Work At Home Scams

Last night as I was watching TV when one of those 'Make Money At Home' commercials came on.  You know the ones, just log onto their website for details and start making money today!  The commercial lists the web site and then has person after person exclaiming at how much money they make ... one makes $2500 a month, just in their spare time!  While others have made it their full time profession and are millionaires.

Every time I see one of these commercials they just make me laugh and I wonder at what gullible souls are unfortunate enough to fall for these scams?  I mean, anyone with a clue can figure out that these things are a total scam.  

Have you ever noticed they never tell you UPFRONT what you will be doing?  Of course not, if they did they would get even fewer people.  Instead the commercials just say how simple and easy it is to make money at home, some even claim that your computer will do most of the work or, in fact, that you don't have to do anything!  Yes, that's right, don't do anything and just collect money ... go to our web site today and begin earning money today!  HA HA HA!

The other part of these commercials that are so laughable is the testimonals of the actors real people that make these wonderful claims at how much money they have made.  How believable are these claims?  Well, so believable I am sure everyone knows of someone that is earning their income this way, right?  Yeah, right!  You see, if anyone, FOR REAL, made any money doing any of these "work at home" deals I would think someone, somewhere knows of at least ONE other person that is doing so ... but of course not one actual or real person can be found on the planet that is earning money through one of these scams ... oh, and if someone does approach you and say "Hey, I am one of those persons earning money at home..." their next line will be "...and let me tell you how ... all you need to do is buy this and get others to do the same..."  you see, they have fallen for the scam themselves.

Of course there are different "Work At Home" scams then the age old pyramid scheme that I described above, but that is the most prominent one out there ... some more recent ones I have heard of is "Learn To Use eBay to Make Money".  Which will essentially tell you to buy low and sell high ... and you need to pay someone to show/tell you how to do that?  

Its tough to feel sorry for the folks that fall into these traps ... they are of course lured into them with the thought of making a lot of money without doing a lot of work and that is their first flaw.  If you think being lazy or not doing anything is going to pay off in the end you are only destined to learn the hard way.