do you consider all work from home sites scams?

[punkorange]

Scams all the way.

Really?

yeah, links in my sig, but I'm not trying to get referals or anything which is why I didn't mention it.

I think many of them are scams, or want to sell you something. I think there are some legitimate work-at-home jobs, but many are for processing insurance claims or stuffing envelopes.

I don't know about processing insurance claims, but stuffing envelopes usually loses you money if I'm correct, because what they pay you isn't really more than the cost you spend on postage, envelopes, etc.

 

[kenobi65]

In the same way that a random e-mail from someone you don't know, asking for your help in getting a large sum of money out of Nigeria, *might* be legitimate, I suppose there are work-from-home jobs that aren't scams.

As you note, the issue is that the overwhelming percentage of them *are*...and thus, how can you tell which ones aren't?

 

[buzzard]

spams

I'm not sure if you were kidding, or referencing how you get the offer, but this is very accurate.

A whole lot of those work at home opportunities are in the field of sending spam email. It's a profitable business that is most often done from home. It is also something I would sooner castrate myself than do since I have a morsel of self respect.

buzzard

 

[Zappo]

Scams, spams, and scums. The vanishingly small chance that one of them is genuine isn't worth the time to read all of them. My trash folder grows fat on them.

 

[WhimsyTheFae]

scrams

 

[mojo1701]

Scams, spams, and scums. The vanishingly small chance that one of them is genuine isn't worth the time to read all of them. My trash folder grows fat on them.

Trash folder hungry. Want Spam.

 

[Shemeska]

I remember Alladvantage.com and their 'We pay you to surf the internet' thing back in 1998-2000 or thereabouts. I fondly remember the $200 or so I earned off of them doing nothing but having their little advertisement bar on my desktop. Of course alladvantage had no real business plan, and then the internet advertisement boom went bellyup with the .com bubble bust of the late Clinton years and alladvantage died, spectacularly.

But I still made a tiny bit of cash out of it while the getting was good.

But other than that little memory of the 'good old based on rampant speculation' days, most all of the work at home things are scams.

 

[punkorange]

shameska, the pay to surf sites are still there, that's actually what I was talking about when I said I was currently earning, so far I'm at a total of over $800 profit.

 

[Zappo]

Hey, I remember alladvantage too! That one wasn't a scam (it was just not enough money IMO) - but they didn't contact me by email. My policy of feeding all mass-sent email to the ever-hungry trash can regardless of content has not failed me once up to now.

 

[punkorange]

I completely agree, 12daily was word of mouth, not email, if it goes into my email, and it looks like a "Get Rich Today" or an even "Tell your boss you quit and be a millionare in 5 years" it's in the trash.