Common Work At Home Scams
When you're a mom who wants to work at home, you start looking
for any information you can find about the topic. Unfortunately
though, many people who want to work at home end up falling for
scams or shady offers, and spend their savings while never
actually getting started with any true work at home
opportunities, jobs or businesses.
The truth is, there are thousands of ways to work at home. You
can work at home in your free time and make just a bit of extra
money each month, or you can work at home full time and cover all
your families financial needs. There are however, many work at
home scams to be found both online and off. There are also many
shady work at home offers that aren't technically scams, but they
come very close. Let's look at several examples.
1. Stuffing Envelopes - This is possibly the number one work at
home scam people fall for. You see an ad in the newspaper or on
the Internet which says you can be paid a dollar for every
envelope you stuff. This sounds easy enough, right? You can
probably stuff hundreds of envelopes every day if you really
wanted to! So you send your money and find out later it's just a
scam.
The whole point of this work at home "opportunity" is to do the
same thing the other person did. You will place newspaper or
online advertisements telling people they can make money stuffing
envelopes, then when they send money to you, you send them
instructions on how to place their own advertisements for the
same thing.
2. Jewelry and Craft Making - This is another popular work at
home scam. The ads tell you you'll work at home making pretty
earrings, necklaces or various craft items. They tell you they'll
send you all the supplies and instructions, and when you send the
completed items to them they'll pay you for them.
The scam comes in two steps. The first step is that you have to
pay for your starter supply kit. The second step is the most
disappointing though, people from all over the country report the
same experiences: You send your completed crafts or jewelry, only
to have the company tell you the quality isn't high enough, or
you didn't assemble the product right. Some companies tell you to
keep trying, and encourage you to buy more supply kits as you run
out.
3. Medical Transcriptionist - This is not technically a work at
home scam, but it's shady enough sometimes to be worth a mention.
Most work at home medical transcription opportunities involve
having you pay a lot of money for a "course" to teach you how to
do the job. Sometimes these are fine and there are no problems.
Many however, don't teach you most of what you need to know. Most
medical transcriptionists need to know how to use a special foot
peddle control for their work for instance, and many so called
courses never mention this part of the job, let alone teach it.
They also neglect to teach you that you'll have to go out and
find business contracts in order to make any money with this at
home. You don't actually get a job when you're finished with your
schooling, you are instead expected to become a freelancer or
small business operator. And most doctors offices will not work
with unknown transcriptionists, because their paperwork is much
too important to risk having problems with.
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