceJobReports.com
- Anne Williams’ Home Web Profit (a.k.a. Web Profits From Home) at HomeWebProfit.com
- Katie Smith’s Profit Masters Academy using Angela Bussio as the spokesperson – Click here for my warning
- Sally Brown’s Web Fortune Master – Click here for my warning
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Just wanted to add to this… Amanda Winston is also working as a reporter for the “Online Credit Journal”. She is promoting online working at home featuring laid off mom…Melissa Johnson from Bronx, NY who claims to be making between $5,000 to $8,000 a month. You also have people in the comment section saying how their first checks ranged between $350 – $800 dollars. Please be careful…if working online with these companies were making people have that much of a windfall….80% of the population would be working from home on their computers. If it’s too good to be true..it probably is. Count your costs and check into the matter (bible advice). Good luck!
Thanks, Michelle.
Im pretty good at identifying scammers… I think…(googling names, ip, images,etc usually works) but other than making reviews, I have no hands on them (I do enjoy replying to some of their email tho… They never reply to my “congrats you won a free iphone6!”).
But im still hoping to find a legit online job. This, I cannot find so far. Any advise on this ?
So this one is a scam??? http:// kznews7.com/finance/
Yes! Scam.
I just ran across this Amanda Winston on a website that supposedly is for Weekly Jobs Report. The one advertising 5-8K per month from home. However, when you click any of the other tabs for other categories, for instance HOME or TECH, they ALL take you to the SAME site, which is NOT part of Weekly Jobs Report. The site they link to is https://www.37clicks.com/nl/ a sign up to work from home web site.
This Amanda is definitely a scam
Thanks, Ted!
She’s also got an add as a mother named Melissa Johnson from edmonton alberta canada.. an add saying she makes 8000 a Mon.
Melissa johson live in montreal, canada to , pouahahaha what a scam , they sais she lives in Candiac , UK, BRonx
also here in oz. With a mum Melissa Johnson from Lyndhurst in Victoria.
So glad I saw this! I read the entire “report” on this and questioned it the entire time! Also, when it popped up on my browser, it said Melissa Johnson lives in Carrollton, GA (Where I live) so that alone shows it’s a scam. What a piece of work. Thank you for sharing!
Funnily enough Meliss johnson also lives in Queensland Australia, thats where i’m from!! what are the odds??
I may have been born during the day, but it wasn’t yesterday….
haha guys, it seems like Melissa Johnson changed her name to Maria Shutova check this out http://www.careerjournalonline.com/newsupdate/workfromhome/015clk/intl_leadgen/europe/?subid1=yhapac-eu1-cz#.
Def a scam! I was about to deposit, however haven’t finished the registration yet, but then after 1 min the phone rang and ppl from Millionaire Blueprint was calling me!
There is no such a way as “get rich fast”.
In your investigations have you found any of these work-at-home job oppertunities to actually work?
If you are trying to find regular work at home jobs and/or freelancing site, I would join a couple of the free sites here:
/work-at-home-jobs/
They provide ongoing home job/freelancing leads as well as a community where you can ask other people about their experience with companies.
Has Melissa Johnson moved? I forgot to enable popup blocker and looked what happened.
Melissa Johnson from Saint Paul, Minnesota
Ha!
again Melissa Johnson from Suva, Fiji…This is definitely a scam!thanx Paul
Melissa is now living in Northridge, Ca
I’m afraid you’re mistaken – she definitely lives in Basingstoke, UK!
:-)
“She” recently wrote an article about a woman who supposedly had all of this tremendous success with a work from home opportunity, and the person she wrote the story about was supposed to be from my small home town! So of course I start to research the business woman, and lo and behold, there isn’t anyone in this town by that name…what a surprise.
Michelle is a well traveled woman! She has turned up in Canberra, Australia! Complete with photo of her and a small prop.
http://www.careerjournalonline.org/newsupdate/workfromhome/vc/0a34jkm/au/
Ha!
That fake news site is showing Melissa Johnson for me. Is it showing Michelle Withrow for you?
The first clue is that the “Toronto mom” appears to be living in the USA from the address on the cheque!
Ha. Good catch!
Hey Paul. Please keep exposing these frauds. I see the adds and just wonder how many people who can’t afford to be scammed, actually give these bastards money. Keep up the great work.
Thanks, Millie.
Paul.
I see Melissa Johnson is now from Dublin Ireland.She gets around.
Thanks.
Ha.
American cheques always have the month first and then day and year. The cheque here is wrongly dated.
Christy
Good catch!
Just a few thoughts…
1) Paul, keep up the good fight.
2) “Kim Swartz” is in Casselberry, FL as of Sept. 14, 2014. I wonder if the people that are actually named Kim Swartz are considering legal name changes… and the Michelle Robinsons, etc.
3) Notice how the “deadline” for the 75% offer is always within the next 24-48 hours so you hurry up and blow your money.
4) The “testimonials” which I read tonight (dated between Sept. 7-14, 2014) are extremely similar (possibly word for word) to what I recall in testimonials a few weeks ago…complete with miss-spelllingz, pore gramar/werd choys.
