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How to identify and avoid work at home scams

By: Bizymoms.com Management

You may be a mom wishing to stay at home to look after your children better. But can you afford to do so? With the surging oil prices coupled with rising inflation levels it may not be possible. But wait a minute! What if you can work at home attending to your children at the same time. Sounds good, isn't it?

Hold on your search for work at home jobs for a second. Before you drown yourself in the sea of work at home opportunities you must know this. That is 99.9% of the work at home jobs are SCAMS! No I'm not exaggerating, this is the bitter truth. So you need to be ultra careful in your search for a legitimate work at home opportunity.

Let me offer you three effective tips to quickly identify a work at home scam.

First check whether they ask for money upfront in return for job opportunity. If yes, do not get caught, it's a SCAM. Just think about it, if it's a legitimate employer it should pay you for your work not vice versa.

Next tip is to see whether it's a Get Rich Quick Scheme. There's no way in this world to get rich quickly. If you ask anybody who's rich, he or she may tell you how difficult it was for him/her to get there. No accomplishment in your life will come easily unless you work hard towards it. So the next time somebody comes up and tells you about getting rich fast, be ready to ignore it.

If you are still not sure about it, you may seek more information about the opportunity from the likes of Better Business Bureau (BBB), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Fraud.org. One of the main objectives of these organizations is to combat against frauds such as bogus work at home opportunities. As a result these associations publicize information about such frauds mainly through their websites.

Let us now look at some of the classic examples of work at home scams.

Assembly work at home such as jewelry assembly or woodworking are often found to be scams. These racketeers offer you to buy their resource kit which includes raw material required for the assembly work. However upon purchasing you may realize it is impossible to come up with the suggested product with the given material. Even if you produce the stuff by a miracle, they will disagree to pay by simply stating your work is substandard.

Envelope stuffing is another classic example of a get rich quick scam. Get into the shoes of an employer and imagine why would you make someone rich by paying $2 to stuff an envelope when you could get the job done by a mailing house at a fraction of the cost.

Similarly there are hundreds of opportunities like this out there. But as you already know how to identify and avoid them, there is nothing to worry now. Now you may re-start your search for a legitimate work at home job.

The new job bank at http://jobs.bizymoms.com is free for job seekers. Visitors have the option of registering and submitting their resume, which will be seen by hundreds of work at home employers.

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