There are numerous email offers doing the rounds these days offering a whole variety of work at home systems. From people who are having trouble exporting art, because the sellers will only sell to people in the same country to companies short of mystery shoppers and needing more agents.
These all have a few things in common with each other, namely:
- they arrive in the form of unsolicited emails, as a rule with the recipient addresses saying ‘undisclosed-recipients’ because they have been bulk sent to many email addresses using the BCc field
- they are frequently in poorly written English
- there is a simple scheme, with promises of extraordinary rewards for little outlay or work
And, of course, the other attribute that these will all have in common is that in one way or another they are scams. Either scams to con you out of your cash or scams to get you involved in illegal money laundering schemes where you are only the middle man that takes the fall when the police catch up with the scheme.
How could you spot a scam?
So, how do you spot them. Well if anyone offers you simple work for a good reward, usually without you approaching them, then the old saying that if it seems to good to be true it probably is is the right thing to be thinking. No-one genuinely will contact you with the offers of an straightforward job and a load of cash.
Why not? Well if it is genuine, there are a load of quality working from home directories where such offers might be advertised and there are hordes of people watching these sites waiting for these genuine offers to be made. There is no need for spam emails.
How do these scams work?
But, how do they work? Without going into details and giving the wrong people ideas, the scams about cash laundering involve you passing money from one person to another. Mystery shoppers and companies struggling to export items will get you to buy items and then pass them on to another contact. Once they have your confidence the odds get higher and then suddenly your payments dry up leaving you very out of pocket.
These are just two of the maybe alternatives for the too good to be true home working opportunities that you may see or receive via spam emails. But, I have to say, that any spam home working email is possibly going to be some sort of scam.
Are there any genuine straightforward working from home opportunities?
So are there any genuine easy to do work from home opportunities? Perhaps, but they all involve you setting up the work yourself, finding the people that are going to be paying you and you selecting your own suppliers that you will have to pay. For example, blogging or affiliate selling.
But if someone has made you an offer of simple work and wonderful pay for a work from home opportunity, it is almost certain that it is too good to be true and you should steer clear.
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