5) To confirm for yourself that the ad is a fraud, print or do screen shots of the testimonial comments today, wait 3-4 weeks and then search for the ad again (I have found it on more than job posting board). My bet is that the testimonials will be the exact same but with the dates changed. Unless of course the people running the scam read my comments and hire someone to come up with completely new set of bogus comments for every day.
Regardless, Paul…back to comment 1 :)
Cheers
Thanks, Bill. I’ve seen a couple of fake names be an issue for people with those same names. You are completely correct about the testimonials being the same across sites.
Some of these scam sites have used testimonials that can be found in past FTC complaints. You can see one of those sites here:
/profit-masters-academy-scam-analy
(Profit Masters Academy and their other sites were eventually shut down).
Good job Paul. I just wonder who is behind the scam…?
There are several different scammers that have used the name, including some that ran sites shut
down by the FTC.
/profit-masters-academy-scam-analysis/
This Michelle Johnson is indeed a well travelled woman, she is also residing in Soweto, South Africa.
Ha.
“Melissa Johnson from Mitcham never thought that she would work online”.
She now lives in Mitcham – Croydon in UK!! :)
Ha. Thanks for checking her in here. lol.
it says on the ad Melissa Johnson live in Auckland New Zealand. Can someone help me to understand if these online work from home business actually true???? Im getting confused
That one isn’t. If you are looking for a business, I recommend this:
http://michaelbrown.1minutesites.com/waht-2/
Melissa Johnson now lives in Hayes, UK! Thanks for creating this website and I just about to fill in that short form on the scam website advancing income and then I found you!!!!
http://www.theworkathomewoman.com/tag/melissa-johnson/ She live now in Skopje – Macedonia :)
Melissa Johnson is now living in Cape Town and is advertising on facebook.
Sorry she has j
ust turned up in Abu Dhabi, UAE!!!
That is the most recent link ..i found that link when i looked for a job at home…that was really suprised me was 1).at the bottom of the site that of Kim s, there is a link name Michelle s Brown
work at home revenue and when you click and listen carefully to the video and watch he said his name is Thomas Edwards….that lady she advertise that site all around the world changing her name ,posting different pictures some old some most recent and the main text is the same most of the time( very few changes). 2)I live in UK and i saw the cheque has wrong date …first the month and then the day…cause she supposed to cashed in sterling pounds and not in dollars.And the most important if they are millionaire s why they not have a good official website?
Be carefull its too good to be true….they use fake names fake photos-scam..better suspicious and safe.
It seems like melissa johnson is everywhere!
Amanda Winston is now writing about an Emily Walker from Liverpool in UK who signed up to Online income Blast. She cleverly uses the banner names of Telegraph.co.uk; FT.com and the BBC to convince people the blog is genuine.
London 22 July 2015.
Interesting. Thanks for the update.
Amanda Winston is now writing in careerjournalonline.com about a Maria Shutova from Hengelo, Netherlands and at the same time I read the same story in newsonline.nl about the same Maria Shutova, not from Hengelo this time but now from Rotterdam, Netherlands with all the same pictures.
who’s behind this dirty trick? they should be sewed and nailed.
The site careerjournalonline.com is a total joke. Try to click on the menus on the top or to register and leave a comment. This is so totally a SCAM, but I am curious how the article got to yahoo’s news section.
Amanda Winston article http://www.onlinewealthreport.com/ is now about Greek mom ;) even though the article caracter has a name that is definitelly not greek -Melissa Johnson
Another interesting facts are stolen identities of people that supposedly are commenting on this post.Try to click on the first one: Posted by Simon and you’ll end up on someone’s profile, that doesn’t match the pictures displayed.
And of course all the comment are posted few hours ago. View the code source and you’ll see that the comments has been created in 2012.
Watch out people.
Wow!! Melissa Johnson really gets around. She’s been spotted on Racine Wisconsin, Denver Colorado and Toronto Canada all at the same time. Thanks for the sound advice. Unfortunately her ad was on a reputable site. I will be much more cautious in the future.
Guess what folkes, Ms Melissa Johnson also lives in the British Virgin Islands. She sure gets around! Must be able to do all these exotic from all that money she makes!
lol.
Amanda Winston is now working for careernewsonline. and as for Melissa Johnson from London I can not work out where she lives, but she must be a Millionaire the amount of places she lives.
She works for the BBC, The Telegraph plus others, makes me wonder if they are all the same person.
Thanks for the information is very useful and a wonderful way of avoiding being scammed on the internet.
Thank you, Paul. My husband and I came across this ONLINE JOBS TODAY website with headline “Work From Home Opportunities Have Been Featured On: Fox News, MSNBC, USA TODAY, ABC, CNN”, offering a “Certified, Proven Work From Home Opportunity To Make Up to $379 Per Day!” …. with Amanda Winston’s endorsement article for “Mary Stevens from , ” it omitted where Mary’s from :) Guess we’re going to pass on this FUN job!
why the time difference? I just posted it, it’s Sunday 11/29 at 8:35 p.m. East Coast, USA It shows 11/30 at 1:33 a.m.
Hi, just wondering if you have any legit online marketing or other ways to make money online? Always been curious but to afraid to pursue. Thanks.
Jason