Avoiding Work at Home Employment Fraud

There are several opportunities these days to work from home and still make a decent income, sufficient to live on. However, as many opportunities exist, there are more scams than the actual opportunities. Looking for the right opportunity has become like sieving the dirt out from a handful of flour. How does one identify a scam from a real opportunity?There are handful of websites on the Internet which actually list work at home jobs. Several websites might advertise saying that you can make a five figure or six figure salaries sitting at home. Straight away trash those websites because they are all scams. Nobody can make that kind of income, and the income they are talking about is all dependent on the prospect of finding more customers like you.Some websites charge you money for a book or a CD that gives you a lot of ideas about how to make money. These are another type of scams and all the books have are ideas on what all you can do to earn money. No book has the leads or the names of companies that hire people to work from home. So, do not pay for these worthless books and CDs and get cheated.Any person who has a genuine job offer will not ask you for money. They will give you work and pay you on completion of the work. There are some websites which post needs for article writing, data entry and even customer or email support. Look for such job offers and start your home based career instead of opting to get rich through quick ideas, which are nothing but scams.