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Home Business - Protect Yourself Against Scams
Sept 05, 2008

So you found a home business, but you want to know if it is a legitimate and honest before you jump in. That sure makes sense to me. Many people think about starting their own home business, but are apprehensive because they are afraid of being scammed. Protect yourself by researching the opportunity and company, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is a scam.

Are you aware of the fact, that there are many agencies you can use to check if a company is legitimate? Of course, you also have NewsGroups on the Internet to check on various home businesses and work at home programs and companies. Of course, the main issue here is to protect yourself. I hope the following information will be of some help.

* National Fraud Information Center: http://www.fraud.org

* Better Business Bureau: “http://bbb.org — There is a link to locate the BBB in your area. You will also find information on work at home opportunities and scams.

* The US Postal Service: http://www.usps.com/postal inspectors — The USPS has several pages that include, work at home scams, multi-level-marketing schemes and how to file a mail fraud complaint.

* Scam Busters: http://www.scmambusters.com
* WorldWide Scam: http://www.worldwidescam.com

* The Federal Trade Commission: http://www.ftc.gov

* The National Consumer League (National Fraud Information Center: http://nclnet.org

NewsGroups

* Google Groups: http://nclnet.org

* Yahoo Groups: http://www.groups.yahoo.com

You have all these agencies and groups in your corner. It would be very foolish if you did not take advantage of their services and information.

If you have already been scammed, you can report the company to the following agencies and/or perhaps they can help you get a refund,

1.) The National Fraud Information Center - 1-800-876-7060 or http://www.groups.yahoo.com

2.) The Attorney General in your state

3.) The Better Business Bureau - http://www.groups.yahoo.com

4.) The Internet Fraud Complaint Center - http://www.ifccfbi.gov

5.) The Federal Trade Commission - 1-800-876-7060 or http://www.ifccfbi.gov

Please take the time to protect yourself. It’s not very difficult and later on down the road you’ll be glad you did. Oh, and by the way, Good Luck with your new Home Business!

Janet Whalen
skype - janetwhalen
jwhalen92347@yahoo.com
It’s Good Business

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Hello again, It’s Jim Gras, back again with your Retire Today Online weekly home business newsletter!

I sure hope everything is going great for you today!

I’d like to tell you little about: How you can avoid home business scams.

If you’re thinking of working from home you have to realize that at least 99% of the offers out there are scams. Now really if is so easy to pay a few dollars and make thousands, wouldn’t everyone be doing it by now? Here are the biggest scams out there, how to recognize them, and how to avoid them.

First where did you see the "Big Money" work from home offer? If you received it in your email, saw a poster tacked to a bulletin board or one of those little signs on the side of the road then I can almost guarantee you that it’s not a legitimate offer. If you saw an ad in a newspaper, a job magazine or on a job website, then it’s more likely to be legitimate but not always. Remember always check out any offer, and assume it’s a scam until you have proof it’s not.

Envelope Stuffing is one of the most established work from home scams. The way it works is once you pay your money and sign up to work from home, you are sent a set of envelopes and ads just like the one you responded to. Then you stuff your envelopes and pay to send them out. You could make some money if someone responds to your ad but the chances are slim. Don’t waste your money on this one.

Home assemblers wanted. Charging for supplies is hard to pin down to any one scam it’s the way almost all work at home scams work. First you will be asked invest in the materials needed to do the work and then you will be sent very cheap materials that aren’t worth anything like what you paid for them. Once the product is assembled you’ll find that there’s no one who will buy it.

Quick tip: If anyone asks for money up front run away fast. A real company should be willing to deduct any ‘fees’ from your first paycheck. If they won’t do that for you, then that’s because they don’t ever plan to pay you.

A variation on the scam common with crafts is that you might be asked to work at home making clothes, ornaments or toys. Everything seems legitimate you’ve got the materials without paying out any money, and you’re doing the work. Unfortunately for you, when you send the work back, the company will tell you that it didn’t meet their ‘quality standards’, and will refuse to pay you. Never do craft work from home unless you’re selling the items yourself.

Now let’s discuss home typing and medical billing scams. There are lots of work from home scams that will lead you to believe that they have more work than they can handle so they need people to work from home. What will happen? You will be told that you would be typing documents, or entering medical bills into a computer. These scams have one thing in common. They say all you need is your computer and then all you have to do is buy their special software to do the job.

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 a sneaky way to sell you their software.

I hope this helps you see running a home business that involves you working for one company is a bad idea. You don’t know whom you’re dealing with. Remember even with entirely legal work at home offers that does pay you for your work, you still won’t make near as much money as you can with your very own home business.

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