Work At Home Job Scams: Look For The Red Flags

There are many different ways to figure out if a work at home job lead is a scam or not. Many of the tell tale signs come from the ad alone. For instance:

- You can make $300 in just two hours! No experience necessary.

- Part-time customer service, data entry job. Available for 2-3 hours per day. $30/hr. Minimum typing speed 25 wpm.

- Administrative Assistant, work part-time. Set your own schedule, earn from $15.32 – $19.22/hr.

You can see the scam pattern here because common sense says that’s too good to be true and it is.

Besides the obvious, I’ve come across a lot of legitimate sounding job leads. The rate per hour is decent, the required amount of hours expected is reasonable and the ad itself just sounds right. But it’s far from being reputable.

A blind ad is when the employer doesn’t mention the company name or any of its details. The email address where you apply is from the job posting board. So that makes it fairly difficult to do your research. Remember, once you send out your resume with your personal information, there’s no turning back. In this case, your name and email address is sufficient.

If you receive an email response be certain it is a legitimate job offer before you sign off on any documents or provide sensitive details. By now you should know the name of the company, the recruiter’s name and more of the job requirements. Common sense and intuition should always be your guide.

This is where your research may end because there’s just something not right in the job description or the recruiter’s name happens to be Casper Ghost and the CEO’s name is…Belcher Wack Wack. Okay, Belcher Wack Wack is way extreme and exaggerated, but this is what scammers come up with for names.

Location is a huge part too. Overseas locations are really iffy and I wouldn’t put a lot of trust in it.

Take your time to thoroughly research the company and its people. It will always pay off.

~Sophia