Internet Job Scams

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Tips to Avoid Job Scam on the Internet

There are several types of internet job scams that one comes across on the net. The following are some tips to avoid such job scams:

1. Work at Home Scams: These scams are also known as work from home, earn at home, earn from home, etc., scams. What ever may be the name, their modus operandi is the same. They lure you with free membership and promise you that money starts rolling in the next moment. They encourage you higher commission for increased down line memberships. The basic idea is to have huge captive membership and hire it for a price to internet marketers. Generally, the members are required to put the same ads with which they were lured.

Tip: Even though entries to such scams are free, you will end up doing the same ad posting for the same scam jobs without ever seeing any money for your effort. So, before joining any schemes or programs, try to find out various job forums and message boards to get information on such work at home job scams.

2. Data Entry Scams: These are also work at home type scam jobs. But the difference is that you will have to pay some membership fee to get their schemes or programs. These are the worst types of scams and there are many hundreds of sites that offer instant money for every ad posted (data entry). They also offer form filling jobs which, they claim, fetch instant money, sometimes as much as $100 for each ad posted! You can easily see through their schemes.

Tip: Never ever pay for any data entry job. A genuine data entry opening never demands any upfront payment.

3. Get Rich Schemes: There is a novelty to such schemes. They charge heftily for membership because they portray their scheme as once in a life time investment. They claim that you are only required to visit their site for a few minutes every day, make some clicks for re-setting advertising campaign and viola, you will get your down lines in a jiffy. Once money starts pouring in, you can also take a vacation in Caribbean sipping choicest drinks in your favorite yacht.

Tip: Never fall for such work at home scams. You cannot earn easy money like that. You cannot own your own yacht in such a short span of time, unless lady luck, in the form of huge lottery, smiles on you!

4. Medical Coding and Billing Scam Jobs: Majority of such jobs have proved to be scams. Not only do they charge heavily for entry, they will not pay you for your work.

Tip: Trust only those coding and billing job sites whose physical address can be verified and response is received.

5. Nigerian Job Scams: They originate from Nigeria and have become quickly notorious. They offer jobs in oil companies in various countries. They seek your personal social security details, bank details, etc.

Tip: Do not pay any attention to such Nigerian job scams. Just ignore.

Thanks for the helpful reminders and warnings!!

I think that also some kind of regulatory scam is also protecting those scammers.

There is no way that sites like this: www.news11nyc.com using the domain name registered to: Domains by Proxy, Inc. DomainsByProxy.com 15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353 Scottsdale, Arizona 85260 United States, can just exist without being an easy target of some law-enforcement entity.

They are apparently a criminal org that is being protected either by an existing law or by means of total unregulation.