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By Marsha
James
Intro: Part 2 of a 2 Part
tutorial on scams to avoid with Work at Home Jobs. I just want to
point out that not all work at home jobs are scams. I, myself
actually do surveys for cash and although I don't make loads of
money, it is accumulating into a nice little sum, but if you have
a bit of time on your hands it doesn't cost you anything to do
these. I don't recommend that you pay to do surveys, all you need
to do, is to search on the engines and there are quite a few to
choose from and you sign up for free. I have a list on the right
of Work at Home forums where people share their experiences,
please visit them to check out any job you might be interested in
joining.
6. Make Lots of Money Taking
Surveys
You probably get one of these in
your email a week. Sign up for free or for a few of them a fee,
and you will soon earn a steady income just filling out surveys.
It is true that people used to make money doing this. Not enough
to quit there jobs and pay there bills but $30-$100 or more a
month. With the influx of people surfing the internet trying to
get a buck anywhere they can, this is no longer the case. If it
were that easy to make money everyone would quit there jobs and do
it and companies wouldn’t be making much money. The sites are
still there, but now most of them put you in a raffle to earn
"cool stuff" not money. Other’s will put you in a
raffle to some money. But what are the chances of you winning. And
what are the chances of you winning more than once a year? That is
not steady income. The ones that do say they will pay you, up up
$30 or more for a survey, leave something out. You will sit and
wait for that email telling you that you have a survey, but you
more than likely will never get one. Or even better you get one,
and after filling out 3 or 4 questions such as age, sex, location,
and yearly salary, you will quickly find out your not what there
looking for. Other’s will slam your email with surveys that pay
10 cents if your lucky. At the end if you can get even $20 a month
on surveys then your still stuck, because many will only mail out
checks of $25-$100 dollars, so it would be months before you get
the money, IF you get it at all.
7. Customer Service
There are companies out there who
you will apply free to work for them as a customer service rep,
from your home. It seems legitimate because you didn’t have to
pay a fee, the website looks professional, which it usually is and
you’ll be earning an income and you don’t have to sell
anything. The fine print is, you have just applied to be a
telemarketer. I myself just last year read over the entire site
and in the end all the information and FAQ informed me that I
would be making no cold calls, or outgoing calls. I would be
taking incoming calls from people who are customers. That much was
true. However the last phone call between me and my
representative/manager I am informed that I will need to pay
$29.99 a month for the phone fees and but I’ll make it back with
my commissions. Fee and commissions all in the same sentence about
a job that wasn’t telemarketing. Yes I would be receiving calls
from customers, and I would be getting a salary but what you
don’t find out til you apply and are accepted is that you will
be making maybe $2.00/hr if your lucky and you will be trying to
get a bigger income by pushing extra products on there customers
who are calling for help. You also don’t know that when the
customer calls and goes down the line of being transferred to you,
they are already inundated with so many product ads from other
phones workers and automated wait commercials that they will be
cursing a blue streak at you, and good luck making an income.
There are actually a handful of companies online who are hiring
customer service reps. But just like the true typist jobs, many
want someone with experience. They don’t want someone who
can’t take care of their customer. And there are others who will
train you if you have no experience but are someone they are
looking for. There are a few, but it’s hard finding them amid
all the telephone job scams out there.
8. The Instant Online Business
You pay a sometimes huge fee and
you can be making money in minutes. Or so they claim. Many of
these sites are just selling you an ebook "telling" you
how to start your own no fail work at home business. The website
is filled with pictures of people on the beach, and yacht’s
having fun. There are the testimonials from people who they say
already bought the book and made so much money in a short time.
All you need to do is press the x on your browser and get off that
site. The only person who is going to make money is the one
selling that expensive ebook. There are books out there with real
information that will help you. But people have to remember that
the internet is big and most of these sites are selling what you
can find for free other places. Plus starting an internet business
is not easy and it’s not quick. For some it took years before
they really started earning an income that allowed them to live
comfortably. For others they had to quit after losing hundred’s
of thousands of dollars. Online business creation companies will
make you a website and tell you your good to go. You only have one
problem, it’s not hard to create a website, there are billions
of them. The biggest problem of any internet business is getting
traffic and sales. Neither happen overnight even with the best
website and product.
