Can Your Really Trust The Work-From-Home Offers?

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Can you really earn a nice income working from home?

Have you ever thought of being your own boss and starting one of the many available work at home careers?

Can you really trust the ads about the work-from-home opportunities or offers?

The answers to the above questions are yes or no.

For the ”yes”, let me tell you I'm working from home right now, earning excellent incomes. I have been rather skeptical or even taken them as total scams until I by accident got into a home-based business and later became quite successful on it. You know what? I quit my $150,000/year job and am entirely working at home making more income than my previous employment.

A larger and larger percentage of people are taking their entrepreneurial spirit to launch their own home businesses and begin new careers - work at home careers. 72% of American households are thinking about starting a home-based business.

The biggest obstacle for most people wanting to start their own business has been the high cost of starting a new business. However, with new technologies available today, you can start and run a successful home based business for virtually nothing. And you can do so in an almost endless variety of markets.

For the “no”, not all opportunities as advertised are true. According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, a work-at-home scheme as advertised is a get-rich-quick scheme in which a victim is lured by an offer to be employed at home, very often doing some simple task in a minimal amount of time with a large amount of income that far exceeds the market rate for the type of work. The true purpose of such an offer is for the perpetrator to extort money from the victim, either by charging a fee to join the scheme, or requiring the victim to invest in products whose resale value is misrepresented.^[1]

 

Undoubtedly, legitimate work-at-home opportunities do exist, and many people do their jobs in the comfort of their own homes. But anyone seeking such an employment opportunity must be wary of accepting a home employment offer, as only about one in 42 such ads have been determined to be legitimate.^[2] Most legitimate jobs at home require some form of post-high-school education, such as a college degree or certificate, or trade school, and some experience in the field in an office or other supervised setting. Additionally, many legitimate at-home jobs are not like those in schemes are portrayed to be, as they are often performed at least some of the time in the company's office, require more self discipline than a traditional job, and have a higher risk of firing (from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Work-at-home scheme).

 

Wikipedia gives a good summary on the signs of a work-at-home scam versus a legitimate job may include:

• Payment of fee is required prior to starting employment. In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission states that under no circumstances should anyone be forced to pay a fee in order to obtain a job. In many countries, no legitimate employer will require a fee be paid as a condition of starting work (except perhaps a small amount for a criminal background check).
• Pay is too good to be true. Though there may be legitimate jobs in existence in which employees are paid to perform the particular task in question, even from home, in reality, they would be paid a wage that is fair for that type of work and level of education, not the $40 per hour or $3000 per week that is typically offered in a work-at-home scheme.
• Employer will seemingly hire anyone, with no experience necessary and no qualifications. Legitimate work-at-home employers will only be interested in those who have the proper experience, skills, certification, and other qualifying factors, and will give at least some scrutiny to an applicant seeking employment. But the perpetrator of a work-at-home scheme is only interested in the payment required to join.
• Company is little known, and does not seemingly have a customer base bringing them revenue from which they can pay employees.
• Company does not appear to have a permanent location. Its address, phone number, and website appear to be centered around recruitment of employees, not customers.
• Company tries to show unnatural benefits of working in a very short period of time.
• Keeps on contacting you again and again until and unless you reply.
• Multiple pop-ups display upon attempting to exit the web site that is advertising the work-at-home opportunity. Legitimate employment sites will not display this level of desperation, especially during a recession.

If you are seeking legitimate work at home jobs its important to research, learn and educate yourself. Home Job & Business Network provides you with the tools and resources you'll need to do that.

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[1] Federal Trade Commission. / "Federal, State Law Enforcers Complete Bogus Business Opportunity Sweep". ftc.gov. http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2006/12/falsehopes.shtm /. Retrieved 2006-12-06.

[2] "Working From Home: Don't Get Scammed". ABC: Good Morning America. Retrieved 2009-07-03.