Archive for September, 2009
September 14th, 2009 | 
Author: The work at home community is a veritable breeding ground for scams and the likes of them. There are false job offers and claims that claim they will help you build your home business. There are offers of free money and even offers of finding legitimate work at home jobs with little or no money or time investment.
How are these jobs so elusive and plentiful? Most of them are disguised as legitimate job offers or businesses that have a legitimate sounding business model.
Whether they’re offering a product or service, they have a way of making it sound very real and very doable for the average, everyday person.
However, there are some businesses and people in business who use legitimate business places as a front for scam operations. But in order to separate the legitimate jobs from the false jobs requires diligence in time and in research.
Take note that whenever you are notified via phone or email that you have received a job or position that you didn’t even apply for, it is undoubtedly a scam. Many of these unsolicited offers originate from unknown sources…these offers are never legitimate.
The scammers peruse job search sites, seeking any pertinent information about you, often posing themselves as a potential employer. They know that this will get your attention.
They do this by browsing the database of the forums job searches looking for people who are looking for jobs. They know that these people are in need of money, an income, and they pose themselves as being the source with that information.
Once they have your email addresses, they then pitch the fake job offer and just sit back and wait for you to either provide them with your credit card information or provide them with even further personal information so that they can continue to send you more job appeals for work that doesn’t exist.
The only thing that you can do to guard against being caught in this type of scam is to immediately delete the job offers as you get them.
You should never respond to them, as this action will simply be notification that your email address is valid.
Therefore, there will continue to be more job offers, more appeals and more annoying emails. Deleting them and NOT responding will often discourage them from sending even more appeals.
Working from home is a dream come true for some whose desire is to enjoy the convenience and flexibility that the lifestyle has to offer. The very idea of working from home conjures up ideas of easy living, mid-afternoon naps, and lunch with friends and frequent coffee breaks from their very own coffee makers!
But, although the idea is romantic, the true life of the work at home entrepreneur is anything but romantic. Yes there are the flexible, lazy days, but there is also the realism that no work = no pay.
Working from home is fun and exciting, but only if you are willing to work hard, do your research, market your skills and abilities and put in the necessary time to establish yourself as an expert in your field.
In return for this dedication and hard work, you get to decide your own income level, giving yourself raises as is needed and necessary and yes, you get to take off work when YOU want to.
Most definitely, the ability to create an income from the comforts of home is a very exciting one!
But what is the main reason(s) that so many people are attracted to the very idea of working from home? And why is it that moms and dads are turning in their resignation notices at their stable corporate jobs to pursue those proverbial “pipe dreams” that everyone says they’re chasing?
The work at home lifestyle is an attractive one for a number of reasons.
A work at home job offers flexibility
You enjoy a certain level of freedom working from home
There is a convenience working from home and setting your own schedule
You can reduce and eliminate a lot of overhead expenses
Many people are seeking ideas and turning to the draw of the work at home lifestyle as a means of reducing stress (daily commutes, monthly deadlines), reducing their living expenses (taxes, gas, childcare) and finding optional means of creating an income in lieu of the traditional 9-5 fixed corporate work schedules.
Some of these reasons are enough to convince some to even look into it!
And, in addition to the flexibility that the lifestyle creates, the income that can be created is also a draw as well.
