Work at home scams are considered as the
top online scams these days, and here in this article we will try to
discuss few common types of work at home scams.
You can see various
lucrative work at home opportunities everyday on the internet. If you
are a frequent email user, you must receive emails on a regular basis
regarding different offers of work at home, and each offer promises to
make you a millionaire in a few weeks time. Following are some common
work at home scams.
Envelope Stuffing Jobs
Envelope stuffing jobs are
considered as the most frequently occurred work at home scam. You will
find a job ad in which it is mentioned that you can make a few hundred
dollars in an hour by just stuffing the envelopes. When you apply for
this job you will be asked to place an ad, and the expense of that ad
will be paid by you. Through this ad you are actually scamming the other
people.
Email Processing Jobs
This is another type of envelope stuffing jobs, but in this type of scam, the scammers
use email instead of the ad. In this scam you will be asked to pay a
fee which normally ranges between $10 to $40, and you will be asked to
send the same ad through emails to other people.
Typists
No doubt that the legitimate positions
of home based typing work are available, but none of these legitimate
job asks you to pay money to start working as a typist. Besides that,
there is lots of competition in legitimate online typist jobs so it is
never easy to get. This is also another variation of envelope stuffing,
and email processing scams.
List of Companies That Provide Home Based Work
A number of people got scammed on the
name of list of home based job companies. You are promised to get a list
of hundreds of companies that provide guaranteed home based work. You
have to pay a fee to get this list of the companies, but actually the
list is prepared from telephone or internet directories. Many of the
companies mentioned on the list does not exist at all, and if there are
few exist, it is not necessary that they give you a legitimate online
work.
Reading the Books Jobs
This is the variation of the list of
companies scam in which you will be promised to be provided the list of
publishers that pay you a handsome amount of money just for reading
their books online. If you search yourself on the web, you can easily
find all the information yourself which is mentioned on the list, so you
need to avoid such type of offers.
Chain Letter
Often you have seen a $6 chain letter
offer in your Inbox. This is a chain type of letter which is one of the
most common online scam.
All the above mentioned scams are very
popular, and the frequency of such online scams is increasing with each
day. You need to be very careful before paying anyone on the internet in
order to avoid these common scams.
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