Avoiding Internet Work-At-Home Scams - Page 2
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3. Companies that are hiring do not host their sites on free sites (i.e. Angelfire, Homestead, etc.) nor do they use free or commercial accounts (i.e. Yahoo or AOL). If the company cannot afford a domain name and paid web host, it cannot afford to pay you to work. Understand that I am talking about "jobs" here and not home businesses in which people recruiting others may have a free site or free email.
4. If there are words like "guaranteed income" and specific money amounts, be wary. While jobs will offer salaries such as $10 per hour or $10,000 per year, ads that have huge income amounts and lots of hype should be pursued with great caution.
5. If you get to the end of a work-at-home ad and you don't know the company's name or what the job entails, but it sounds great, beware. Hype is our biggest enemy in the work-at-home jungle. Most work-at-home ads rely on rags to riches stories, words like "guaranteed income", huge dollar amounts, and other gimmicks to entice you. However, any ad in which the job cannot sell itself, must be advertising a crummy job.
As you search for work-at-home jobs, you will learn to decipher the ads if you use the above guidelines. Ads that read like a salesman's pitch are just that. Legitimate jobs will read like job announcements you find in your Sunday paper. To avoid being scammed in a work-at-home job, read all ads carefully, investigate companies fully, and NEVER send money.
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