You have
seen the ads, “Typing jobs at home! Make money
FAST! No experience necessary. No selling.”
These ads are tempting, because they appeal to
someone who wants to work from home. While
there are a lot of legitimate work from home
jobs that involve typing, many of these
advertisements are misleading schemes. So where
can you find legitimate typing jobs?
First, it
is important to note why many of these
advertisements for typing jobs at home are
scams. Basically they tend to be “ad typist”
jobs where you type in ads on a variety of job
sites waiting for people to sign up for the
program. The companies you “work” for function
as an affiliate program in which you get paid if
people sign up for the program.
Often
people who do pay the fee to work for the
company end up posting ads everywhere only to
see little results. They are given no marketing
training, and they are often denied for a
refund. These companies usually post
“testimonials” of people who have made much more
money that you will ever see. Actually, you
will probably end up losing money in the massive
amount of hours you spend trying to post ads all
over the internet.
Another
scam is the promise of finding you a job with a
legitimate company. Yet when you pay your fee
for typing jobs at home, you will only receive a
list of companies that “may” be hiring home
typists. You end up spending time calling and
following up with companies that probably do not
need your services. Again, you lose out on
money and time.
However,
for all the scams out there, you can still find
legitimate
typing jobs at home. Most of the
legitimate jobs are not ad typing, but more
administrative or data entry jobs. There are
job sites that specialize in postings for these
legitimate jobs, and you will need to have some
experience to qualify for the jobs. Job boards
like WAHM.com, E-lance, and MediaBistro.com all
have legitimate jobs that the websites have
investigated to make sure they are legitimate.
They also have customer service procedures if
you find a scam on their sites.
So how do
you tell the difference between a legitimate
company and a scam? First, you should not have
to pay high fees to find typing jobs at home
(the exception is E-lance, which requires a
small fee to find jobs). Some of these scams
require upwards of $60 for “typing jobs at
home.”
Also, you
need to protect yourself by doing research into
any company offering
typing jobs at home. Look
at the Better Business Bureau and on the
internet to find out if there are any complaints
about the company. Use your instinct. If you
feel like you might be scammed, you should
probably avoid the offer completely.
Finally,
know how to report these companies. Many of
these typing jobs at home scams are not legal,
and you an report them to the proper
authorities. Job boards like Craigslist.org
have strict rules about these scams, and you
need to report them to the webmaster and to the
authorities like the FTC. The more people
report a company, the easier it will be for the
FTC to shut scams down and the easier it will be
for people to find legitimate typing jobs at
home.
Charles
Fuchs is an established Six Figure Income earner
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