| Work at home scams
For years, people have been
robbed by work at home scams and lost a great deal of money trying
to earn a legitimate income. With promises of overnight riches on
the internet, it's no surprise that so many people have come online trying
to get their own share of the pie.
Here, you have to be careful and not mistake a work at
home job with a work at home opportunity. The two are totally
different and do not work the same way at all.
When talking about a work at home job, we're
talking about working for an employer who will pay you a salary to
work for them.
How do you recognize a work at home job
scam?
It's much easier than you think. According to the
dictionary, a job is defined as a "paid position for
employment".
First of all, you should never pay a company to work for
them, even if you can work from your home. An employer pays YOU to
work for them, you don't pay them to give you a job.
How about stuffing envelopes for example?
If you just THINK about this for a minute, you'll see how ridiculous it
really sounds.
A company offers to pay you an outrageous amount of
money to stuff envelopes. But first, you have to send them money so
they can teach you what to do and send you the material you'll need.
You see these ads all over the internet. Is the company advertising
the job? Have you ever seen these ads on a job site? Of course
not!
What you see are ads placed by people who were ripped
off with this scam. In order to recover their own money, these
people have to scam others into the same thing.
The same holds true for doing crafts at home.
You have to send money to get the materials shipped to your home.
Then you have to pay again to send your finished crafts back to the
company. No matter how hard you worked and how well made your crafts
are, the company will always tell you that your crafts do not
meet their standards, therefore, they don't have to pay you
anything. You just lost money.
If you've never seen the ad on a job site, the odds are that it's not a
real job. Period. Legitimate work from home jobs are few and
far in between and will not be found on classified ad
websites on the internet.
- A legitimate work at home JOB will not have any type of
matrix attached to it.
- A legitimate work at home JOB will not be found on the
general classified websites on the internet.
- A legitimate work at home JOB will be advertised by the
hiring company on a job site, or the employment agency recruiting for
the employer, not the people who supposedly work for
them and post the ad in general classifieds.
There is a difference between "work at home jobs"
and "work at home contract jobs". See the section
on "legitimate work at
home jobs". Although you should never pay to find a job,
there may be a fee to find work at home contract jobs. This is
perfectly legal and many people find legitimate contracts through these
sites. Do your homework before paying a large fee to any
company. Many are legal, but a few are also there just to take your
money and provide nothing in return. |
