Many people search the net to find out earning opportunities, online work at home sites but most of the times they don't get the reliable information.
When you first start searching for online earning, it is very difficult to find the reliable resources. There are millions of scam sites which can snatch your money and wasting your time as well. I have wasted a lot of time searching and then working for online work at home sites. Most of the sites which offer pay per click, pay per sign up, survey sites don't pay you as they promise. Best way to know the truth is to search the net for reliable resouces and sites which could help you in this regard. I would be reviewing many sites and useful resouces which would help you learn about scam sites and how to search for reliable information at the net.
"Fraud.org" provides these tips for avoiding work at home scams:
- Know who you’re dealing with. The company may not be offering to employ you directly, only to sell you training and materials and to find customers for your work.
- Don’t believe that you can make big profits easily. Operating a home-based business is just like any other business – it requires hard work, skill, good products or services, and time to make a profit.
- Be cautious about emails offering work-at-home opportunities. Many unsolicited emails are fraudulent.
- Get all the details before you pay. A legitimate company will be happy to give you information about exactly what you will be doing and for whom.
- Find out if there is really a market for your work. Claims that there are customers for work such as medical billing and craft making may not be true. If the company says it has customers waiting, ask who they are and contact them to confirm. You can also ask likely customers in your area (such as doctors for medical billing services) if they actually employ people to do that work from home.
- Get references for other people who are doing the work. Ask them if the company kept its promises.
- Be aware of legal requirements. To do some types of work, such as medical billing, you may need a license or certificate. Check with your state attorney general’s office. Ask your local zoning board if there are any restrictions on operating a business from your home. Some types of work cannot be done at home under federal law. Look for the nearest U.S. Department of Labor in the government listings of your phone book.
- Know the refund policy. If you have to buy equipment or supplies, ask whether and under what circumstances you can return them for a refund.
- Beware of the old “envelope stuffing” scheme. In this classic scam, instead of getting materials to send out on behalf of a company, you get instructions to place an ad like the one you saw, asking people to send you money for information about working at home. This is an illegal pyramid scheme because there is no real product or service being offered. You won’t get rich, and you could be prosecuted for fraud.
- Be wary of offers to send you an “advance” on your “pay.” Some con artists use this ploy to build trust and get money from your bank. They send you a check for part of your first month’s “pay.” You deposit it, and the bank tells you the check has cleared because the normal time has passed to be notified that checks have bounced. Then the crook contacts you to say that you were mistakenly paid the wrong amount or that you need to return a portion of the payment for some other reason. After you send the money back, the check that you deposited finally bounces because it turned out to be an elaborate fake. Now the crooks have your payment, and you’re left owing your bank the amount that you withdrew.
- Do your own research about work-at-home opportunities. The “Work-At-Home Sourcebook” and other resources that may be available in your local library provide good advice and lists of legitimate companies that hire people to work for them at home. You may discover that these companies hire only local people and that there is nothing available in your area.
Resouces helping you find online reliable 'work at home' sites
* PTC Talk is a site which helps you finding the sites which pay you really. They bring the proof of payments from pay to sites, and they also show the top 10 paying sites which are voted by visitors.
* 'Been Paid' is a reliable resource, a directory of get paid to programs that are verified by their members. This site is online from 2003 and helps its members to earn online. They have around 10,000 members, and by subsrcibing to their newsletter you get the updated information about the scam sites and the links to reliable online work at home, get paid to sites.
There are more sites which you can check by visiting this blog. I would be reviewing those sites or links in seperate posts.
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