Internet Work At Home Scams | Internet Crimes

Internet work scams or work at home (legit) income online, is a form of an internet crime and hundreds fall for the moneyless offer of internet work every day. What is an internet crime? There are seven types recognized although any type of cyber crime is fairly new along with the prosecution of one found guilty. Spam, fraud, obscene content, harassment drug trafficking, cyber terrorism and cyber warfare are recognized by the FBI as crimes that can be prosecuted, but very difficult to prove with all of the hacking material that provides the offender to cloak their tracks. So your best defense is to know what is a real legitimate job offer online and those other offers that are not so legit.

I traveled this road myself off and on for about a year. Gullible to the empty promises, countless survey sites, promising the simplicity of earning money even while you sleep. The last thing on my mind was sleep, for just to register to one "money making site" felt like the only way to earn money was donating an egg, or handing over my first born.

How To Recognize A Job Scam

General rule for recognizing a job scam, you should never have put up checking or credit card info. If "work at home" company offers a one time fee for even a dollar trial, click off the page and immediately unsubscribe. I can't tell you how many hours I wasted reading their bogus web page, watching their testimonies of "other" members earning thousands of dollars in their first month.

If you give the company any type payment for a trial period you need to realize that the trial period is a dollar day for two weeks, and most times you will have to fight them tooth and nail to cancel the membership after your trial period ends. So instead of configuring a dollar for a "risk free" trial at minimum you can spend up to $100 dollars in the first month and make no profit. Even if the company guarantees a full refund it may take up to a month to get your money back and even longer to recover from spending you did not have in the first place.

Members, that is a word in a job offer to steer clear of when looking for work online. Usually with any membership there is a fee to join. From my job experience, whenever hired, I was never asked to cough up one dime upon hire, and if there was uniform costs, it came out of my paycheck at a reasonable rate. Think about that for a minute, have you ever had to pay anything up front upon hire in the outside world? And if you did or ever asked to, I would think twice about working for the company.

Look For "Legit" Money Sites

Yes the websites that claim "legit" online work income are apart of the internet scams. If you are familiar with the lingo that many online companies use to reel you in, then you already are aware of the wording tactics applied to lure in potential buyers.

What are you buying anyway? When a company requires a purchase before profit, ask yourself why? Then ask them why, and then again. Chances are they do not have an email or a source of contact to directly deal with. This is another red flag to look for. Multiple websites that keep directing you to the same company is another sign of a work at home scam. Even the negative reviews about the company.

Here's how it works:

They set up the main attraction page, a big banger of a deal and offer. If this doesn't reel you in to buy then what they do is build 5 other "puppet" sites, these can be blogs or even appear as a legit Mr. Joe's website stating his progress and how he now earns enough money to support his family of five. Then somewhere in the site you will see a link that will lead you back to the first banger website. These "puppet" sites may also include testimonials from people stating their success but pay attention to the pictures of the people, there are generic avatars. There was one site that used the same photos of people with different names.

After countless hours I will never get back of scouring my junk emails, my last hurrah's attempt to find a legit ' "work at home get rich while you sleep offer" was my last. I spent over two hours applying and watching videos all the while promised it was free. This ground breaking new software that was going to make me and my family live happily ever after. I admit it, I believed, I wanted someone out there in cyber space really be trustworthy and give us middle class a chance at that white picket fence. Needless to say, at the very end....through my watery eyes filled with hope, I only needed to pay the incredible deal of 49.95 to help keep the soft ware going. I was floored, more than that, hurt and betrayed for the last time.

So what was my first reaction? I emailed that s.o.b and gave it to him. I said all the things you may be feeling if you have already been down this road plus I threw in a few F-bombs to accentuate my disgust. I told that slime bag if this was the new million dollars club, then he could cough up the effin money himself. I did get one reply back, stating I must be confused with the incredible offer given to me. Given? Really did he just say that! Well if my first email wasn't hateful enough, then I am sure you can imagine the second. So far there has not been a reply, or restraining order delivered to my door. I still keep the bat by my bed, oh yea, I gave it to that guy and his website.

I felt compelled to write about this, so maybe others would be on the defense to this new wave tactic of scamming. Some of these sites almost resemble the pyramid scheme, you pay $9.95 for a membership, build a website, set the trap promising training kits to give the inside curve how to make the money one desires, then some other hopeless soul clicks to join and you get the commission. I am sorry, I think you, the reader, have far better attributes in this life than that.

If it sounds to good to be true, guess what. Just think of online jobs as you would any other job, you are going to put in at least 40 hours a week for a full time position. It is going to take work, and as much as you put in over time you will get that back, and maybe even more. The greatest advice to success I have heard is, do what you love and find a way to make a living out of it. Take advantage of search engines they are like your personal human resource guide. They have all the research right at your finger tips, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Don't get me wrong there are good income enhancement opportunities out there, but keep in mind it is going to remind you of a search and rescue mission in the Sahara desert and you just ran out of water. It can get frustrating, and in the beginning you may spend 10 to even 14 hours a day hammering away just educating yourself on all the options of income out there, and researching if it is legit, but everyday will get easier, smoother. One last piece of advise: Take notes, write down all the websites, links, and research you have compiled, these guys are sneaky, changing email addresses, different domain subtitles, perplexing back offers and probably more since writing this. Scams are a form of internet crimes, and fraudulent offers claiming to make easy money from home is just as much as a scam as the telecommunication companies that call your home phone.