Work at home - a scam?

♦ A ARTICULE WRITTEN BY JAMES RADDICK.

How nice would it be to actually work from home, maybe a couple of hours a day and earn so much more money than you ever dreamed of? I think it would be great, but there are so many rip off merchants out there willing to prey on desperate people, so I decided to independently test the “top” work from home opportunities in Australia. The results were interesting to say the least.

I did this because I have been scammed before. I have bought countless moneymaking programmes from the Internet and found that they just don’t work. I got FED UP as I have personally lost hundreds of dollars trying to find that one in a hundred – one in a thousand maybe – that will actually earn me money and allow me to work from home.
I decided that I needed to be cunning in order to find out which of the so-called miracle business opportunities actually worked. Which ones could really earn me money? After all – getting scammed on the Internet? I’ve been there and done that and I was determined to expose the truth.

I had a problem: How could I find out if the opportunities were actually genuine without joining more and more companies wasting more and more money?
Then it occurred to me. These people are obviously out to try and get rich themselves and I needed to appeal to their motivation. I needed to work out a way to get their brain ticking so the dollar signs light up in their eyes. The answer was simple: Money. Lots of it.

I decided to pose as an Investor from Sydney and say that I was interested in buying their website outright. Many of them didn’t even list a contact person on the website, so I had to go to a domain name look up service (www.whois.com.au) to find out the legal owner of the domain name. I basically contacted them and offered a lump sum payment if I believed the opportunity was genuine – of course they listened to me.

I asked for access to the “members area” of the specific website I was interested in purchasing. I wanted to get in there to see what people would be getting for their money. I said that I didn’t want to be ripping people off and I would only buy their business outright if it was genuine.
What I found was amazing to say the least.

Almost every single work from home opportunity on the Internet in Australia I got “access” to was pathetic. I was so glad that I did this research because I found the following:

1.    No help section for members – no support!
2.    The “opportunity” just didn’t work – it’s all been done before
3.    Some of the links I was provided with didn’t work
4.    Old contact email addresses
5.    Being referred to other “moneymaking” websites that don’t make any money
6.    People not earning a single cent!

The funniest thing was when the person who I’d met about buying their site rang me up to see if I still wanted to go through with the sale! Needless to say I didn’t.

I did, however, come across sites that actually worked – ones that I could legitimately check out by speaking to others that have joined, verifying that people are actually earning money by chatting to people in forums, getting help through a help desk and having legitimate meetings where they could get information etc.
The information I got was impressive and delivered in a timely manner. Even being able to speak with the owner of the site was a huge bonus! It was like four shiny, little pearls in one big, dirty, muddy ocean and a couple of others you might want to try. You don’t have to take my word for it, but I have recommended the only opportunities below that I have found to be any good. Ok, they won’t really make you millions upon millions, but a couple of hundred dollars a day working from home isn’t bad. Have a look and see what you think.

Oh, one more thing, the good opportunities that I found did charge a small fee for their services, but if I’m getting an opportunity that actually worked where there was real people on hand to help me earn money, I didn’t mind paying one bit. In fact, quite the opposite – paying for a genuine work from home business with real support made it seem more logical.
So, that’s basically it. In a nutshell, if you join 99% of the “get rich quick” or “work from home” business opportunities in Australia you are going to get scammed. You might as well flush your money down the toilet. I know – I’ve seen what they offer first hand.

I strongly advise that you do NOT join any of these scams on the Internet, other than the ones below. Trust me, forget the rest, you will only get ripped off. If you choose to take my free advice, then so be it. Whatever, I hope this article has been of benefit and I wish you well.
Good luck!
James Raddick
Senior Reviewer

Here are the companies that I do recommend:
(1)    TheRichPom
(2)    Asian Pacific Advisory Group
(3)    Acai Berry
(4)    Paid Surveys

You might also want to try:

(6) Spoonfeeder
(7) Paid Home Typists

If you are still not convinced you can always check out (8) Home Business Matchup.

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