A quick look at any
internet-based job search results, be it on craigslist or on
another job site, will reveal a host of job offers enticing you
to make money from home quickly and easily, raking in hundreds
of dollars a day with just an email account and some quick
thinking. Even the newspaper classifieds have been filled with
these ads, offering at-home data processing jobs or
money-by-email offers. Though a very few of these make money
from home ads are legitimate, the grand share of them are scams.
How do I know this? Because I was caught up in one of them
myself.And believe me it was nothing but a Scam.
Though the old
envelope-stuffing or pyramid schemes have died out for the most
part, these online make money from home schemes have quickly
replaced them. They’re nothing but enticing, offering good, easy
money from the comfort of your own home and keyboard. I was home
from college for a few weeks and had a lot of time to kill
before going back to school. I was pretty close to broke, so
making money from home seemed like a great idea. I replied to
one of the job postings, inquiring about the position and
sending in my resume for the company’s review.
I received a
quick reply, which told me that I had been approved and that I
would be processing all sorts of orders from home, all I needed
was an email address. The email was vague on what sort of work I
would be doing, which should have roused my suspicions. It did,
but not enough to make me stop reading. The email said the only
thing I had to do was complete a seven dollar payment to the
company via PayPal to verify that I was serious about the
application and to cover the cost of sending me my “training
materials.” This should have set off an alarm as well. Imagine,
you apply to work at a company, they agree to hire you, but ask
you for a $10 bill first. Still excited about my luck, I paid my
money. In return, I received a MS Word file detailing how to
propagate the scam, putting up job postings, offering the job
processing orders, and then receiving money from the suckers who
replied to the posting. You can only imagine how I felt ,I was
wild to say the least. Scaming other people isnt my idear of a
nice way to make money from home.
After a lot of badgering, the guy
who scammed me eventually refunded my payment. A quick Google
search revealed that the scam is pretty well known,which by the
way is a great way to check most online business opportunitys
just a quick google search just last week saved me again when I
got a very professional email from yahoo, only to find out it
was the newest scam going around and that I should have realized
that it was too good to be true. If you really want to make
money from home, stay away from these scams and look for
postings which look for freelance writing, editing, or design.
If anybody wants you to pay money in order to take a job you’re
going to get scammed without a second thought.
Just take the time to either
bluid your own idear online or take the time to look into what
your getting into before you start sending money out.
This article on
Make Money From Home was written by Jaws Truely
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