Work from home scams are definitely out there and most people don't want to admit it once they have been taken for a ride. If you've never been scammed, well, it's likely because you either really haven't-- or you're in major denial. They say the first step to healing is admitting the truth, learning from your mistakes and getting back in the search for legitimate online employment.
So let's do this together, shall we? Let's admit the reasons you got taken by work from home scams.
You didn't do your research. You jumped right into the work from home job hunt without any information whatsoever as to what's available and what will realistically get you where you want to be. You jumped on the first bright sparkly ad that promised you could make thousands of dollars overnight by only working a few hours a day. You got greedy. You got dollar signs in your eyes. So when you were asked for forty or fifty bucks for the privilege of working from home, it didn't seem so bad. After all, you'd make that back tenfold by next Tuesday, right?If you had done your research into work from home opportunities, you would have learned the number one rule: no legitimate home-based job requires you to pay for the opportunity to work from home.
You were lazy. You decided to take a shortcut. Instead of investigating work from home job opportunities on your own, you decided to pay someone who had already done the work. You paid for a laundry list or membership to a site claiming to have secret knowledge of all the best work from home jobs on the internet. However, what you really got was a list of old, outdated prospects or a webpage filled with broken links.
The painful truth is any information you might want or need about online work from home jobs are freely listed on the internet. All you have to do is look. Sure, it may not all be in one place and it may take some time and effort-- but so does any job search.
You didn't research the company offering you a job. You got so excited at finding an online job with stellar benefits that you handed over all your personal information right away. Within a month, the feds were knocking on your door and wanting to hold you responsible for bank fraud when really you were just the victim of identity theft.
Now you know internet thieves are extremely sophisticated and can create convincing 'here today, gone tomorrow' websites in the blink of an eye. Next time, stop to research all potential job offers and the companies they come from. Make phone calls. When it comes to work from home jobs, you won't regret being careful.
