Crimes Committed Online

As more and more home based businesses come online. You may as well get use to seeing headlines as follows:

“Mentoring scams is becoming harder to detect from the good one.” “Network Scam Artist keep CyberPolice on their toes.” “Network Marketing Warning, be on the look out for XYZ COUNTERFEITS.” “MLM Complaints on the rises.” Frustrated Network Marketers are left penniless.” “Dishonest Network Marketers pleads guilty with no excuse.” “Honest Networkers suffers because there too many are dishonest Lead Vendors. “Successful Network Marketers are becoming fewer and fewer.” “The Art of Scamming School ring broken up.” “Cyberspace Cops increasing in numbers.”

In order to avoid all Scam Artist and their scams, one need to think like one. Now, how do a Scam Artist think? Today there are some who disguises themselves as helping you avoid scams, only to eventually lure you into one. For example: A blogger may begin talking about how to avoid work at home scams. He tells you how he is going to give you a quick rundown of how to avoid a work at home scam, so you do not lose money and time to these scam artists. Then after telling you about 1. “Stuffing envelopes scam.” Which most people should know about by now. 2. “Paid survey scam.” Which are for the most part (not all) spammers. (Then he adds a good advice.) “If you’re looking to make money online using paid surveys, you should look for companies that are free to join.”

Now we are at the point where he appears to want to help you make a lot of money, on the internet. He writes . . .

“If you’re a complete beginner to making money on the Internet, come and grab a free DVD copy on how to make $3000 a month online at Scam Artist.Com.” Of course that is a not a real web site. But, wouldn’t it be nice, if there was a truth detector software? That is, one that could be downloaded on your computer to automatically detect a scam of this type on web. Think about, how many people would be home right now, if it was just that easy to make $3000 a month from home?

Understand this. It is said, that 98.3% Make Money Sites Are Scams. Therefore the first rule still stands. If it sounds to good to be true? You got it. . . . “RIGHT!!!”

How do you know that the business opportunity you are in right now is not a scam or scheme? Are you required to pay a lot of money upfront and the person who is trying to get you into his or her business is not successful themselves? Tell me. If they are not successful at it, how is it that they are going to help you become successful at it?

Not only that. But they cannot explain the business opportunity to you themselves. They are vague in the description of their business opportunity and they are only allow to say so much. These are just a few of the signs that possibly point to a scam or scheme.

Again. A popular way to get taken by a scam work at home company, is when they ask a person to pay them money. Now you are probably confused. Right!

Listen, the main rule about paying money is that, if the job were not a work at home opportunity, would it be reasonable to pay money up front to work with this company (like Wal*Mart)?

If it is a job where the person is required to keep an inventory of products it is then stated as being reasonable to pay something upfront for the inventory. However, if the payment is for administrative fees that, is a red flag.

A work at home job is like any other job. Nobody would pay a company to process their employment papers, so it is unreasonable, for a work at home company to request payment for this purpose.

What usually happens when a company is running a scam by asking for money up front, is that the hopeful work at home employee, loses their money, and gets no real job in return. Many scam companies try to use the trick that they will refund the money, after a person has worked for them for such and such a time period. Once a person pays the money and begins working for the company they learn then, that there really is no refund. In these cases the work at home employee, usually also finds out that the job duties are completely different, from what they were originally told. The whole concept is that the scam company makes their main income off potential work at home employees, “not” through a real business.

Almost any good reference on working at home will mention not to ever pay money for a work at home job. It may seem like common sense, but can be confusing for someone who is new to the work at home industry. Many of these scams seem real and also come across as a way to make big money fast. This type of money scam is the biggest of all work at home scams. These are Scam Artist in Business Suits.

The truth of the matter is, that before anyone decides to invest in any business opportunity online he or she should investigate.

But more importantly one should become educated on how to effectively operate any online business. For more information go to: Wealth Affiliate University

For information about Scams go to: The Government and Website Scammers