Work From Home Making $500 a day for 30 minutes of Data Entry …or NOT

In the current job climate many people are more vulnerable than usual to work at home scams.  I work from home, but not for a multi-level company promising the moon for very little work.

I’m a consultant and my clients are legitimate companies that hire me for concrete services like copywriting, designing and implementing marketing strategies and improving brand stature, not to recruit others into “the business” or promise that if I buy their $100 – $3,000 program I’ll make $500 a day doing data entry work.

The bottom line is that you never have to pay to start working a legitimate job. When your gut clenches as you read these “opportunity” sales pitches there’s a reason.  Mother nature and your gut do not lie, but your mind can be fooled.

Can you make money with some of these programs?  Maybe.  Will you achieve even half the level of income promised without four times the work promised and some luck?  Doubtful.

If you search “work at home” on You Tube you’ll find 144,000 videos trying to recruit you into some companies “easy” system and even showing a picture of a check reflecting “legitimate income.”

Just pass on by.  Especially if you hear the words, “you only need to get 2 who get 2 who get 2 and then you’ll be rolling in residual income.”  …unless you want a full time job as a recruiter.

There are legitimate work from home businesses, but most of what you’ll find is a scam.  For deeper details on this visit the Crimes of Persuasion: Schemes, Scams and Frauds site.  Here’s their mission statement:

To inform the public, along with law enforcement personnel, justice officials and victim support groups on the workings and scope of telemarketing and investment fraud so that efforts can effectively be taken to minimize the impact on its victims and ensure that adequate penalties are in place to deter the perpetrators.

It only takes a few success stories to make anything look attractive and make you think, “Hey, I could do that too.”

It’s great marketing, but lacks integrity because they tell you what you “can” do without acknowledging that very few succeed.  If you pay attention you’ll notice the detail in never using the word “will” instead of “can” because then they can be sued for promising results that rarely come to be.

What you don’t see is the hundreds or thousands of road kill past suckers that tried the program and failed.  Twenty successes on an infomercial looks like a lot until you realize that it’s 20 out of 10,000 and the other 9,980 people who tried it couldn’t make it work.

Use common sense, keep your greed (and wallet) in check and realize that success for most people comes from steady work they enjoy and spending less money than they earn.

Get rich quick is a marketing scam, especially when it’s dressed up and labeled as a “business” or “business opportunity.”  Don’t buy it.