Avoiding Working At Home Scams

Published: 29th November 2011
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Starting a home business is becoming popular daily due to its advantages over the regular 8hrs jobs. As the number of people diving into this area of endeavour to meet up with their living aspirations increase so is equally the number of scammers increasing as well as their creativity increasing .These scammers have only one mission-to rip people of their hard earned money. This article is written to help those who wish to be working at home avoid being cut in this negative web call scamming. As you know knowledge is power! By educating yourself on the common scams and keeping aware about new ones, you can stop the scammers in their tracks. Remember, if no one fell to their antics, they would be out of business!


Here are some of the most common scams today:

Stuffing Envelopes – There are no legitimate envelope-stuffing jobs out there. Please don’t be fool by the attractive sales copies of this various companies or individuals. There are no legitimate envelop stuffing offers out there PERIOD!!! This is a common sense which company out there will pay someone not known to them money to stuff envelop for them inclusive of sensitive information which can easily be leaked to their competitors. Companies can very easily purchase a beautiful machine for a few hundreds dollars that will not only stuff the envelopes, it will also fold, collate and apply postage to the envelopes. Why would a company pay you thousands of dollars a month to stuff their envelopes? They wouldn’t. If you send your money to these so called make money stuffing envelop companies you are on your own. Bet me your money is gone!!!Why should there charge money in he first place when you are being employ to work on their behalf? Please RUN from such offer no matter how enticing it appears.


Typing and Data Entry – This share similarity with the stuffing of envelop but have a slight different. Over 90% of the companies advertising these offers of typing and data entry are frauds. If you sign up for this and pay your fee, you will receive a copy of the same advertisement which will require you to places these ads to drive people in sending them the same money you sent. All in the name of registration fee. Though there are legitimate companies that will hire you to work on services like data entry,transcription,coding etc .Please do your research to avoid being a prey to them.


Craft Assembling – If you really want to succeed in working at home business, please run from this business. Most of these companies and offers are scams. They are only interested in your start up fee after which they will send you start up kits. When you receive your kit, you will assemble dozens of earrings, potholders, send them in for payment, and they will not pass inspection. No matter the quality or how much effort you put into fixing them they still won’t be accepted. The company doesn’t want the items you assembled, they want your money for the start-up kit.However,there are a few legitimate companies out there like Disciple’s Cross and New England Crafters are two we’ve found so far. We are researching others. If you know if any please let us know .


Medical Billing – The sales letter of these companies can look very tempting but quote me almost all are scam as you will labour in vain without having any thing to show for your efforts. This companies promise to train you to become medical biller from your home with a condition that you will buy the software from them alone. The truth is that there will not tell you that you will be the one to look for clients which I bet you can never get because of the sensitive nature of the medical profession couple with the fact that virtually every dentist/doctor have their and cannot patronize you. With the new Privacy laws, medical professionals need to be extremely careful with patient records, and most will not want to trust someone with no billing experience to handle the office billing at home.

If you must be in working at home business please always perform due diligence on any offer before you get involved. Even if you don’t loose your money but how will you feel after promoting and working for a company only to find out that you cannot make any money because it is scam—lost of precious time. The best way to carry out this check is going to google.com and type the offer name along with website + scam. You will get views of people who have benefited from that offer or that of those that have lost their hard earn money to them.

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