Legitimate work at home jobs can easily be found, if you know where to look. However, it is unfortunately true that there are also many work at home scams and dubious schemes which should be avoided at all costs. But how do you know which is which?

Common sense will usually tell you. Legitimate work at home jobs generally pay a fair rate for a fair day’s business. If you find that you are being offered exceptionally high rates for fairly ordinary jobs, the alarm bells should start ringing. Most scams are concentrated on unskilled projects, such as typing ads or stuffing envelopes. This is because the con artists can reach the largest audience this way - everyone wants easy money. But if the business is so easy to do, and there are millions of people willing to do it, why would anyone pay you high rates?

Some jobs, however, are harder to judge. For example admin projects or medical transcription jobs may well be genuine. On the other hand, these are still targets for various scams. So to find scam-free jobs, you need to take care. Read the advert for the job carefully. If it sounds like an advert, rather than a job posting, take care. Someone who is genuinely looking to employ people will not need to ’sell’ the job. Here are some of the most common home business scams:

• answering email
• typing ads
• envelope stuffing
• assembling toys
• mailing orders

However, you should not be discouraged. There are plenty of perfectly sound jobs which can be done from your own home. You just need to take a little extra care in finding and selecting them. At the end of the day, it all boils down to using your grey matter. If a job sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Use sites like Freelance Work Exchange to find jobs that are genuine, and which can earn you a fair and reasonable income.

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