Are work-at-home ads legit?

I repeatedly read to beware of them. They generally require some kind of investment.

You should never have to pay to apply for a job, so any of them that ask for money are bogus. Most of the other ones are, too, but be especially wary of any “opportunity” you have to pay for.

I’ll say about 80% are pretty bad. Most are pyramid scams. I did one back in high school and it turned out to be a legit company. I was just under 16 so they couldn’t hire me for more than a certain amount of hours a day, but they let me work at home mailing stuff off to earn a full paycheck. I only had to pay for a uniform, but they didn’t say it was for a uniform until my 5th day. They said it a “processing fee” at first. I ended up making around $745 a paycheck for just mailing off mail and packages to different businesses around the country. But as I said, most are corrupt. After high school I signed up for “training” and this special “training” landed me at a telemarketing job. I paid to go answer phones, boo!

Why would you pay for a job? It’s like those ads that say “has your credit card number been stolen” and have a box for you to check it.

There are a few that are totally legitimate but they’re hard to find.

As already stated, ANY company wanting money upfront is DEFINITELY not on the up and up.

Consign them to the spam folder immediately.

Some of them are legit, but the majority are a scam of some kind or another. There are some companies that outsource assembly work to people in their own homes, and while the pay is low they do actually pay and don’t require you to invest anything.

The way to look at it is this: with people out there desperate to work, why would anyone need to go out of their way to advertise their ‘great’ work at home opportunity. They are advertising because they have an interest in finding people to scam. I my self have a work from home opportunity at the moment, I basically need people to write things for me, and I pay a semi-decent (minimum wage) pay on an hourly rate, and you know what? I did not have to print a single leaflet to get people lining up to write for me.

If they are advertising the position, charge to do the position, require you to cold call or go door to door, or just want to share with you how they earned $XX,XXX in a month because they are just such nice people, then chances are it is a scam.

I actually looked this up yesterday and went to the BBB – Better Business Bureau & to date that do not recognize ANY at-home ads as being legitimate nor have they accredited/backed any company offering an at home job via the internet/mail-ins.

You should look into your states laws on this & contact the BBB before getting involved in this on their wedbite they even state that ‘any business asking for any type of fee for emploeyment is illegal & most likely a scam,” that fee also includes ‘learning kits’ and ‘supplies/materials.’