Do you like the prospect of working from home but are worried about Internet Scams? At Become A Virtual Assistant, we understand your concerns as there are so many horror stories out there. Hopefully, having read this article and taken advantage of my 10 years Internet experience, you will feel more knowledgeable about the subject. You should be able to quickly check if something is for real or a fake.
Home Typing Scams - be very careful about this one
Fortunately, these scams are becoming less and less but please be warned that they do still exist. Read on to learn how you can work out if it is a fake or not.
Medical Billing Scam
If you are asked to pay for billing software, take this as a warning sign about a scam and surf on.
Craft Assembly
As you know there is a lot of competition out there for selling goods, in the UK and abroad, so the chances of you being able to sell home-made items at a profit is unlikely. That is how this type of work fails but added to that some scams ask you to return the completed items to them for a quality check. As you may guess, you fail the quality check (no matter how good the items) and you never see the products, your payment or anything in return for your efforts again.
How to sniff out a scam
The list below contains some questions to be asking yourself to try and identify scams. It is not an extensive list but a good start to raise your awareness.
Does the company have a website?
Is it a good website and not something put together by an 11 year old?
Does it have lots of pages and good explanations?
Are there any testimonials and do they have pictures and contact details?
Does the company offer video or other training?
MOST IMPORTANTLY - Does it have a money back guarantee and does that guarantee have a nice big black and gold logo that gives the timescale for the guarantee. If the company is paid via Clickbank/PayPal or PayDotCom you will ALWAYS be able to get your money back in 60 days.
Look out for other organisations that may have logos on the site that are trust logos of various types and check them out - this is down to you.
Do your research, we have done ours and found a few sites that are not scams.
Think logically about it. If the offer seems too good to be true i.e. earning $25,000 in three months, it probably is a scam. There is no easy way of making money fast.
You can earn a living on-line, many of us do, just follow the link at the bottom of the page for a site we have researched heavily and really does work.
