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by Shaun Mcclelland, Sha

Looking for those legitimate home business opportunities that are out there? They are really there, not all of them are scams. Make sure you always check with the Better Business Bureau before signing into any at home job. It is always better to find out about a scam before you have bought into it. Real businesses will be interested in what you are going to do for them. They will want to know that they will be represented in a becoming fashion that will make them more money in the long run from your success. A real company that is looking for affiliates will not SPAM your e-mail with offers. These are the tools of the scam artists out there. They send bulk junk e-mails hoping someone will, and they do, will fall for it. The real companies will post the needs on sites that are relative to what they do and sell. You will go to a specific site of a specific company and it will have an advertisement to work at home. They will also expect you to seek them out and will probably not even bother with you till you make the initial contact. You will able to find other sources in magazines and books related to business or a specific type of business as well. Even when you do find that legitimate at home business opportunity you will want to look at their history. You will want to know the experience others have had working for them and check the Better Business Bureau for any complaints. Never just invest with out digging around for a while.

There are some red flags to be looking for when searching for a home-based work opportunity. If it sounds too good to be true then it probably is. You should be wary of any business that offers you unrealistic amounts of money for mundane tasks like stuffing envelopes. If someone offers you thousands of dollars per hour to do nothing of any value then there is probably a problem. Think about it, would you pay someone $1000 per hour to watch television and eat Cheetos? Not likely. Real companies expect real work done right not laziness. Working from home does not mean you do nothing. If the company puts pressure on you to “decide now” or tries to force you to “buy now”. This is not a very good sign and is not legitimate. Real business owners want money but they want to know who you are and what you will be doing for their company's name. They don't want just anyone to be promoting them. Be wary of having to pay to get a job. You don't have to pay the grocery store to work for them and it applies to at home jobs as well. More than likely this is a scam. Check your state agency to see if the previous buyers list is posted as required by law. If the company you are looking at doesn't have one then don't buy into it.

When most people think of the internet, oftentimes the first things that come to mind are pornography and scams. These dirty trends seem to bombard us everywhere we turn in our honest information seeking efforts. Unfortunately, these things must pay to whoever is spamming us with them so the end is nowhere in sight. You can side step the pornography but the scams parading as legitimate businesses are tougher. Your only defense is to be prepared.

One of the most common online scams is the whole survey taking industry. At one time it was possible to make some money as a survey participant, but that was back in the days before the internet. It's so cheap for companies to get surveys taken for free that there's no need for them to pay anything worth your time. They often have a few that pay a buck or two, if you're willing to spend an hour on their survey. Others offer entrance into sweepstakes and contests for prizes, contests that you somehow never win.

Save some money and a lot of time by skipping the survey taking scam.

Another online business scam is any company that will guarantee you'll make thousands of dollars by purchasing their membership. One of the slimiest of these promised that online businesses were guaranteed to make 100,000 dollars because their company would send millions of visitors to their website, and they would only have to cut the company in on 10% of that four months from then. The memberships were sold and no traffic was delivered.

Another few thousand people lose money to a scam artist.

A common scam unfortunately uses proper business channels. They solicit a bid for your services, agree to pay, and you receive payment in advance well over what you bid. When you contact the "client" to confirm their generosity, they explain there was a mistake and that you need to send the extra funds to another supplier of theirs, one in China or Nigeria via Western Union. This is a huge scam that is taking business owners for suckers by the storm.

This same type of thing happens on eBay. A word to the wise, NEVER agree to accept payment through MoneyGram. It is used and abused by scam artists, and is suspicious in and of itself. Never let anybody on eBay pay you through Escrow.com or Western Union. The safest way to do serious business on eBay is to have your own merchant account and only accept payment that way. Cashier's checks are usually safe, however, money orders are fraudulently spreading as another choice of scam artists.

Be safe and follow your gut. If something seems fishy, it usually is, and if it sounds too good to be true, it almost always is. Online business is better and bigger than ever, do don't let a few scam artists scare you away from taking advantage of it's benefits for your business.

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