Are work-at-home business opportunities truly safe? Well, like anything some are and some are not. A business, which one can run out of their home makes sense for a lot of people including working moms, however there have been some unethical practitioners in this sector of business opportunities, which have caught they eye of the Federal Trade Commission for fraudulent inducements.

In a recent report by the Federal Trade Commission on proposed rulemaking changes for all business opportunities, work at home business opportunities were cited as often problematic. Below are some of the observations in experience that the Federal Trade Commission has encountered when dealing with fraudulent work at home business opportunity schemes and why the FTC is considering them in their upcoming rulemaking changes;

Work-at-home schemes