9. Medical Transcriptionist/Medical
Billing
There are ads all over from the
hundred’s that come up in search engines to the dozens that are
emailed to you on any given month.
Even as I was doing research for
this article I came across a message board where many people were
responding to an ad that went like this:
"Work from home, no
experience necessary. Make over $3000 a month." Medical
transcription is actually a legitimate business but it takes a lot
of hard work to get it going. The ads will tell you how easy it
is. You pay them and mostly get a floppy disk or papers and
that’s it. All you find out is that you need to call doctor’s
offices to see if any of them will hire you. The fees are usually
outrageous as well anywhere from $300 to well over $1000 for there
"software" and just like the data entry, it’s the only
thing you can use. There are real places hiring transcriptionists
online, however the no experience rule you see some advertise is a
good indicator that they are a scam. You need experience, you need
to know all of the coding and medical language. Would you want
someone typing up your file who doesn’t understand what there
typing, and make key mistakes that could endanger your life? It
should also be noted that the scammers have also extended the scam
by creating "schools", for you to pay them and get a
degree by doing a home course which is actually not a real
certificate. To become a real certified Medical Transcriptionist
you need to go to American Association for Medical Transcription
and read all about the Medical Transcription Certification Program
(MTCP). Work At Home! Make Crafts For cash! Are you looking to work
from home doing assembly, crafts, sewing or making jewelry, and
getting paid for it? Start earning money from home today!" I
was so very disturbed to see over 50 people giving out there
emails while begging for more information on this. Stay away from
it unless you have done the work of really checking a company out
and even then I would pass, because there are simply only a
handful that are legitimate and I have NEVER even stumbled across
them as of yet.
10. Craft Assembly
Craft Assembly, I saved the worst
for last because the ones who run these ads online and offline,
are right at the bottom of the scum bucket. There are 3 types of
scammers for this one.
Crappy Materials – With all 3
types of companies it is usually the same.
Type 1 sends out an ad. You
respond to the ad and they want money from you, but don’t worry
it’s "refundable". The amount of money is many times
over a $1000, and they will tell you it’s to weed out the people
who aren’t serious as well as to cover the cost of the
materials. You will need to get expensive equipment such as a
sewing machine or a machine to make signs. You of course have to
get everything from their company because they need to make sure
that you are using only the finest materials and equipment. You
get the package and the materials are crap to say the least, the
instructions are hardly understandable and you are left struggling
to up together the dolls, aprons, crafts and other items. Your
only problem is many of these so called "companies" are
a P.O. Box which the owners have closed up and moved on. You are
left with products that you will probably toss or have to sell
yourself. End result all they were selling were the machines,
that’s where these people make there money from, not the
"crafts" they want you to build.
Type 2 is the same except you
send them in the products and they tell you that the product is
not up to there standards. They are right, after all with the
shoddy materials they sent who can make a quality item?
Congratulations, they have your money and that’s about it. End
result, they too have your money from the products you
"had" to buy only from them.
Type 3 well, they are simply the
worst of this little trinity. Everything goes the same as type 1
except that they might actually send good materials. You send back
the finished product and you get a response saying that the
product isn’t up to there standards. Unlike Type 2, the product
is usually good and they sell it, while they make you think they
tossed it in the garbage because it was just so awful. They have
the money from the machines and your crafts and you get the
unpleasant experience of being scammed.
There they are for now.
Unfortunately there are so many scams out there that was only the
tip of the iceberg. The best advice I can give is to use common
sense. If someone is telling you that you will make $10,000 a
month, shut the door in there face, close the webpage, or hang up
on them. Also be very wary of an ad that promises a lot but gives
you virtually no information on what you are supposed to be doing.
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have listed some work at home forums so you can see what other
people have to say. ALWAYS
check out the company or website to see if they are legitimate.
See who is good and who is bad, company
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