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Kona Medical Transcription - Katrina


Posted: Feb 13, 2014

Has anyone had any experience with this company? I came across them from an ad in findtranscriptionwork.com. At first they said they were involved with ZS Associates and now they are saying Kona Medical and offer to pay $25 an hour for some accounting software to be shipped to you. Sounds good, but just afraid to get involved. 

Kona is a scam - sm

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Didn't you do a search on Kona before you posted?  You'd see that they're a scam.  There are posts from as recently as last week.

The Kona Medical ad is a scam. - anon

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If you do a search, there are some earlier discussions. Here is one:


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