THE TOP TEN WORST WORK AT HOME SCAMS Part 2
6. Make Lots of Money Taking Surveys You probably get one of
these in your email a week. Sign up for free or for a few of
them a fee, and you will soon earn a steady income just filling
out surveys. It is true that people used to make money doing
this. Not enough to quit there jobs and pay there bills but
$30-$100 or more a month. With the influx of people surfing the
internet trying to get a buck anywhere they can, this is no
longer the case. If it were that easy to make money everyone
would quit there jobs and do it and companies wouldn't be making
much money. The sites are still there, but now most of them put
you in a raffle to earn "cool stuff" not money. Other's will put
you in a raffle to some money. But what are the chances of you
winning. And what are the chances of you winning more than once
a year? That is not steady income. The ones that do say they
will pay you, up up $30 or more for a survey, leave something
out. You will sit and wait for that email telling you that you
have a survey, but you more than likely will never get one. Or
even better you get one, and after filling out 3 or 4 questions
such as age, sex, location, and yearly salary, you will quickly
find out your not what there looking for. Other's will slam your
email with surveys that pay 10 cents if your lucky. At the end
if you can get even $20 a month on surveys then your still
stuck, because many will only mail out checks of $25-$100
dollars, so it would be months before you get the money, IF you
get it at all.
7.Customer Service
There are companies out there who you will apply free to work
for them as a customer service rep, from your home. It seems
legitimate because you didn't have to pay a fee, the website
looks professional, which it usually is and you'll be earning an
income and you don't have to sell anything. The fine print is,
you have just applied to be a telemarketer. I myself just last
year read over the entire site and in the end all the
information and FAQ informed me that I would be making no cold
calls, or outgoing calls. I would be taking incoming calls from
people who are customers. That much was true. However the last
phone call between me and my representative/manager I am
informed that I will need to pay $29.99 a month for the phone
fees and but I'll make it back with my commissions. Fee and
commissions all in the same sentence about a job that wasn't
telemarketing. Yes I would be receiving calls from customers,
and I would be getting a salary but what you don't find out til
you apply and are accepted is that you will be making maybe
$2.00/hr if your lucky and you will be trying to get a bigger
income by pushing extra products on there customers who are
calling for help. You also don't know that when the customer
calls and goes down the line of being transferred to you, they
are already inundated with so many product ads from other phones
workers and automated wait commercials that they will be cursing
a blue streak at you, and good luck making an income. There are
actually a handful of companies online who are hiring customer
service reps. But just like the true typist jobs, many want
someone with experience. They don't want someone who can't take
care of their customer. And there are others who will train you
if you have no experience but are someone they are looking for.
There are a few, but it's hard finding them amid all the
telephone job scams out there.
8. The Instant Online Business
You pay a sometimes huge fee and you can be making money in
minutes. Or so they claim. Many of these sites are just selling
you an ebook "telling" you how to start your own no fail work at
home business. The website is filled with pictures of people on
the beach, and yacht's having fun. There are the testimonials
from people who they say already bought the book and made so
much money in a short time. All you need to do is press the x on
your browser and get off that site. The only person who is going
to make money is the one selling that expensive ebook. There are
books out there with real information that will help you. But
people have to remember that the internet is big and most of
these sites are selling what you can find for free other places.
Plus starting an internet business is not easy and it's not
quick. For some it took years before they really started earning
an income that allowed them to live comfortably. For others they
had to quit after losing hundred's of thousands of dollars.
Online business creation companies will make you a website and
tell you your good to go. You only have one problem, it's not
hard to create a website, there are billions of them. The
biggest problem of any internet business is getting traffic and
sales. Neither happen overnight even with the best website and
product.
9. Medical Transcriptionist/Medical Billing
There are ads all over from the hundred's that come up in search
engines to the dozens that are emailed to you on any given
month. "Work from home, no experience necessary. Make over $3000
a month." Medical transcription is actually a legitmate business
but it takes a lot of hard work to get it going. The ads will
tell you how easy it is. You pay them and mostly get a floppy
disk or papers and that's it. All you find out is that you need
to call doctor's offices to see if any of them will hire you.
The fees are usually outrageous as well anywhere from $300 to
well over $1000 for there "software" and just like the data
entry, it's the only thing you can use. There are real places
hiring transcriptionists online, however the no experience rule
you see some advertise is a good indicator that they are a scam.
You need experience, you need to know all of the coding and
medical language. Would you want someone typing up your file who
doesn't understand what there typing, and make key mistakes that
could endanger your life? It should also be noted that the
scammers have also extended the scam by creating "schools", for
you to pay them and get a degree by doing a home course which is
actually not a real certificate. To become a real certified
Medical Transcriptionist you need to go to American Association
for Medical Transcription and read all about the Medical
Transcription Certification Program (MTCP).
10. Craft Assembly
Even as I was doing research for this article I came across a
message board where many people were responding to an ad that
went like this
"Work At Home! Make Crafts For cash! Are you looking to work
from home doing assembly, crafts, sewing or making jewelry, and
getting paid for it? Start earning money from home today!"
I was so very disturbed to see over 50 people giving out there
emails while begging for more information on this. Stay away
from it unless you have done the work of really checking a
company out and even then I would pass, because there are simply
only a handful that are legitimate and I have NEVER even
stumbled across them as of yet.
Craft Assemly, I saved the worst for last because the ones who
run these ads online and offline, are right at the bottom of the
scum bucket. There are 3 types of scammers for this one.
Crappy Materials - With all 3 types of companies it is usually
the same.
Type1 sends out an ad. You respond to the ad and they want money
from you, but don't worry it's "refundable". The amount of money
is many times over a $1000, and they will tell you it's to weed
out the people who aren't serious as well as to cover the cost
of the materials. You will need to get expensive equipment such
as a sewing machine or a machine to make signs. You of course
have to get everything from their company because they need to
make sure that you are using only the finest materials and
equipment. You get the package and the materials are crap to say
the least, the instructions are hardly understandable and you
are left struggling to up together the dolls, aprons, crafts and
other items. Your only problem is many of these so called
"companies" are a P.O. Box which the owners have closed up and
moved on. You are left with products that you will probably toss
or have to sell yourself. End result all they were selling were
the machines, that's where these people make there money from,
not the "crafts" they want you to build.
Type 2 is the same except you send them in the products and they
tell you that the product is not up to there standards. They are
right, after all with the shoddy materials they sent who can
make a quality item? Congradulations, they have your money and
that's about it. End result, they too have your money from the
products you "had" to buy only from them.
Type 3 well, they are simply the worst of this little trinity.
Everything goes the same as type 1 except that they might
actually send good materials. You send back the finished product
and you get a response saying that the product isn't up to there
standards. Unlike Type 2, the product is usually good and they
sell it, while they make you think they tossed it in the garbage
because it was just so awful. They have the money from the
machines and your crafts and you get the unpleasant experience
of being scammed.
There they are for now. Unfortunately there are so many scams
out there that was only the tip of the iceberg. The best advice
I can give is to use common sense. If someone is telling you
that you will make $10,000 a month, shut the door in there face,
close the webpage, or hang up on them. Also be very wary of an
ad that promises a lot but gives you virtually no information on
what you are supposed to be doing.
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Written by Marsha James mjames20@cfl.rr.com
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