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Work At Home Scams
he Internet is full of ads newspaper ads, buying office
for work at home supplies, etc. This is in
opportunities promising you addition to whatever start-up fee
thousands of dollars a month for or initial investment is
staying at home while doing required. Many people lose
little or no work. If you are thousands of dollars plus their
struggling financially, as so time and energy because they fall
many people are, these ads sound prey to these schemes.
like the answer to your dreams.
There are many of these work at
If you are thinking about home scams floating around on the
investing your time or money in Internet. Some of them are listed
any of these ads, proceed with below:
caution. Not all work at home
opportunities deliver on their ASSEMBLY OR CRAFT WORK: Most of
promises. In fact, a large these programs tell you how easy
percentage of them are scams and it is to produce goods for a
should be avoided. company that promises to buy them
from you once you complete them,
Most advertisements for these thus earning you a nice weekly
opportunities deliberately omit income. They fail to tell you how
certain facts, including only the many hours are required in order
information that will draw your to produce those items or how
attention. There is no mention of much of your money is required as
how many hours you will need to an investment in equipment or
devote to the program or what the supplies, sometimes adding up to
total investment costs may be. hundreds of dollars.
Many work at home schemes require An example of this is a company
you to cover the costs of placing that pays you to make aprons. You
need to either have a sewing
machine or purchase one. You may In reality, the only people who
also be required to buy materials ever make any money from chain
to make your aprons. However, letters are the ones who are at
after you purchase the materials the top of the chain who, by the
and equipment and perform the way, are continually changing
work required, you are not paid. names and post office boxes. The
person who sends you the chain
How can they get away with this? letter tries to pull you in by
They tell you the work does not claiming to be a successful
meet their “quality standards.” lawyer who does this on the side
Unfortunately, no work ever done and who assures you that there is
by anyone is “up to standard” nothing illegal about chain
leaving you with a loss of income letters.
and investment. If you want to
sell the items you have made, you ENVELOPE STUFFING: Ads for
are forced to find your own envelope stuffing have been
customers. around for years in various
formats. The basic claim is that
CHAIN LETTERS: Ads for chain for a fee, you will be provided
letters tell you to make copies with directions to earn money
of a certain letter and send that from home simply by stuffing
letter to people whose names and envelopes.
addresses are provided. All you
are required to do is send ten After you make the initial
dollars for a mailing list and investment, you discover there
labels. You are then shown a was never any real employment
chart to see how you can offer. Instead, you are told how
automatically receive thousands to place ads in newspapers,
of dollars. magazines, online classifieds,
etc. The only way for you to earn at the top have made money.
money is if people respond to
your ads. MEDICAL BILLING: Ads for medical
billing are in newspapers,
MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING: Ads for magazines, and on the Internet.
MLM programs tell you how you can The sales pitch says there is a
earn more money than you have crisis in the health care
ever had in your life. By joining industry due to the massive task
their program it will be possible of processing paper claims. Since
for you to let others earn money only a small fraction of the
for you while you enjoy your claims are fulfilled
prosperous lifestyle! electronically, the opportunities
in this area are huge.
Multi-level marketing is a
business based on direct sales. Supposedly, doctors want to
It is a solid, well-established, contract out their billing
legal form of business that has services to save money. This
provided profit for many people means you should be able to earn
who have successfully sold a sizable income working from
products for reputable companies. home providing services like
billing and accounts receivable.
Many illegal pyramid schemes can No experience is required and you
resemble these legitimate MLM will be provided with clients.
programs. The difference is that Unfortunately, the reality is
instead of selling a product, that you have to do the selling
your primary goal is to recruit yourself.
others into the program. At some
point, everything collapses Very few people who invest in a
because the market becomes medical billing business are able
saturated and only a few people to find clients and generate an
income, let alone recover their If you invest in any work at home
investments. The competition in opportunity and find that it is
this market is brutal and not legitimate, contact the
primarily centers on a few large company and ask for a refund. If
companies. they will not honor your request,
find out the physical address and
Before making any investments in contact information of the
any companies, ask questions, company. You can then make a
specifically regarding investment complaint with the Better
amounts and the requirements for Business Bureau or your local
running the business. Insist upon Attorney General’s office. You
receiving contact information for can also find out if any other
references. Contact those complaints have been received for
references and speak to them, that company.
preferably in person.
About the Author:
Chris Chenoweth writes articles pertaining to health and nutrition, budgeting, and online business. Learn how to earn a respectable income every month from legitimate online companies: http://www.ezniche.com/data/article.php?l=352
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