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If Someone Offers to Get Your AI-Scam Money Back, Ask This First

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Someone offering to recover money you lost to an AI income program? Check the FTC’s refunds page first. None of those cases are on it, so there is no fund.

The AI ‘Passive Income’ Math Nobody Shows You

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AI passive-income courses show you one number. The FTC’s own case files show the second one — what buyers actually earned, and what the program cost them first.

Nobody at Social Security Is Counting Your Hours. That Is Not the Same as Being Safe.

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I wrote recently about the 45-hour rule and what the side-hustle guides leave out: How Self-Employment Can Cost You Social Security Before Full Retirement Age. That piece worked from Social Security’s public pages. This one works from the regulations underneath them. Three things turned up that are true in the primary sources and wrong or […]

Hobby or Business? The Rule That Decides Whether You Can Deduct Anything

Quick Answer The IRS draws a hard line between a hobby and a business, and in 2026, that line costs real money. If your side activity is a business, you can deduct your expenses against your income. If it’s a hobby, you report every dollar you earn and deduct nothing. There is no middle ground. […]

The 1099-K Threshold for 2026 Is $20,000, Not $600 (Here’s Why Your AI Assistant Says Otherwise)

Quick Answer: For the 2026 tax year, a payment platform or online marketplace is only required to send you a Form 1099-K, a tax form reporting the gross payments you received through that platform, if BOTH of these are true: your gross payments exceed $20,000 AND your transactions exceed 200. Both conditions must be met. […]

Rank and Rent Is Sold as Passive Income. Nobody Mentions the Phone Calls.

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Here is the verdict up front. Rank and rent is a real business model, not a scam, and some people do make money at it. But it is not passive, and the website is not the hard part. The hard part is calling local contractors you have never met and persuading them to pay you […]

How Self-Employment Can Cost You Social Security Before Full Retirement Age

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Social Security has a worked example sitting on its own website. It is worth reading before you start anything. A man the agency calls John Smith retires from his job at 62 on June 30, 2026. He has earned $37,000 that year. On October 5 he starts his own business. He works at least 15 […]

Is Income Team X Legit? What I Could and Couldn’t Verify

Two Income Team X sales pages side by side showing different income claims: 417.22 dollars per day and 1797 dollars per day

I ran Income Team X through the same six-point method I used on Project Apollo AI. Here is what I could verify, what I could not, and why the seller’s own pages disagree about the money.

Is Project Apollo AI Legit? What I Could and Couldn’t Verify

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Short answer: I ran my six-point check on Project Apollo AI and could not verify who owns it, how it actually pays, or a single one of its income claims. What I could verify is a structural problem that makes the rest almost beside the point: buyers report a refund window of 60 days and […]

How to Check If an AI Income Program Is Real: A 6-Point Method

If you’re looking at an AI income program and trying to decide whether to pay for it, here’s the short answer: you can settle most of it yourself in about fifteen minutes, for free, before you spend a dollar. Three questions do most of the work. Can you explain in one sentence how the program […]

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