Work at home jobs
The
idea of working from home appeals to many people, and this is
especially true in areas where few jobs are available or where the
economy has taken a downturn. Unfortunately in the current job market
scammers have found a new pool of potential victims and many who have
never worked from home online are easy prey. We will discuss:
1). Various scams used online disguised as “
work from home” opportunities.
2). How to find a genuine real online job.
Online job scammers have already stolen millions from unsuspecting
job seekers, and that is not including the actual free work some job
seekers are simply never paid for.
Here are some common online scams:
Assembly Jobs – Here the scammer will claim by assembling a
product you can resell it, or that they will resell it, for a profit.
Actually what is happening is you are buying this unassembled product
and the scammer has no intention of reselling it or giving you your
money back.
Data Entry Jobs – These are usually spamming scams and you
will be asked to send out several emails for which you will never be
paid, or they will ask you to buy a kit to help you get started. There
are other kinds of data entry jobs as well but they pay pennies for huge
work even though they claim to make you millionaire in a short amount
of time.
Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) – This is a pyramid scheme, you
are asked to recruit more people, who in turn are asked to recruit more
people, etc. and no one anywhere makes any money. The actual product is
usually secondary – if there ever was a product to begin with.
Posting Ads – Similar to some data entry positions, here you
are asked to advertise something and promised payment when someone
signs up. These rarely actually ever pay anyone, and if they do it will
literally be pennies for up to several hundred hours of work before the
victim realizes it is a scam.
Processing Claims – Generally you will be asked to buy
equipment or software and you will need to pay for training. Meanwhile,
there is no real position for a claims processor and you will never be
paid.
Stuffing Envelopes – These scams will claim you can make $3
or $4 per stuffed envelope, but in reality all major companies have
postage machines that do all of this.
Online Job Finders – These job finders claim they will find
the legitimate work from home opportunities for a fee. They will not,
often they will either simply give you a generic list of outdated jobs
or jobs which are in fact scams, or they will try to get you involved in
their own online scam.
Medical Billing – You are offered software which costs $300 –
$900 to start your own medical billing business. Medical clinics do not
use freelance medical billing and often the software (if it even
exists) will not work or will be outdated.
Email Processing – You are offered $25 per email processed
or so. This of course is ridiculous, no legitimate company would pay
this much to send out emails. In reality you are being recruited to send
out spam, often with viruses attached, for which you will never be
paid.
The basic rule for spotting an online scam is that something that sounds too good to be true is too good to be true.
Scammers will put all kinds of time and effort into making their
business opportunity seem as realistic as possible with fake
testimonials, professional-looking logos, fake Google or Adsense checks,
etc. And the scammers you deal with can often be quite convincing. Here
are some ways to avoid a scam:
Don’t think you’re going to get your money back on a money back
guarantee. It is difficult to get your money back from a legitimate
company you’ve heard of, so of course you are not going to get money
back from a company you just heard of online. Testimonials are usually
made up. Don’t ever base your decision on a testimonial. Check if the
Better Business Bureau has any record of the company, and type in the
name of the company in a search engine next to “Scam” and often you will
find others who have fallen for this scam who have posted their
experience online. Never give a credit card number. No legitimate
employer will ever ask for a credit card under any circumstance.
So you may be asking yourself if there are any real job opportunities
out there. There certainly are jobs you can do from home, but like any
other job working from home requires a specific skill set and will pay
accordingly. Think of working from home as the same thing as working
from an office, if it is not something you would do in an office,
chances are it is not a real work from home opportunity.
The fact is people who do successful work from home generally do not
work for a specific company, they are called freelancers and they seek
out their own employment either through job sites or by contacting
legitimate companies on their own and offering their service. Another
successful venture on the internet is affiliate marketing which is more
of a business rather than online job.
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