Top 10 Work At Home and Home Based Business Scams

Top 10 Work At Home and Home Based Business Scams: "Top 10 Work At Home and Home Based Business Scams and How to Avoid Them - Part 1
Home-based business and work-at-home opportunity scams rank very high on the list of the top types of Internet fraud.

In this issue, we'll focus on the Top 10 home-based business/work-at-home scams. We'll give you the straight goods on envelope stuffing, mystery shopping, and other common home-based business 'opportunities' you may have seen floating around the Net.

Then in the next issue, we'll give you some important tips you can use to kick the tires of any online job offers or business opportunities you find so you can protect yourself from those that are scams.

Work-At-Home and Home-Based Business Scams

There are two basic types of scams involved here. Scammers using both types are aiming at folks who want to make money from home, either by:

1. Having you work from home, doing envelope stuffing, craft assembly, or other tasks where you are (supposedly) paid by a company as an employee.

There are certainly some legitimate telecommuting jobs, but work-from-home jobs are often just big scams.

Before we go any further, a sobering quote: 'There are very few legitimate [work-at-home job] opportunities available,' says Beverley Williams, President and Founder of the American Association of Home-Based Businesses.

2. 'Helping' you start your own home-based business, as a mystery shopper, network marketer, or other businesses where the only money anyone sees is the money the scammer pockets.

Certainly, there are LOTS of legitimate businesses that can help you start your own home business. We'll help you figure out which are real -- and which are just scams.

Our goal with Internet ScamBusters is to"