Fraudulent Work-at-Home & Business Opportunities

The privacy of your mobile phone or landline phone cannot be enforced flawlessly in this age of communication. Most people look for ways of augmenting their incomes and can be easily convinced by various work-at-home & business opportunities offered over the phone. It is best to bide your time before making commitments. Checking out the organizations that provide you the opportunity of enhancing your income is necessary as you may find yourself being cheated by the swindlers who use the information provided by you to achieve their own objectives.

Fraudulent Practices

You may well receive calls from pay phones or over VOIP offering you easy money in exchange for doing simple jobs like stuffing envelopes or medical billing. A small amount is often requested by the swindlers in exchange for providing you with the know-how. It is better to conduct a thorough search into the origins of the company before succumbing to the lure of making an easy buck.  The details given over the phone may sound great as they will often provide you with genuine locations, products and earning capabilities in expert sales jargon hoping to convince you to part with your hard earned money. If you do choose to take the so called opportunity of being your own boss and working from home you may soon find that you are spending more money instead of earning any.

Recognizing False Opportunities

The first point that will grab your attention is the ideal situation for work. Most of the scams try to lure you with inordinately lesser hours of work coupled with high earning capabilities. Such scenarios are non existent in the real world and falling for this age old trick might set you back by quite a hefty amount.

The amount of earnings is almost always provided by the fraudulent companies. The law requires the company to reveal the exact number as well as the percentage of purchasers who had actually benefited by earning the amount. Disclosing only half of the information is a sign of breach of the law.

The no risk all profit tag is an oft repeated line used by fraud companies intent on deceiving the general public. Real business opportunities almost always involve a risk in some form or the other.

The ludicrously simple and easy way of earning a profit that too from day one is a tell tale sign in itself. Setting up a business often requires a lot of hard work and no business can generate profits from the very first day itself.

Precautions

It is possible to take adequate precautions in order to avoid being duped by reporting such instances of deception to the FTC. Information on the ways to spot and stop fraudulent businesses from cheating individuals can be obtained by contacting 1-877-382-4357 or 1-877-FTC-HELP. The FTC also maintains the Consumer Sentinel which contains a regularly updated list of telemarketing as well as other complaints of fraudulent business practices. This data is available online to the various law enforcement agencies all across the United States of America as well as abroad. More information about the ways and means of staying abreast of the fraudulent companies can be obtained by logging in to http://www.ftc.gov/.