Avoid The Scam

Don't Get Scammed 

Home working scams can fall into three categories these are; directory scams, recruitment scams and craft work scams.

Stay well clear of so called get rich quick schemes, the only person who will get rich quick is the seller. If their was a magic system to make yourself a fortune overnight, don't you think the whole world would be full of very rich people?

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Directory Scams. If a company is claiming to offer a variety of different types of work it is usually not offering any work at all, but is selling a directory of other companies claiming to offer work. Sometimes the company will actually tell you it is selling a directory of hundreds of companies offering homework, but what you will actually receive for your money is a list of companies who almost all want their own registration fee, assuming that is they still exist. More than often these list or well out of date. Also, don't be taken in by companies offering to refund your fee if you don't find work. Their conditions make this virtually impossible.

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Recruitment Scams You've probably seen these in newsagents' windows among other places offering homeworking opportunities. You are told that you will be paid for envelope filling, or redirecting envelopes at anything from 25c per envelope to $1.50 per envelope. You usually pay a registration fee in the region of $15 and may get a homeworking directory for this price.However it is dressed up, all you are doing is trying to recruit other people into the same scheme, so you only earn your money by riping off other people.

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Craft Scams More often these will appear in local and national newspapers. You send a registration fee to a company for a start-up kit for making up items, to return to them on completion. When you receive the kit you will either find sub standard or wrong materials, or missing instructions and that they take considerably longer to complete than the advert suggested. This however, is largely irrelevant as the company will reject your finished goods on the basis that they fail their high quality standards. It will not be possible to meet these standards as the companies have no intention of paying out any money.

Paul Alan.

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