Distinctive and common characteristics of scam sites
Many scam websites are there promising to offer high returns within a very short period of time without any effort at all. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chairman Deborah Platt says “There are lots of ways to detect a scam but the simplest advice is to NEVER pay for a job. That's just not the way it works”. Surprised? Online scam fraud is a number one business on the Internet! Another visible factor to identify these sites is that they always have some fancy, jumping, and dancing titles such as Guaranteed, Top Rated, Proven Winner, Top 10, No Risk, Limited Time Offer, Act Now, Big Money $Fast$, Quick and Easy!!!!!, and sometimes seemed to have their Caps Lock key stuck!
Pay first… then…?
Most of the scam sites require some payment before the employment is offered. Often these sites are not very specific about the tasks you have to do in accordance with the job but will pay a lot of attention about getting the money. You’ll have to pay first to get the information from them. “Send us money and we’ll explain everything to you!” (Or you’ll become a looser in your entire life?) “Oh! And that little cost is just for the administrative stuff!” Do you know any company that charges money from their employees for their administrative costs? Think about it! Cost of administration should be priced on customers not on employees.
Big money… free?
Some of the scam offers are too good to be true. No company will be willing to pay you $150 per hour or $3000 per week for clerical work. If they did, who would want to travel and earn money in the difficult way?
Your degree is not of worth to them!
Scam sites wouldn’t be concerned about your education or about your qualifications but will just ask you to join them. They don’t even want to look at your educational certificates. Obviously any organization will do an initial evaluation about the candidate to make sure the person will fit in to the employment. Wouldn’t they?
As seen on TV?
Sites promote that they’ve been featured in CNN, USA today, or New York Times - doesn’t mean they really have done it. They should provide the proper links to the relevant articles as proof.
Spam is scam!
Another trick used by scammers is to use e-mail spam. You get a polite & elegant e-mail from a company saying that they have a dream job and they want you to consider their offer. Why would a person with a dream job to offer go around to people through vast e-mails to find suitable candidates?
Where are all those clients?
Scam sites would give you many references about success stories of employees and the way they feel the freedom, flexibility, etc. about their job. But where are the feedbacks from those customers who obtain the services from them? To whom are they providing these services?
We are out there… Nowhere!!
“Our organization is located downtown….. Central New York.” But is it really an establishment? Dig further into the details and maybe you’ll figure out that the addressing scheme is not the one used in the city!
Home business and work from home jobs are excellent opportunities for a person to develop a career or to make some extra money in spare time. But before proceeding with these kinds of offers, candidates should study them inside out not to be deceived from scams. If you are not careful enough, you may end up with losing money, damaging your reputation or most horribly, criminal charges forced upon you.
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