Two ads found on Craigslist:
Professional Writers for Book Proposals (Harvard Square)
Prominent Anthropologist and Family Therapist seeks professional writers and journalists in the Boston area for Book Proposals.
Confidential Titles are:
1. Woman Unite! Does America need a Lysistrata like Ancient Greece to stop our Economic and Military Insane Wars?
2. God’s Last Call! Stop Patriarchal Original Sin Insanity; Return to Matriarchal Original Innocence so Earth does not become Planet Necropolis!
3. The Lost Art of Sacred Love- Making! Common in Primative Cultures of Polynesia , Hawaii and Eastern Goddess- based Religions!
4. More Oxytocin Please! Catch and Embrace the Spirit of Honeyfire and Enjoy the Blissful Miracles of an Oxytocin High!
Applicants must share a deep " Reverence for all Life ", and deep passion for the Well-Being of our childrens future!
This represents a great opportunity for the right candidates! Please send a letter of interest and a resume!
If they’re confidential then why are they on Craigslist? The right candidate being anyone dumb enough to respond.
and No. 2:
Writers Needed for News & Current Events
We are seeking talented and qualified writers to join our news team. Writers that are approved for the program will be assigned topics for their articles. This position gives you the opportunity to work from your home or anywhere else you have an Internet connection. Writers will be paid $3.50 per article and we anticipate most writers will earn roughly $10-12 per hour.
Writers that enter the program will go through a brief training process to outline our process and requirements for approving articles. All articles will be at least 250 words long and must be void of any errors.
This is a part-time position with many time slots available and the opportunity to progress into a full-time position with the company.
If the $3.50 per wasn’t bad enough, this is what pushes it over the edge: “We anticipate most writers will earn roughly …” And I anticipate The Cubs will win the World Series.
Collateral Damage 
So to get $10-12 per hour, at $3.50 an article, they expect you to write 3-4 articles per hour so 15-20mins per article, Time for lots of quality research then….
Heh — saw that second one on the Austin Craigslist this morning. Wow! A minimum of $10/hour! And it looks like they will accept nothing but quality writing!
Any idea what company is so generous? My search for the ad found your blog, but nothing else.
No idea. I didn’t look any farther because I wanted to keep my lunch down. For that kind of money I would much rather work at Starbucks. At least you get to talk to people.
I think they just want randomly generated words.
That’s kinda what I was thinking. I made about that much washing dishes — but that was honest labor. At 750 – 1,000 words / hour, the most you’d be able to do is re-word a press release.