Business Opportunity and Work-At-Home Scams

As self-employment and working from home opportunities advance in the last 10 years, so do the schemes that promise a immediate riches and financial freedom quickly!

Unfortunately, villains are behind the fraudulent get rich quick scams that fool so many wanting to believe the schemes to be true.

Over the last 5 to 7 years, many aspiring entrepreneurs have embarked upon home based work at home business ventures in hopes to launch their small businesses.

Offenders target consumers seeking information to start-up or purchase a lucrative business opportunity or even franchise.

Business Opportunity and Work-At-Home Scams have earned swindlers millions of dollars.

Fraudulent promoters develop business opportunity scams and work-at-home illegal components for consumers to invest their own funds in start-up enterprises that are bogus.

Deceptive promoters many times will use the classifieds to place false work opportunity advertisements offering business start-ups, business-kits, and self-contracting jobs.

The FTC states the following, "Consumers who contact these advertisers then are sold "business plans" for enterprises such as operating vending machines, distributing products, or servicing pay phone and fax machines. They can supposedly capitalize and operate these businesses with minimal training to produce substantial earnings."

Victims of these scams and or unprofitable business plans can be devastating, not only in terms of the dollars they lose, but also in the time they invest in unprofitable enterprises.

Entrepreneurs interested in becoming involved and or purchasing a Franchise should be aware of  the Franchise Rule.

Franchisors are required to give investors a disclosure document at least 10 days prior to the purchase/sale of a franchise.

Civil penalties on franchisors who fail to comply with the Rule are penalized. The FTC has brought more than 125 cases against companies violating this Rule.

Quote fromFTC, "In case after case, the FTC alleged that defendants made material misrepresentations, leading consumers into paying for business opportunities without telling them the true profitability and risk of the venture.

Computers and the Internet play a large part in scam operators.

Scams and fraudulent business opportunities easily run from website pages across cyberspace luring consumers into a variety of deceitful business shams.

Computers can provide a headquarters for falsified business opportunity promoters.
 

Job Placement Scams artists routinely place "Help Wanted" ads in national newspapers. These ads are indistinguishable from legitimate job search agencies and other employers.

Scam artists specialize in targeting college graduates and other professionals with false claims. These scam artists advise their clients they will be connected up with Fortune 500 companies, the federal government, and major commercial travel carriers, such as cruise ships and airlines. In fact, these schemes rarely provide jobs.

Naturally, scammers refuse to refund processing and finder's fees originally charged to the consumers.

Additionally, there is a serious breach of consumer personal financial information and the scammers can debit the consumers' bank accounts or charge their credit cards without authorization or providing any services.

 Fraud promoters know that consumers seeking work or supplemental income are eager to believe promises of lucrative business opportunities, work-at-home ventures, or guaranteed job placement. As a result, these schemes may never disappear completely from the fraud marketplace. Broad-based law enforcement and education efforts must continue to target this persistent type of fraud.

You can review the latest news and FTC resolutions at the Public Affairs Newsroom site.

Office of Public Affairs
202-326-2180
opa@ftc.gov

You can Contact FTC at:

Federal Trade Commission
600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20580
(202) 326-2222
www.ftc.gov

To file a Complaint:

FTC Complaint Assistant

To Be Continued…..

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Become an Affiliate for Legitimate Products

Internet affiliate programs are an excellent type of business to begin with low start up costs.

Affiliate Businesses market the goods and services of other company's products online.

Some Internet affiliate programs offer an excellent method to make money online as you do not have to develop, create or sell your own products.

There are a few sites that assist affiliates in selling products of other Internet products.

One of the more familiar and trusted sites is Clickbank.com.

Quote from ClickBank.com site;

"ClickBank is the online retail outlet for 10,000 digital product vendors and their 100,000 active affiliates. We've paid our clients on time, every time, for 10 years. Over $1 billion thus far. Now with weekly payouts! "

That statement is pretty persuasive and represents a real world home based opportunity.

Basically you have the option to promote a choice of any of the 10,000 digital products of vendor at
Clickbank.com.

Being an affiliate of an established ecommerce site limits your exposure to scams and illegal vendors.

You can select the products that you want to promote.

ClickBank automatically handles the tracking, accounting, and payouts. ClickBank's reputation is one as a trusted third party where you always receive your commissions and balances owed to you.

Unlike other affiliate solutions, ClickBank.com handles both the sale and the payment of commissions and the only way to reject a commission is to approve a return of the order.

Setting up an account with ClickBank is not difficult.

You first must search the ClickBank.com Marketplace to choose the products you wish to promote.

You actually do no selling, you simply promote the products and ClickBank.com processes the purchase transactions.

You are protected and updated with real time sales statistics on your return of investment; and, you are can utilize ClickBank's campaign management tools.

There are a variety of ways in which you may promote affiliates' products.

You must comply with ClickBank's
Client Contract; however, you can determine how many products you will promote. ClickBank does not limit the number of products that affiliates can promote.

The way that ClickBank works is they purchase a product from a vendor at a wholesale price equal to 92.5% of the retail price. Additionally, there is a $1.00 stocking charge.

An affiliate and their 'directed sales' earns a commission percentage
that is subtracted from the net sale price.

Below is an example of the commission calculation if you are promoting a product that offers a 55% commission:

Please Note: The below example is a quote from Clickbank.com

Therefore, as the referring affiliate for this sale, you would earn $14.69.

The same as above applies if you promote recurring subscription products.

This is one of the best online legitimate opportunities and home based Internet businesses a person can start.

I hope this information will assist you in furthering your research and interest in ClickBank.

If I can be of assistance, please contact me via this blog and or registration to this blog.

To Be Continued…..

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Working as an Electronic Retail Auditor is a great way to earn extra income!

Starting in January of 2009 there is a need for auditors working with major electronics retails for nationwide locations for
a pay of $100+.

This is a wonderful opportunity for shoppers who enjoy acting as auditors.

The locations vary from highly to less populated areas; however, odds are pretty good your area qualifies and you can
participate.

Auditors are also offered the opportunity to schedule advance assignments for audits in future months. It is very possible you can be guaranteed assignments up to 6 months at a time.

The Requirements and Considerations for this opportunity are as follows:

- You must register and have an ID with GfK.

- Audits begin January 5, 2009 through January 15, 2009.

- Audits vary in size of the location.

- The approximate time for an average location is 10 to 15 hours and normally takes two days; but can vary due to location size.

- Audits are between the hours of 10am and 5pm on weekdays only.

- Auditors are required to interact with location managers and employees when necessary.

- Auditors must pass a-one-time drug test to qualify.

- Auditors must pass a-one-time background check to qualify.

- Auditors must attend a 45 minute phone training and briefing conversation.

- Auditors must be registered with
cybershoppersonline.com (http://www.cybershoppersonline.com).

Note: If you are registered with
cybershoppersonline.com, simply email

here (info@cybershoppersonline.com).

Provide the following information:

- Name
- Shopper ID
- Silver or Gold Certification number
- Brief description of experience or advise us that you have no prior
experience
- State and areas you can travel

If you are not yet signed up with GfK,
please visit

http://www.cybershoppersonline.com/, click on the
 “apply online” link and join us today.

Once you receive a shopper ID and password, please send us an email with the above information.

To Be Continued…..

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