Outsmart The Work At Home Scammers
I'm sure we've all seen the ads: "Earn $1000's weekly stuffing
envelopes from home!" Have you ever been tempted to send in your
money for that one? I have. Luckily I didn't do it, but I know
many people have. It sounds so great, doesn't it? Sit at home
watching television while stuffing hundreds of envelopes, and
get a nice check every week. If only such a job existed! Don't
fool yourself, it doesn't. Why? Companies can easily purchase a
machine that will not only stuff the envelopes for them, it will
also fold, collate and apply postage in many cases. These
machines usually cost a few thousand dollars. Why on earth would
they pay you thousands of dollars a month to stuff their
envelopes, when they could purchase a machine for a one time
charge that would continue to stuff their envelopes for years to
come? It makes no sense.
Scammers want you to believe. They know you're desperate to work
at home. They know that Moms would do almost anything to be able
to stay home with their children and earn a decent income at the
same time. They know that college students need extra money, and
retirees are living on a fixed income. And they want your money.
They know you're willing to dish out ten or twenty bucks if it
will allow you to earn some good extra cash.
Scammers are very practiced in saying exactly the right words to
get you to believe they are for real. They've been doing it for
years, and probably won't stop any time soon. Too many people
fall for their lies, and the scammers are earning a very nice
income themselves - by suckering you out of your hard-earned
money!
However, there is something you should think about for a moment.
Scammers are not the only ones doing the fooling much of the
time. We also fool ourselves. We see an ad like the one above,
and we begin to dream about how great that would be, to sit home
and stuff envelopes all day. We visualize ourselves going to the
bank with a hefty check, being able to pay all of our bills on
time, and have money left over. We see our children helping us
to stuff envelopes so the family can earn even more money. We
see ourselves driving a new car, buying a nice home, all from
our envelope-stuffing proceeds.
At the same time, a little voice deep inside us starts to speak
up, "Wait a minute, something about this seems to good to be
true ..." -- But we squelch down that little voice. We don't
want to hear that. We tell the voice, "You're ruining my
fantasy, shut up. It has to be true; I need this so badly. It
would be the answer to my prayers." So we send our money, get
ripped off and then kick ourselves for being so stupid. The
scammer merely planted the idea in our heads, we picked it up
and ran with it.
Don't let them do that to you, and don't do that to yourself!
Be realistic about your search for work at home. Understand that
working at home means working at home. You can't expect to get a
mindless job and earn great money from it. Most often, you will
earn less working at home than you do at a regular job. (Unless
you start your own business.)
As a side note, many home business opportunities are guilty of
the same tactics when trying to recruit new representatives.
They tell you that you will earn great money while having fun.
That may be true, but they conveniently forget to mention that
you will actually have to WORK. You will have to be consistent
in your efforts, and work on improving your skills, both
professional and personal. You will need to sell something,
either a product or a service. Which means you will need to talk
to people, either online, over the phone, or in person. You
don't just sign up and start cashing big paychecks. Keep that in
mind when exploring business opportunities.
Ultimately, we are responsible for our own actions. Yes, the
scammers are using dirty tricks. But we have the option whether
to believe them or not. Fortunately, we can be smarter than they
are. We all have this neat little built-in warning system called
intuition. Use it. If something seems too good to be true, or
you have any doubts at all, listen to that.
Rather than being desperate to work at home, be determined to
find a REAL opportunity. Use common sense and learn as much as
you can about scams and the genuine opportunities available.
There are so many great companies out there that really do want
to hire good people to work at home. And as time goes on, more
and more great companies will be joining the ranks. This is very
good news for us because the more legitimate companies there
are, the less opportunity scammers will have. They will slowly
but surely be pushed out. What a grand day that will be!