5 Making Money From Home Scams to AVOID

While seeking to realize your dreams of working from home, there is no shortage of vultures eager to swindle you out of your money. This article will save you the disappointment of learning the hard way to avoid these scams. I will share a list of known scams, some will be terribly obvious to many of you, but I don't want any more people losing their money to these scams, and hope to help newcomers to the work from home idea, by preventing a few scams early on. I will also explain how they work(or more precisely why they do not)!

The most important thing to do in avoiding any scam, is doing research. Google is a invaluable tool for this. Search the name of the company. Usually that is enough to learn how long they have been in business, if they have complaints about them being a scam, and what products and services they offer and whether they work.

Stuffing Envelopes

Assembly at Home

Data Entry

Surveys

Pyramid Schemes

Stuffing Envelopes:

You have probably seen the ads on line and in newspapers "Get Paid to Stuff Envelopes $2 per envelope" So you think hmmm takes me 15 seconds to stuff an envelope, stuff 4 per minute, 240 per hour, which means I could make $480 per hour working from home, what a great opportunity! Well, not exactly. What they fail to tell you in the ad is that you have to get people to send you a SASE(S.elf A.ddressed S.tamped E.nvelope). So the reality is you need to advertise some other system. Get people to send you a SASE requesting more information on the system. Then you stuff that envelope and send it back to them and you earn the $2. Another problem is many of them will not pay you until you have reached a certain amount, $100, $500, $1000 or some other amount that will take a lot of time for most people to reach, if they ever do. And some companies never pay you period.

Assembly at Home:

Another common newspaper ad "make $500 a week from home assembling simple products". Now most of these will give you a list of products needing assembled and you can pick which ones to do. Problem is that you get paid say $2 for each piece assembled and sent back to the company, and it only took you 3 hours to assemble each one. So you now are earning a whopping 67 cents per hour with your new home career. Worse yet, a few companies will send you the product to assemble accompanied by a bill for the product which you then have to assemble and sell on your own.

Data Entry:

These come in several varieties, and some are truly legit and you can make a fine living doing this. BUT, many of these are actually asking you to enter data for far less than advertised. Some you have to actually bid on projects and pay to get the job. Then you learn that in order to make $7 an hour you need to be able to type 175 words per minute non-stop (most of us cant type quite that fast). A few will have you entering data for lawyers or hospitals, and some are legit, but far more are asking you to fill out forms on line. This is very time consuming and you get paid a figure like $3 per form filled out. Again doing the math knowing you have spent 1 hour to fill out 1 form you only made $3 per hour.

Surveys:

This one is sensitive to a lot of people. But in my experience this is not very lucrative. Most companies paying you to take surveys will either give you points that you redeem for prizes, or a very small cash sum. For example, you take 15 minutes to fill out a survey to get paid 10 cents, or you get 500 points(only problem is the cheapest prize is a mini flashlight for 9,500,000,000 points and then you pay shipping and handling of $15). There are others offering 2-20 dollars per survey. Unfortunately they always seem to be looking for a very specific targeted group of people(This survey is for Asian women 19-20 who live in Antarctica and love wearing bikinis), SORRY YOU DO NOT QUALIFY.

Pyramid Schemes:

This subject is a little touchy, even to me. I am a network marketer and involved in several MLMs. I want to teach you to recognize a Pyramid Scheme. We have all seen the Chain letters where they tell you send $5 to each name on the list and add your name to the bottom and mail it to everyone you have ever walked by in your life. This happens to be Illegal in the United States. A pyramid scheme will not offer any product or service for your money, thus making it illegal. There are many Multi Level Marketing systems you can find on line (often they look very similar to pyramid schemes because of their payment structure). The BIG thing to watch is what product they offer and why would you buy it! The other major thing is to research the company and its founders, so that you have a good idea as to what they are all about.

As you can see these businesses are not quite what they seem in the ads we read. I hope that understanding how some of them work will save you some time and money. I would also like to add that there are exceptions to every rule. Someone somewhere has a great business doing these very things, but they are the exception not the rule. Now lets go find some great opportunities to work from home together. Remember the fastest way to get what you want is to help others achieve it with you!

Rvd. Matthew A Davis MsD

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