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Legitimate Home Based Business » Work At Home Scams
Home Business & Work At Home Scams
You can visit www.bbb.com if you suspect a scam. It's a good idea to check before you invest or give.
 Data Entry - According to the people on Scam.com and other scam research, not one of these data entry "jobs" is a real job. "Unfortunately, they are all one big scam. Once you join and pay the registration fee you will receive the training materials that will teach you only how to type more data entry ads and convince other people to join" - From the desk of David Grisman an Online Fraud Investigator.
Paid Surveys- Many paid survey companies charge fees for their services, and very often little or nothing is given in return. In recent years, the Better Business Bureau has been flooded with complaints about paid survey companies. American legislators are taking the problem of paid survey scams very seriously. The federal government and numerous states are currently in the process of enacting legislation to counter this kind of fraud. Visit testspin.com for a legitimate survey site.Member of BBB.
Type At Home- This website claims they will send you work at home to type like address lables for companies that mass mail. All you have to do is send them a membership fee first. Well you send the money and never get another response from them. They are set up with an auto response system that just keeps asking for money. -Anonymous
Better Internet Bureau - Public Forum » Report Scams & Frauds
Email Processing- For a low price $50 you can become a "highly-paid" email processor working "from the comfort of your own home." Think about it -- they offer to pay you $25 per email processed -- would any legitimate company pay that? - as said on scambusters.org
Other types of scams include Craft Assembly, Medical Billing, Chain Letters, Chain Emails, Envelope Stuffing, Multi-Level Marketing (MLM)
Work At Home Scams - Internet Fraud Tips.
Know who you’re dealing with.
The company may not be offering to employ you directly, only to sell you training and materials and to find customers for your work.
Don’t believe that you can make big profits easily. Operating a home-based business is just like any other business – it requires hard work, skill, good products or services, and time to make a profit.
Be cautious about emails offering work-at-home opportunities.
Many unsolicited emails are fraudulent.
Get all the details before you pay. A legitimate company will be happy to give you information about exactly what you will be doing and for whom.
Find out if there is really a market for your work.
Claims that there are customers for work such as medical billing and craft making may not be true. If the company says it has customers waiting, ask who they are and contact them to confirm. You can also ask likely customers in your area (such as doctors for medical billing services) if they actually employ people to do that work from home.
Get references for
other people who are doing the work.
Ask them if the company kept
its promises.
Be aware of legal
requirements.
To do some types of work, such as medical billing,
you may need a license or certificate. Check with your state attorney
general’s office. Ask your local zoning board if there are any
restrictions on operating a business from your home. Some types of
work cannot be done at home under federal law. Look for the nearest
U.S. Department of Labor in the government listings of your phone
book.
Know the refund policy.
If you have to buy equipment or supplies, ask whether and under what
circumstances you can return them for a refund.
Beware of the old
“envelope stuffing” scheme.
In this classic scam, instead of
getting materials to send out on behalf of a company, you get
instructions to place an ad like the one you saw, asking people to
send you money for information about working at home. This is an
illegal pyramid scheme because there is no real product or service
being offered. You won’t get rich, and you could be prosecuted for
fraud.
Be wary of offers to
send you an “advance” on your “pay.”
Some con artists use
this ploy to build trust and get money from your bank. They send you a
check for part of your first month’s “pay.” You deposit it, and
the bank tells you the check has cleared because the normal time has
passed to be notified that checks have bounced. Then the crook
contacts you to say that you were mistakenly paid the wrong amount or
that you need to return a portion of the payment for some other
reason. After you send the money back, the check that you deposited
finally bounces because it turned out to be an elaborate fake. Now the
crooks have your payment, and you’re left owing your bank the amount
that you withdrew.
Do your own research
about work-at-home opportunities.
The “Work-At-Home
Sourcebook” and other resources that may be available in your local
library provide good advice and lists of legitimate companies that
hire people to work for them at home. You may discover that these
companies hire only local people and that there is nothing available
in your area.
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