YES!  YOU can make big bucks working from the comfort of your own home or slum apartment.  How does making $500 a day doing data entry work from home sound?  No experience or skills are required other than the ability to send and receive e-mails and/or text on a cell-phone.

• This is the perfect work at home job for high school dropout single mothers on welfare with litters of three or more rug-rats under the age of five crawling under their feet.
• This is the perfect work from home job for widows and divorcees who have been “homemakers” for years, who are now fat, forty (or fifty, sixty, seventy...) and alone, and whose professional skills comprise chauffeuring children, supervising housekeepers, and shopping experience.
• This is the perfect work from home online job for twenty-something or thirty-something slackers whose parents are getting ready to throw them out of the house.
• This is the perfect job to make money, working online, for the crack-heads whose girl-friends or boy-friends can't or won't support them anymore...

Why take the bus to that crummy telemarketing or other McJob when you can roll out of bed at any old time and make big bucks just tapping away on a keyboard doing online data entry?

Ain't gonna happen.  Here's the reality.  Most “offers” for online data entry jobs are scams.  The perpetrators of the data entry at home scams prey on the desperate.  It's hard out there.  It's hard for people with education and skills.  Nowadays, as our so-called leaders lead us into further economic decline and overpopulated disaster, it's hard even for people with experience in addition to education or training.  So, it is really hard for those who have nothing going for themselves.

It seems to me that the less many people have going for themselves, the higher their opinions of themselves.  When many of these people, who were so “kewl” in high school, who just coasted through, get pushed into the real world, either shortly after graduation or by divorce or death many years later, it's panic time.

So they flounder around, looking for something to do.  They have a difficult time getting jobs, if they can get any at all.  So, in desperation they start looking for “work-at-home” gigs.  It used to be the “work from home stuffing envelopes” scams.  Now one of the biggies is “data entry at home”.

With most of these gigs, the numbers don't add up; they are scams.  In addition, the scammers want enrolling, sign-up, or materials fees, etc.  But since the targets of the scams are but barely literate, they also are innumerate.  Their grade school and high school arithmetic was so hard.  (Whine.)  Algebra?  Fuggedaboudit!  Perhaps they are smart enough to realize that maybe $500 a day is a tad high for grunt work.  But $100 a day, why not?  Well, $100 a day is, based on an 8-hour day, $12.50 an hour.

If an online data entry job is truly a legitimate work at home job that can really be done from home, that means it can be done anywhere.  Why should employers pay $10 or $12 an hour to someone in the U.S. to do data entry from home when they can get an Indian for $10 or less an hour?  That Indian they can get probably has some actual typing and spreadsheet skills, to boot.  (Asian Indian, not “native American”.)  If a data entry work from home job is legitimate, it makes little difference to an employer if his virtual worker is in Mumbai, India, or in Fargo, North Dakota.

Take it from me, a wise Caucasian man with the richness of my experiences, if you manage to make any money doing data entry from home, count yourself lucky.

I am NOT here offering you an opportunity or a job. I am NOT inviting you to join a MLM or Network Marketing “Business”. I am inviting you to take a look at developing an internet business similar to what I am doing right here on this very HubPage you are now reading. You will do what I am doing, more or less, with this very article you are reading. You will be writing for extra money, perhaps even writing for a living. You will write articles on a variety of subjects of your choosing. You will put them, and promotion for them, onto the internet, on HubPages and elsewhere. You will make money from Google, Amazon, and other Internet businesses. You will work your ass off. You will be frustrated and overwhelmed often. You will not make a whole lot of money in the beginning, but after awhile, depending on your ability to learn and implement what you learn, you may make a living, even substantial money beyond a living. But, there are no hourly or daily wage guarantees. There are no piecework rates On the other hand, you can learn for free, or you can take training.

The material you will discover by following the link just below will show you what you need to know about. You can sign up there to learn faster. Or, you can, with what you see there, perhaps map out your own learning path, and do it without paying anyone anything.

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This type of business isn't for everyone. If you are illiterate or innumerate or only minimally computer functional, you will have a tough row to hoe. You will first have to take some remedial courses in writing in standard English, in arithmetic, and computer literacy beyond e-mail. You can find courses at community college, online, or even in (gasp) books! If you don't have a job, you will probably have to get one out in the world until you are functional in those areas, even before starting on a business such as this. Maybe you could luck into a job where you actually have to show up at an office for a company that offers data entry services. I doubt trying to hustle up data entry from home jobs is going to work very well for you, but if you are desperate, you've got to do something. Be careful. Analyze, and develop your “hype-meter”. Investigate.

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Feel free to add your experiences or what you think are likely scams that you have come across, to the Comments section below.