There are loads of email offers doing the rounds these days offering a whole variety of working from home systems. From people who are having trouble exporting art, because the sellers will just sell to people in the same country to companies short of mystery shoppers and needing more agents.
These all have several things in common with each other, namely:
- they arrive in the form of unsolicited emails, as a rule with the recipient addresses saying ‘undisclosed-recipients’ because they have been bulk sent to loads of email addresses using the BCc field
- they are as a rule in poorly written English
- there is a simple scheme, with promises of fabulous rewards for little outlay or work
And, of course, the other attribute that these will all have in common is that in one way or another they are scams. Either scams to con you out of your money or scams to get you involved in illegal money laundering schemes where you are just the middle man that takes the fall when the police catch up with the scheme.
How can you spot a scam?
So, how do you spot them. Well if anyone offers you simple work for a good reward, typically without you approaching them, then the old saying that if it seems to good to be true it perhaps is is the right thing to be thinking. No-one genuinely will contact you with the offers of an simple job and a lot of money.
Why not? Well if it is genuine, there are stacks of quality work from home sites where such offers might be advertised and there are hordes of people watching these directories waiting for these genuine offers to be made. There is no need for spam emails.
How do these scams work?
But, how do they work? Without going into details and giving the wrong people tips, the scams around money laundering involve you passing money from one person to another. Mystery shoppers and companies struggling to export items will get you to buy items and then pass them on to another contact. Once they have your confidence the odds get higher and then suddenly your payments dry up leaving you very out of pocket.
These are only two of the possibly alternatives for the too good to be true working from home opportunities that you may see or receive via spam emails. But, I have to say, that any spam home working email is perhaps going to be several sort of scam.
Are there any genuine simple work at home opportunities?
So are there any genuine simple to do work from home opportunities? Probably, but they all involve you setting up the work yourself, finding the people that are going to be paying you and you selecting your own suppliers that you will have to pay. As for instance, blogging or affiliate selling.
But if someone has made you an offer of easy work and amazing pay for a working from home opportunity, it is nearly certain that it is too good to be true and you should steer clear.
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