Almost everyone wants a business that lets them work from home.
With the lack of commute and the opportunity to determine your own success, there's plenty to like about legitimate work from home.
However, there are plenty of work at home scams that you should look out for.
Not only because you may not be able to get back your job that you quit in order to work from home, but also because a lot of these scams include some pretty dodgy business practices.
Stuffing envelopes A favorite amongst broke college kids and potential work from home Moms.
They're told that they can earn one dollar for each and every envelope they stuff.
Sure enough, they pay the nominal start up charge for the initial 1,000 envelopes and dream of building a financial empire.
Except that after receiving the envelopes they learn that in order to get their dollar they have to stuff the envelope with a paper they photocopied themselves that tells the recipient that if they want great advice on car or life or home insurance, all they need do is send one dollar.
Craft assembly Another highly popular work from home scam.
In this one, the scamming company promises that as long as you'll be paid for each craft kits that you assemble.
After paying an up front fee for the initial kit and assembling it, you learn that your work doesn't meet their specifications.
Even if you assembled the thing perfectly they won't pay you for it because they are in the business of selling craft kits, not paying people to assemble them.
Typing at home In this ingenious scam, the scammers target those that work on the Internet (or at least have consistent access to it).
They state that if they want to make money from home as a computer typist all they need do is send a small fee and they'll receive a disk (or CD if you're not stuck in the mid 90s) and set of instructions.
Except that the disk and set of instructions tells you to place ads promising lucrative work at home as a computer typist.
Email processor The job title alone should clue us in that this is a scam as what the hell is an "email processor"? However, those who want to work from home on their computer are intrigued and the scam is perpetuated.
Basically, it's the same as the envelope stuffing, but with a creative contemporary spin.
With the lack of commute and the opportunity to determine your own success, there's plenty to like about legitimate work from home.
However, there are plenty of work at home scams that you should look out for.
Not only because you may not be able to get back your job that you quit in order to work from home, but also because a lot of these scams include some pretty dodgy business practices.
Stuffing envelopes A favorite amongst broke college kids and potential work from home Moms.
They're told that they can earn one dollar for each and every envelope they stuff.
Sure enough, they pay the nominal start up charge for the initial 1,000 envelopes and dream of building a financial empire.
Except that after receiving the envelopes they learn that in order to get their dollar they have to stuff the envelope with a paper they photocopied themselves that tells the recipient that if they want great advice on car or life or home insurance, all they need do is send one dollar.
Craft assembly Another highly popular work from home scam.
In this one, the scamming company promises that as long as you'll be paid for each craft kits that you assemble.
After paying an up front fee for the initial kit and assembling it, you learn that your work doesn't meet their specifications.
Even if you assembled the thing perfectly they won't pay you for it because they are in the business of selling craft kits, not paying people to assemble them.
Typing at home In this ingenious scam, the scammers target those that work on the Internet (or at least have consistent access to it).
They state that if they want to make money from home as a computer typist all they need do is send a small fee and they'll receive a disk (or CD if you're not stuck in the mid 90s) and set of instructions.
Except that the disk and set of instructions tells you to place ads promising lucrative work at home as a computer typist.
Email processor The job title alone should clue us in that this is a scam as what the hell is an "email processor"? However, those who want to work from home on their computer are intrigued and the scam is perpetuated.
Basically, it's the same as the envelope stuffing, but with a creative contemporary spin.
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