Some people are out to fool you. When you are searching through the various writing job websites, be on the lookout for ads which sound a little iffy. Some less-than scrupulous people will secure a big load of writing jobs from another company and then try to farm some of the work out to new freelance writers and then pass the work off as their own. For example, suppose that Mr. X secures a job to write a hundred short articles on the subject of learning how to build a website. Mr. X knows full well that there is no way he can do all these articles on his own by the time the due date rolls around, but instead of using some paid help from other trusted writers, he puts an ad on a freelance writing job website and asks for new writers for his writing “company” ... cont'd ...