Thursday, 1 March 2012

Caveat Emptor - Work At Home Scams At A Glance

By John Dorian


The ability to earn a living from home is one that millions of people would enjoy. Down with uptight bosses and co-workers straight from the staff of OMG, down with corporate slavery in general. Every year, a good number of people give working from home the old college try, mostly to tell their old bosses to "take their job and shove it", but not everybody succeeds in this endeavor.

Once success opens its window to the general public, such general public also includes unscrupulous individuals out to commit fraud. Offers to work from home are common subjects of spam e-mail, and there are thousands of Websites devoted to lavish descriptions of the riches one can acquire while working from home. It goes without saying that if you decide to take advantage of one of these dubitable offers, your sole reward would be a hole in your pocket. Offers to get rich at home while stuffing envelopes or processing medical claims for physicians earn far more for the people selling them than they do for the victims who buy them.

These are but two of the common work at home scams that can be commonly found in e-mail solicitations or in the classified advertising sections of business-related magazines. Anybody who has serious plans of working from home must keep the following pointers in mind:

You can't get something for nothing. If you see an ad promising you a thousand bucks a week to do something even your youngest child or grandchild can do, then be wary for it is most likely a scam.

Do not respond to solicitations that come via e-mail. Oftentimes, the people behind these scams send these emails out to millions, holding out on the hope that a few people will bite into the trap. Don't do it.

Discern what you have to do in order to get paid. Then do some research on your own. Is there a sizeable market for your potential work-at-home job? Research helps.

Gather data about the company. Thanks to the Internet, it's as easy as looking them up in a search engine. What do other people say about the company?

Is investing money the hidden catch? How much? Any compensation? Can you get your money back if you back out? Check it out.

If you look closely, there are indeed legit ways to work from home and earn money, but about ninety percent of them are not for real. All it takes is a little bit of that good "R" word to avoid that other "R" word-and-a-half - research to avoid getting ripped off.




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