Complaint Review: My Flexi Job - Internet

A previous report has noted the basics about My Flexi Job. It purports to be a company which hires data entry clerks to wok online to process trial offers for large companies. It claims to offer a respectable rate of pay, approx $23 per hour.

In order to qualify to work, the applicant is required to download a file backup program from My PC Backup. The claim is that the fee for joining this $25 is credited back to you and will be covered by your first pay check.  Once this is dowloaded and a verification submitted to My Flex Job they allow you to enter the pool to look at supposed jobs.

These 'jobs' consist of entering your OWN data, and credit card number on trial offer sites. Many of these say right up front that you receive no 'work credits' if you cancel within 30 days. This is a pure rip off for My Flexi Job to harvest the comissions for signing up new customers (the supposed workers) to these trial products.

If anyone is proceeding at this point - once they see that they need to sign themselves up to the trial offers, they could run into real trouble and end up with God knows what charged to their card, and endless spam email too.

HOWEVER - THIS IS NOT ALL

If a search is done of 'My PC Backup Virus' it will be seen that this supposed file backup program is actually malware. Particularly virulent and difficult to remove malware.

ALSO between My Flex Job and My PC Backup the frauds have your credit card number, your mailing address, your date of birth, your full name.

Step one, if you have fallen for this, is to cancel the credit card you used to make the purchase with My PC Backup immediately. Follow your card providers steps to report fraud against the card. I would not suggest waiting and trying to get a refund, it is more important to protect your card against possible further charges.

Step Two is to get the malware off your computer. I would suggest seeing the site malwaretips.com/blog

A Google of 'My PC Backup Virus' will reveal a link where the process is explained and legitimate free downloads of software to assist you are avialiable.

I unistalled the program within less than an hour and ran my own antivirus program - Avast. A scan with that reveled nothing.

I downloaded the first suggested program on Malware Tips site 'Adware Remove'. That located 6 or 7 things on my registry related to My PC Backup and removed them.

I then downloaded the JRT Junkware Removal program as suggested and ran that. That found 3- or 4 more items on my computer related to this program.

I next dowloaded the Malware Scan - that came up clean.

This My PC Backup software had only been on my computer for under an hour. It did not just uninstall in a legitimate fashion.

Net reserach will reveal that much fraudulent behavior is associated with My PC Backup. Making further charges to card numbers they have, issuing threats to delete people's files. Have a look.

Also that some technicians who deliberately downloaded this and studied how it affected the computer found it installing one piece of malware after another onto the system. These are no doubt trying to do things such as detect passwords users have on sites like Amazon etc.

This is a very serious two pronged scam. Most people - in the complaints I have read on line - are overlooking the My PC Backup role in this - which is the worst part. These people need to be shut down and all credit card companies needed to be warned to put My PC Backup on a fraud list.