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Agencies. what are the most common scams? >> the first and most common one is that classic work-from-home scam, flyers that say you can make $1,000 a day stuffing envelopes or a business startup tool. the fact is, these are scams. if it's too good to be true, stay away. >> they offer job leads or offer guaranteed placement. those are two of the other scams. if you see those -- >> right. >> -- do you know right away they're wrong? >> yeah. ones that are becoming more and more popular, besides just those work-from-home scams are job lead scams and pay to get lead scams. when it comes to the job ...

Have seen just in her checkbook the difference that she's made in the last year for her own family's economic security. but i guess the bigger question is, what might she mean for future elections and in particular the upcoming presidential election if she chooses not to republican ever again. >> it appears to me that she's going to be a king maker or a queen maker in 2010, in the midterms and also in the 2012, coming up in the presidential election. two of the women that she endorsed, carly fiorina in california and nicky hayward in north carolina came out looking real lestrong. i think she's...

Republicans vote. i think republicans are engaged like i've never seen them engaged before. they are looking at us twice and three times. i'm up and down the state talking to folks who i may have known before. but they are really asking the important questions. they want the right person to emerge from this primary. >> greta: is the tea party movement -- to what extent is that helping you? what is the role in your campaign? it is interesting here in this state. >> i think that it is helping me. in that it is emboldening people who have never felt they would make a difference in a race. they wo...

I think republicans are engaged like i've never seen them engaged before. they are looking at us twice and three times. i'm up and down the state talking to folks who i may have known before. but they are really asking the important questions. they want the right person to emerge from this primary. >> greta: is the tea party movement -- to what extent is that helping you? what is the role in your campaign? it is interesting here in this state. >> i think that it is helping me. in that it is emboldening people who have never felt they would make a difference in a race. they would never dawn on ...

Parting with their last dollars. it's a bad economy and the time is ripe for scammers. we've seen a proliferation of bogus employment ads from jobs with the federal government, movie extras or mystery shoppers to work at home opportunities stuffing envelopes or assembling ornaments. yesterday the federal trade commission announced charges against seven firms that targeted the unemployed. one of them called real wealth sold booklets on how to make a living on government grants and working from home mailing post cards and envelopes. they allegedly coned more than 100,000 people. another firm, en...