Work at Home Opportunity: Is it legal?
July 12th, 2009 | by admin |hippygirlindiana asked:
I have recently received information about a work at home opportunity. It’s one of those scams where you post ads for “Home Typist” or the like and charge an upfront fee for “training materials”. The materials received are simply a packet about how to post ads and get people to pay you for the same information you received.
Obviously, this is a scheme and not a real job opportunity, but is it legal to post ads and receive money for the information?
LOUISE
6 Responses to “Work at Home Opportunity: Is it legal?”
By Larry P on Jul 14, 2009 | Reply
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By under_mckilt on Jul 15, 2009 | Reply
This is similar to a pyramid scheme and is illegal. A pyramid scheme is where money gets paid within the organization, but there is no end-user product. Many multi-level marketing companies are accused of being pyramids, but most of them are actually selling a product or service to the general public, make them legit. Anybody that requires you to buy something from them should be avoided completely.
By radzuan on Jul 16, 2009 | Reply
stop looking for any type of work at home such home typist, data entry, stuffing envelope, read email or do survey. you might find some program to earn money but the time you spend on it i think is not worthwhile. the best way of making money online make a website and sell real product to people or generate money from advertising.
By VicSEO on Jul 19, 2009 | Reply
Unfortunately, many “home typist’ schemes are promoted via the Internet and regular mail. And these posted schemes are allowed since there is not government agency looking into the legitimacy of these offerings. The schemers usually ask for an advance from you for a set-up kit or some sort of good-faith gesture on your part in order to receive future job assignments. Nevertheless, here’s an alternative home-based opportunity which is outlined below.
If you have a functioning telephone with call forwarding features, you can set up a small phone answering service which can provide the lunch break and appointment relief for small medical and legal practitioners. This is how it works: You have a contract with these practitioners to allow them to forward their switchboard calls to your home telephone. While the regular staff is on a lunch or regular afternoon break, you answer the phone and take down any appointments and relevant notes. You charge a fee based on .10th of an hour, i.e., up to 15 minutes is .25 hours, a half hour is 0.50 and 45 minutes is .75 and finally an hour is 1.00. The attractiveness of hiring your service is the clearness of your voice [hopefully without an accent] and the savings to regular staff members not having to stay around or arrange their breaks just to cover switchboard calls. And you may not want to limit this service to these practitioners and offer it to any number of restaurants [taking reservations]; private schools [which gives out information to prospective students], etc.
Good luck!
By Mary S on Jul 20, 2009 | Reply
Probably legal, but morally just plain wrong. Anyways if you go to and click on work from home you can find a long list of companies that work with work from home contractors, or even employ them.
By simran j on Jul 22, 2009 | Reply
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