Work-At-Home Scheme

This scheme (like many other Internet scams) offers easy way of earning money by doing very little.

Typically aimed at housewives, unemployed, handicapped persons, the elderly, and low income earners - these fraudulent schemes promise a high-income position requiring little experience and no investment. The catch in most of these schemes is that - you must purchase something before you begin work. The upfront money to be paid in advance may range from USD 35 to few thousands !

Big disappointment awaits those who are gullible enough to have paid for the schemes. Some work-at-home schemes promote ideas for setting up home businesses, such as selling specialty products for which little or no market exists. Participants are not informed at the outset that they will be required to sell these items themselves without any outside help. Sometimes these schemes require you to produce the items yourself with the promoter's promise to buy back the items providing the workmanship meets their 'high standards.' Con artists in the guise of promoters invariably reject the finished products and return them to you to sell on your own.

A Big No ! There are certainly many good and legitimate schemes to work from home.

Internet fraudsters try their best to imitate genuine e-businesses. Just as market for fake diamonds can not exist unless there are real diamond sellers in market - there are many legitimate earning opportunities in the Internet besides the fakes.

For example, companies are outsourcing jobs like data entry, medical transcription, editing etc., which can be done from home.

However, none of these legitimate schemes offers easy money or promises thousands of dollars for doing very little. On the contrary, many of these outsourced-works require special skill.