In Part I of Work at Home (Home Business) Scams, there was a list of home business opportunity scams. In this article we will list some more types of home business and internet scams. There is an increasing number of scams on the internet involving sweepstakes, membership clubs for free money or merchandise.

Home Typing, Medical Billing, and More.

There are lots of work-from-home scams that involve persuading you that some industry has more work than it can handle, and so has to outsource to people working from home. For example, you might be told that you’d be typing legal documents, or entering medical bills into an electronic database. These scams have one thing in common: they all say that all you need is your computer and they all then go on to say that you need to buy some ’special software’.

This software might appear to be from a completely unrelated company, but don’t be fooled - the whole reason the ‘work-from-home’ ad was there to begin with was simply as cynical marketing for the software.

MLMs and Network Marketing

As you can see there are hundreds of MLM money-making schemes. Not all of them are bad but watch out because a lot these are scams. The most popular one is to pay a high amount of fee to join - Let’s say this maybe ok to some extent. After you join, you are encouraged to purchase their training material which includes books, tapes, CDs etc. In fact your sponsor (your referrer) and your upline is making money from the sale of these training materials. Also, you will be invited to meetings and seminars where you have to pay some entry fee to listen to a successful member.

Soon they will encourage you to sell the training material to your downline because that’s how you are going to make money! In fact there are people who make six figure incomes in this and it is because they sell a lot study material and also have a downline who sell a lot of the study material. While selling these study material, they mention that these expense are tax deductible. Think about this. Why should you pay to get training and listen to successful members in order to learn how to sell their products? Have you ever worked for a legitimate company as sales person where you have to pay them to train you to sell their products and services?

Chain Emails

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