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Nowadays, work at home typing jobs are increasingly common. You may come across advertisements announcing how easy it is and how fast making money can be with a work at home typing job. And with all these advertisements regularly promoting the advantages from work at home typing jobs, it is just all too easy to fall for the promises they make. Indeed, doesn’t earning money by doing something as easy as typing from your own home sound too good to be true?
A common concern with work at home typing jobs, however, is that most of what you may find in the classifieds are scams. As a matter of fact, only a small percentage actually provide anything that’s worth your time and can deliver on their promises.
Hundreds of work at home typing job ads profess that you can earn up to $500 or more per week by simply typing advertisements and a variety of other documents for customers of these companies. Basically, the ad tells you that you will receive information and a starter pack if you complete their form and mail it in along with the registration fee.
After you complete these steps and finish setting yourself up (which also consists of securing a computer or a typewriter), then you will be sent work assignments. Payment for your work at home typing assignments will be delivered to you as soon as you complete your work. The pace is really yours to decide and you don’t even have to be a speedy typist. At the very least, that is what the ads claim. They have a knack for making things sound very easy, indeed.
However, therein lies the fraudulent scheme. The problem with this starter pack that you receive in exchange for the money that you send is they may contain little more than a very long list of companies that are ‘possibly’ looking for a work at home typist. The list doesn’t necessarily ensure that you’ll find a job. The list is, in fact, nothing more than a list. You are advised to call each of the companies to know if they are recruiting and if they aren’t, then you’re out of luck. You’d be lucky to find at least five companies that are willing to take you on for a work at home typing job and even then, the money that they offer is certainly nowhere close to the $65 registration fee. To make matters worse, most of these companies are probably to be listed in a business directory so the money spent on the registration fee was an utter waste, a sham, a complete scam.
With that being said, you would then be better off to begin your own work at home typing business. You would require the same basic equipment — a computer with Internet access and a printer.
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