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Avoiding Working From Home Scams

Posted on March 25, 2008 - Filed Under Home Based Business

How can you avoid Working From Home Scams. Many people feel scared about working via the Internet. They hear so many stories about scams that they assume that all work offered via the net is rubbish. With a little bit of common sense, the rubbish can easily be sorted from real earning opportunities. Hopefully in this article I will be able to show you how to quickly check to see if it is real or fake. I have been working via the Internet for over 10 years so have some experience in this.

The common Home Work Scams

Much to my horror while surfing the net I discovered that scams that I thought had been abolished were well and truly alive and kicking people in the teeth.

I will list few here and if you come across them, just ignore and surf to another page.

Stuffing Envelopes

This is probably one of the oldest at home scams. It has been in local papers for years and now has appeared on the net. The type of advert you see is ‘Payment of $1 or $2 per envelope you stuff.

The first danger sign is that you have to send them money for the work supplied. The work sent consists of other work at home scam flyers. The idea is that you get people to do what you do while sending the money to the company owner.

The Original Scam

Now I call it this because it is simple. You see an advert or webpage saying you can make X amount per week. Send $25 for full instructions.

All you get back is a slip of paper saying ‘Do as I do’. Very clever and very naughty.

Chain Letter Scam

You all know about this – send money to everyone on the list, add your name to the bottom and off it goes. This runs out of money so quickly and you certainly don’t get any. The only one who succeeds is the one at the top of the list.

Be careful about this one – Home Typing Scams

I personally have been earning my living on the Internet by typing or website designing via my own business. There are Home Typing scams but today they are few and far between. Further on in this article I will give some pointers as to how you can work out if it is real or a fake.

Medical Billing Scam

This goes along with the above – if you have to pay for billing software, beat a quick retreat.

Craft Assembly

Most of us know that it is cheaper to go into a store and buy a knitted scarf than it is to buy the kit to knit it. Well this works the same way. You buy all the equipment you need and then try to sell the items – you are bidding against items from places such as China and you will end up with a lot of craft items yourself.

Worse even is the company that asks you to send the items back to the supplier for a quality check. As you can imagine, you fail the test and the goods are returned and you are not paid.

How to sniff out a scam

The Internet has rules and regulations as many organisations do. There are some things to look out for if you are going to try to get work on the net:

1 Does the company have a website?

2 Is it a good website and not something put together by an 11 year old?

3 Does it have lots of pages and good explanations?

4 Does it have testimonials with pictures and area address details?

5 Does it offer video or other training?

6 MOST IMPORTANTLY – Does it have a money back guarantee and does that guarantee have a nice big black and gold logo that gives the timescale for the guarantee or a written guarantee of some other type. Some simply offer a lifetime guarantee which is great.

Look for other organisations that may have logos on the site that are ‘trust logos’ of various types and check them out – this is down to you.

Having been on the web for some time you will find that the good businesses are the ones affiliated with companies such as Clickbank or other similar payment collectors. You never pay them direct. It always goes through a third party. They may well pay you by cheque or PayPal. Some businesses have their own schemes - check them out as well.

Do your research, we have done ours and found many sites that are not scams.

Also remember – even if it is not a scam, you have to work hard to earn your money, the adverts that say $25,000 in 3 months – I take with a very large pinch of salt and would not touch them with a bargepole.

You can earn a living on-line, many of us do - just avoid Working From Home Scams.

Di Chapman is an IT specialist, having won 2 Awards for her work in the promotion of Virtual Working and the support and coaching of Virtual Assistants. She is proud to be the owner of “Become A Virtual Assistant” and VA-Marketing. Both Free web sites.
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