Starting a work at Home Based Business
There is a massive amount of home-based business offers that can
be found online, in newspaper ads or magazine advertisements.
Some of these work at home-based business opportunities are
legitimate and others are not. One way to find out if they are a
legitimate business opportunity is to research them well. If in
doubt, get in touch with the Better Business Bureau or the
Federal Trade Commission. They usually have a list of complaints
on these so-called opportunities and do follow up on them.
One of the ever so popular ads in every Sunday paper across the
nation is the envelope stuffing opportunity. With today's
technology, there is absolutely no need for an individual to
hand stuff envelopes. It is just not reality. Most of these ads
are responded to by asking the individual for a small
investment. What that person receives for their investment is
usually instructions to place their own ad and scam the next
individual that falls for it. This scam works thousands of times
per year. It is one of the oldest tricks in the book, yet we
still have people falling into the trap.
Another opportunity that you see mostly in magazine
advertisements is the "assembling products opportunity". This
one too, has been around for a long time. What typically happens
in this "home based opportunity" is that the individual is
required to pay a small deposit for their unassembled products.
After they complete the assembly of the products they find out
that they are on their own to sell the product.
There is another home-based business opportunity out there that
is fairly new to the scam world. It claims to pay an individual
money to do the paperwork on government tax refunds. This is
your first red flag. The government has their own employees
doing this called the IRS. After you call a toll free number, a
message comes on and asks you to send a small amount of money to
cover the cost of shipping and handling to a post office box.
This is your second red flag. After you send the money, you
never hear from them again and there really is no way to find
out who, why or what happened to you shipping and handling
money.
For every negative work at home business opportunity out there,
there are several legitimate work at home based business
opportunities as well. A person just needs to use common sense
and good judgment when responding to these home based business
opportunity advertisements.
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