Free home base jobs are pretty easy to find, but it's just as easy to fall into a scam. The problem here is that word "free". You want to find one that really is free and the scam artists know that, so they litter their sites with the word "free" even though there's nothing free about it. The truth is that simple little word "free" is actually a good way to tell the difference between a scam home-based job and real home-based job. Unfortunately, you can't rely on the search engine to find you the free ones. Sure you can search for it that way, but then you have to engage your brain and actually read what you see in front of you. The important point here is to never pay for something until you've looked around for a way to get it free. The threads of the Web hang low from the weight of people offering to sell you something they found elsewhere for free.

Here's an example:

Let's say you search for "free home base jobs". One of the first things you're likely to see is a whole host of sites claiming that you can make money by filling out surveys. The truth is you can make money by filling out surveys, but since you put the word free in your search, you wound up finding all of the scam Web sites that want to charge you for a list of companies that pay for online surveys. Ironically, words like "free", and "legitimate" are more likely to land you on a scam site than a good one.

You can still get something useful out of your search term "free home base jobs"... an education. One of the first things you'll come upon is a survey site.

A few seconds of reading and you're already down to where they are explaining to you how easy it will be for you to pay them $35 for the "free" info you want. Now let's search Google for information about that Web site. The first few things we see here are advertisements for that Web site. Right after the advertisements though, the word "scam" starts popping up over and over again. If we dig a little deeper into some of these sites that talk about it being a scam, we hit pay dirt. One of them happens to be an online forum and some of the people responding give us useful information of about real companies that do offer free lists of companies that pay for surveys.

There are two morals to this story:

1) avoid words like "free" and "legitimate" in your searches

2) learn to use the search engines to dig deeper for the information you're really looking for.

So you see, a search term like "free home base jobs", will quickly land you in the soup unless you understand how scam artists think and how to dig deeper to find the information you're really after.

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