Stay at home moms find themselves spending time on the internet searching for home business opportunities once the kids are back in school. Moms understand that while work from home opportunities using the internet may be rewarding many of the opportunities may also be scams,and therefore she must be alert in her search for income opportunities online.

Because using the internet to work from home has become such an inviting concept, many opportunities now exist that present legitimate means for working from home. Unfortunately, they are a lot more where the only ones that make money are those offering the opportunity. You need to beware of headlines such as "Learn how to crack the code to internet riches," and "I was a victim of more than 37 scams until I found this internet business opportunity."

When you look through offers for any internet business opportunity you need to start asking yourself some very serious questions about the offers. Many of the offers will carry a similar theme indicating they have found a way to make bundles of cash online, and they want to share that secret with you. You need to ask yourself, why? Here is a complete stranger, willing to share with me the very secret they used to make millions of dollars online.

And of course you know this secret of theirs is not going to be free, sometimes they will say it's only available for a limited one time price of just $19.95 and you will receive the complete information packet of how you can start making money right away online. Shouldn't they be sharing all this information with their own family and close friends so that their entire family could become wealthy to? Why offer such an opportunity to a complete stranger? One possible reason could be that their family and friends had already been suckered into their last get-rich 'quick scheme.

One of the most prolific scams online today is signing up to be a secret shopper. There are many companies that do use secret shoppers to visit stores and restaurants for them, and turn in a review to the company that informs them of how a particular unit is performing, but to claim that a company can set you up with many companies where you will get paid up to $40 an hour doing the things you love to do and keep everything you buy, is nothing more than a scam.

Yes, these companies have the names and addresses of the companies that use secret shoppers and that is all you will be getting. Once you send in your payment, which can varies from $19.95 to $39.95; you will get a list of companies that use secret shoppers along with instructions on filling out their online applications. If the company is looking for more shoppers they might contact you for a future interview. Offers such as these carry no guarantee that you would be chosen as a secret shopper,nor that you will be paid $40 an hour for shopping at stores and restaurants.

Copyright (c) 2008 Martha Lipson