subject: Work At Home Job Fraud [print this page] If you have an email account, you have received your share of unsolicited email, A. K. A. spam. Most of them promise quick cash if you just do xyz. If these types of emails failed to bring in money for the scammer, the scammer would not waste his or her time with them. We will review common work at home job scams and take a look at a few tips to help you avoid being taken in.
If you are a crafty kind of person who likes to work with your hands, and need a job or want to work from home, you just happen to be the target audience for a scammer's craft assembly marketing campaign. In this scheme, you are supposed to buy a kit from the company and then the company will purchase the product from you once it is put together. Here is the kicker. You spend hours putting the kit together and then the company tells you that your work is sub-par. Infuriating! The thing is, the company only wanted you to buy the junky craft kit in the first place. They never really intended to pay you for the work.
Amazingly, the envelope stuffing scam is still around after 60 years! In this scam a company offers to pay you for stuffing pre-addressed, pre-stamped envelopes. They claim you will get huge amount of money stuffing these envelopes. Stop and think for a minute about this. Why would a company pay someone to fill an envelope when there are machines that will do it faster and more neatly than any human could?
The email processing scam is the gorgeous single younger sister of the envelope stuffing scheme. In the email processing scheme, you are promised payment just for processing some email. This sounds easy enough. But when you stop to analyze the likelihood of this happening, you realize that every company you have ever known has its employees hand (process) their own email. It is never outsourced.
Are you just a helpless victim floating in a sea of work at home scammers? You do not have to be. There are very real things you can do to protect yourself from these dishonest people.
Firstly, get rid of the notion that somewhere in the world is a get-rich-quick scheme waiting for you to find it. There is no such thing. The only thing waiting for you to find is the scammer's bogus ad at the back of the magazine.
Dump all spam email right into your trash can. Do not even spend time seeing what it is. The fact is, it is just another fraud.
Find out everything you can about the company before you agree to do anything for them, particularly before you send them money. A real company will be more than willing to answer all of your questions so you can make a well-informed decision.
Make sure to find out if a market actually exists for the items you are supposed to be making or the work that you will be doing. If there is not, chances are your being baited into a scam.
You can protect yourself from work at home job scams by applying these tips. Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it is. Do not let the scammer catch you in their web of deceit.
