HomeworkPays.co.uk – Updated Information

UPDATE: This site, below, appears to have been replaced with a new one at http://www.earncashathome.co.uk/

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http://www.homeworkpays.co.uk/

“I will show you how to make a combined average of £15,248 a month or your money back and you can do it working less than 2 hours a day” …  “And the beauty is they will cost you nothing to set up, all you have to do is sit back and wait for the money to come rolling in!!! It won’t cost you the earth to try this, so just click “buy it now” and start right now! By following the steps in the guide you will easily make an extra £5,000 per week within 60 days and you won’t risk a thing!” … “Remember this is a …*** GUARANTEED OPPORTUNITY ***”

We have contacted the owners of this “get rich quick” scheme, but they felt unable to offer us any assurances or details of their package, in confidence, nor were they willing to confirm details of any of the “testimonies” (we think they mean “testimonials”!) they show on the site here.

Under the circumstances, we therefore have our suspicions on the legitimacy of the scheme and are passing our findings onto the West Midlands Police, her ISP at Fasthosts and the Office of Fair Trading.

(UPDATE: Many thanks for all the details from readers – these have been passed, in confidence, to the same authorities and we will update you on progress, as the investigations continue.)

Interstingly, our emails were never replied to, yet people sending money to the same email address report getting their “packs” – see below – in a few minutes or hours.

The site is seemingly owned by

Donna Burch

B74 4HN (Update: Postcode now updated)

She also uses the PO Box numbered 13444, B73 9HA, but this still relates, fraudulently, to an address she no longer has access to. Currently, you are unable to contact the Burch’s, therefore, if you wished to obtain, for example, a refund.

If you have come across Donna in anyway – or her husband David – perhaps via any other schemes she operates, we’d be grateful if you would let us know.

UPDATED: She has lived at (the former) address, a newly built semi detached, with a particularly large garage, since April 2003, when it was bought for £170,000. UPDATE: The new house, bought in July 2008m, cost £497,000).

She originally traded as North Hill Marketing and the domain was originally registered to David Burch, who was sentenced to 4 years and 6 months for his part in a fraud. UPDATE: (Still trading as North Hill Marketing and Northhill Marketing)

To get your “package”, you need to supply your credit card details, your full name and sex, your address and phone number – and agree to her terms and conditions, which, surprise, surprise, aren’t displayed anywhere.

Oh, do you want to know what you get for your £39.50?
Well, OK – but prepare to be disappointed!
You get an email back with 3 documents poorly presented in Microsoft Word, 2 spreadsheets and a PDF.
The four methods which Donna Burch insists will make you thousands every week are:
1) A betting scheme – make 3% a day. The idea is that you increase your bets by 3% a day and you can turn £10 into over £400,000 in just 1 year. Apparently.
(2) Sell eBooks on eBay…(No, I couldn’t believe it, either)
(3) A football pools betting system – particularly badly explained, and with the high chance of losing a lot of money.
4) and how, allegedly, you can make £100 per hour by taking online surveys.

I’m disappointed that Nochex is supporting this scheme – I’m awaiting a response from them and will update this page when I have it.

Nochex insist that anything to do with the following are not allowed (note my italics!):

* Currency, bullion or prepaid debit/credit cards
* Encouragement of racism, violence or terrorism
* Gambling, betting or lotteries
* Mail order or telephone order
* Pornography
* Prescription drugs
* Pyramid selling or matrix schemes
* Tobacco
* Weapons

In the meantime, if you feel you have wasted any money with Donna Burch or homeworkpays.co.uk, please let me know and I’ll politely suggest to Nochex that they refund your money – after all, if banks and credit card companies weren’t quite so quick to facilitiate such schemes, they’d never get off the ground … but the banks get their commission, of course, whether, the purchase is genuine or a complete rip off and scam …

(UPDATE: At last Nochex are taking action – but I’m not impressed by the amount of time this has taken them).

Your comments are also very welcome, below.