Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Data Entry Scam


The opportunity to work at home is wonderful. You often get more elastic timings, which les you spend more time with your family or kids. Plus you would not have to drive anywhere for your work, for inform your boss that today you will get late, you will be totally independent. You just have to take care that you do not involve in any scams and make sure you search and select the legitimate opportunities. You can easily do this; all you have to do is just search reviews of the online jobs or program that you are going to select.



If you think that you will do some online data entry jobs which are easily doable, then you might be thinking wrong. It is not that easy that you might be thinking now. When your goal is a data entry work at home job, this is really not easy. If you go to find them you might come across some online jobs scams, you have to identify which is real and which is not.

Nowadays typing abilities are being familiar and common in all groups, so scams involving data entry are quite common. Let’s take a look at some of the things you may come across when you are looking for legitimate job.

First of all, you are likely to see sites that charge you for a name of site or a company which engage people to work online. There are few of them who do a very good, and even worth paying it but most of them do not.

You are also likely to see websites and companies that tell you about doing data entry at home, earning thousands of money every month and they also provideyou screen shots of the money they’ve earned, but in real when you purchase any service or product from them you will come to know that was all rip-off, these aren’t really work at home jobs. They’re really deceptive affiliate promotion, and ultimately they will earn money from your pocket... YOU WILL NOT.

My Advice is “NO” there aren’t any company or website waiting to hire you. And this is just a different version of the advertising redistribution scheme. Finally after you pay them membership fees they will are likely to tell you to post ads about the products on forums, classified ad sites and so forth. They may even recommend pay per click search engines where you have to pay for advertise their products.

While it is true that some people do earn money this way, most won’t. It is wrong and you’ll quickly get banned from a lot of sites. And incase if you will select the PPC i.e. pay per click alternative you will have the risk of losing more than you earn. Some people perform well with this PPC, but many others are not enough skilled and eventually they lose money. But in anyways it is a home business and not a job. I don’t recommend dealing with companies that slouch to you regarding what their opening is concerning. If you just can not believe them there, why to believe the information you purchase from them?

-Ashish Chandra, IIT Bombay