Avoid Scams While Working at Home
According to analysts, bogus companies offering work at home scams have more than doubled recently. What does this tell you? That for every real job offer, there will be a hundred that are not what they seem. Generally, bogus sites and e-mails have some telltale signs. If you have any reason to doubt authenticity, take it up and triple check. You can never be too safe with experienced scammers.
You will notice that pop up ads and chirpy notices that scream ‘Work at home! Earn money fast!” are usually not to be trusted. Nobody is generous enough to offer more than what is reasonable for work at home opportunities. So don’t be fooled. This is not to say that the moderate, unobtrusive ads calling for suitable candidates are all real either. Check the contact details of the management and see how they respond to your queries. Do they send vague replies to you? Do you get irrelevant information from them? There is more than one way of validating correspondence.
Some of the most common work at home scams are given below:
1) Craft work
You are made to appear as a sort of go-between where you link the supplier of the raw material and the buyer. The usual scheme is that candidates pay upfront for the necessary ‘tools’ and ‘materials’. You will be assembling items and posting them to an agreed address. Sadly, your items will get returned (turns out that the address doesn’t exist) or the craft you assembled is not up to their standards- and it never will be, and you will not be paid. As you will have no way of contacting the scammers, the initial payment is gone for good. Read the rest of this entry »
