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Work at Home Scams Can you really make $5,000 to $6,000 working at home, of course you can, but not with some of the rip-off scams you see advertised. You have probably seen the ads that say: earn extra money assembling toys, or other items at home in your spare time. Some say simply put magnets in craft items, or assemble CD cases, and then they give you a phone number. To make sure it is not a scam you need to ask questions like; who pays for the shipping and handling, will I be charged in advanced for the parts that I will assemble, and if I am going to be paid for each assembled item, who will determine if it meets a standard and how much I will get paid? A consumer explained to me that she was ripped off on a work at home scam by not knowing all these facts. First, she had to pay for all the doll parts that she was to assemble, and the shipping and handling of the parts. She was told she would make a profit of $5.00 per doll she assembled. (This should be a red flag, because Chinesešs factories would assemble them for less than 50-cents per doll.) When she shipped the finished dolls back to the company they said the dolls did not meet their standard and would pay her anything. They told her if she wanted the dolls back she would have to pay for shipping and handling in advance. By the way, the shipping and handling costs were extremely high. Bottom line, she bought doll parts that the scammers could not sell to anyone else, and then paid the shipping and handling both ways and got nothing for her labor. Another work at home job that sounds so good is to make $25 dollars an hour just typing up doctors notes on your computer. All you have to do is send them $12.95 and the scammers will send you information on how to get started and they will even send you a list of doctors you could work for in your neighborhood. This job is called a medical transcriber. Here is what they donšt tell you. The doctor is recording notes on observations on a patientšs health on a recorder and they are to be transcribed into computer files. You have to have a broad back ground in medical terms used by different medical specialists. A friend of mine, who was a medical transcriber, was a veteran Registered Nurse and because of the changing medical terms she spent hours in a medical dictionary just trying to find the spelling of the terms. Oh, the list of doctors who might want to hire you comes right out of your local phone book. Before you take on any work at home and pay money upfront for the information about the job, talk to someone who is actually doing the job right now. Remember the crooks and scammers are working at home on new scams to take your money. In fact one scammer will sell you a one page info-sheet on how to run a Work at Home Scam. He will charge you $10 to $12, and then send you information that says you can scam others and make hundreds of dollars just selling this information on how to run this very scam. For more Scam information go to the listing on the Scam Alert Page. Filed Oct. 08, 2007 |
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