A Little Information and Insight about Work At Home Scams
Why do work at home scams get posted and never removed?
Posters and answerers are in cahoots. I've been keeping track and it started with 'Ways 14 year old girl can make money?'
Many phrases in different postings of questions/answers are the same, along with the way the amount of money is typed (1100) the names are similar, usually having an initial and they all started why! Oh, and the categories are really way off.
I've reported a bunch and sometimes they're gone in an instant; other times they stay or only the answerer is gone.
Wait till you read my questions if they try to mess with me now!
Name some known work-at-home computer business scams?
Naming names isn't that easy to do. Online it's exceptionally easy to change company names every time you get caught out as a scam. I find it far better to learn to understand the symptoms of a scam and how to research whether a given company is a scam.
http://www.homewiththekids.com/scams/ has a fair listing (yes, it's mine) of many of the common online work at home scam types. I would also recommend checking out http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menu-fran.htm as a great resource.
You can also check with the BBB and with http://www.ripoffreport.com and see if anyone has reported things there. Neither is perfect; the BBB may not have anything at all, and remember that membership is paid when a business is with the BBB, and as for Rip Off Report, anyone can say just about anything, so take it into consideration but remember things may be exaggerated.
Some of the symptoms you want to look for are as follows:
1. Are you being paid only for recruiting? This is the classic sign of the pyramid scheme.
2. Is it called a "job" but you have to pay for more information or to "show that you are serious?"
3. Can you understand how you will be earning money? If the money is too good to be true or seems to be coming from thin air, there's probably a problem.
There are more symptoms, but I would recommend going over the resources mentioned above.
As seen on TV scams!
If it's on a TV commercial, it's questionable at best. The late night kinds are the worst -- ones that promise huge incomes of $20,000 a month working part-time. Avoid them.
Pyramid schemes usually don't work well either, internet or otherwise. Occasionally they may bring in some income, but it often involves a lot of hard work, typically of questionable ethics -- in other words, harassing a lot of people in different ways.
If it's a business that could work well without the net, that's a start -- say, selling a certain specialty product. Think of the net as expanding your customer base. But be forewarned, there's no "easy" way to make money, even online. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.