Rule No:7 - Read the Fine Print

Scam Home Business as you know is based on deception and witholding of crucial information that prevents an honest buyer from making an informed decision and leads people into "thinking" that they have got the best offer in the world and if they miss out on it, they would never be able to forgive themselves.

Let me give you an example. Quite often you would have a $1 offer being given because the advertiser has made millions of dollars and he wants struggling income seekers to benefit from the offer and tell the whole world of how fantastic the advertised "program" has been to them. Another example would be an announcement of a lottery winners and you are "invited" to claim your "prize money."

Do not get me wrong, there are genuine offers on the internet. However, the ones to watch out for are the ones that do not tell you the actual cost or "requirements" upfront.
You never get to know the actual cost and all through the spiel,the price is $1 in bold print until you order it and then
on the order form, somewhere in the corner the price of $100 written in such fine print that you would need a high powered telescope to read it.

The question is: Why would any honest,legitimate business want to hide the price details until the very last second of a customer ordering the product?

So my advice would be to read everything, especially what's written in fine print and avoid being a victim of a bogus lottery organization or scam home based business

Rule No:6- Be Aware of Pyramid Schemes and Chain Letters

The question to ask when deciding on whether a particular "business opportunity" is a pyramid scheme or a chain letter would be:
Does the business opportunity offer a legitimate product or service?

Very often, Scam Businesses will harp and scream about how easy and how "logical"
the system is in putting oodles of money in your pocket.

After cutting away all the fluff. It will boil down to this rationale- You pay your upline some cash and then your downline pays you some cash and your downline will get paid from their downline and on and on it goes.
Hang on a second- where is the product or service?

This my friend is a pyramid scheme/chain letter and in my opinion has the smell of
a scam home based business

Rule No: 5- Have all your questions answered

All scam businesses always seek to hide information that will potentially cause would be buyers to turn away.

This is why it is so important that you are perfectly clear as to what you are getting before you sign up for a home based business.

Ensure that all questions, no matter how trivial they may be is answered to your
satisfaction. If it is a legitimate home business then they will answer any questions that you have and this is a sign that they are not evading critical questions.

Misleasding, hyped up and "hazy" information that doesn't spell out anything concrete is a sure tell tale sign of a scam home based business

Rule No:4 - Value for Money

As you will already have realised there are probably a kazillion work at home and make a million dollars advertisements on the net that are enticing you to part with your money.

How do you ferret out the businesses that give you real value for money and the scammers that are bleating about their imported "testimonials" showing a grandpa
making money while playing with his grand children?

The answer lies squarely in the value of the product.

Some questions you can ask yourself are:

(a) Will the product help solve a problem that I face?
(b) Does it have a definite system that has proven to work?
(c) What is the method employed that supposedly "rakes" in the income?
(d) Are there "complications" and additional work that is involved
that will take up a lot of your time and energy?
(e) How would you feel if you were the customer of the product or
service being sold?

Anyone can dish out a free download and claim it makes a million but is it "worth the paper that it's written on"

Remember the saying- "All that glitters is not gold said the monkey urinating by the
moonlight"

A genuine work at home or income opportunity will focue on uncovering
needs and solving problems and empower it's subscribers to be in a better
position to make money rather than just
make a lot of noise about fast cars, bikini clad women and mansions.

It is quite important to really think about the product or service in question, explore the details and determine if it is something that will definitely give you the income break that you are looking for.

Focus intensely on the product or service as a necessary precaution to avoid scam home based business

Rule No:3 - Safe Payment Options

Check to see if the advertiser is offering safe payment options like pay pal, alert pay etc.

If the advertised home business in question is genuine and operates with integrity, then they will also be concerned about the welfare of their clients and possible misuse of credit card details.

Remember scammersare not concerned about the safety of their "victims" and giving away credit card details to an apparent stranger who shows up on the internet is a "no no"

Once credit card details are given, you will never have any control over where your credit card details are floating and what sort of abuse you are inviting. So you have to take the necessary precautions regardless of "security" terminology that the potential scammer is using to convince you that it is safe. It is better to be safe and not fall prey to the unethical practices of a scam home based business

Rule No: 2- Are they contactable?

One of the most horrific "sinking feeling" you can get after you sign up is to find that when you make a phone call,you are getting answer phone messages which are suprisingly "full" or in the worst case scenario, find that there this no valid telephone and the scam home business is completely "uncontactable."

It is quite frustrating and nerve wrecking to know that you have just been scammed and you have to kiss your hard earned money good bye and all because you didn't do the homework to check whether the advertised home business existed. There is no gurantee of course that a valid phone number is a 100% guarantee of a valid home business but at least you have ensured that there is a point of contact.

So before you sign on the dotted line so to speak and make the payment, ensure that there is a contactable telephone number and you are speaking to a live person not a smooth talking robot.
I would go even further to check whether they exist in the telephone directory and the address in the directory matches the address that has been stated on the internet. If the address in the directory doesn't match the address stated on the advertisement, you wil want to know the reason.

To gve you a real live example- I was really excited about a very professional looking email ad which promised double opt in list of millions of paypal registered users that I can email to, and scam compliant.Just before signing up, I decided to email the advertiser and ask him for contact details. I never hard back from the "advertiser". This ad was so enticing that most people could have easily fallen victim


Let's face it there are thousands of home businesses on the net, so don't be in a hurry to hand over your money to a scammer. Do the checks suggested and avoid a lot of grief.
Believe me, you will thank me when you dodge the financial pain of a scam home based business.

Rule No:1 - Unconditional Money Back Gurantee

Before you are mesmerised by the promotional blurb and the millions of dollars the business has made and their loaded paypal accounts, scroll down to see if there is a money back guarantee


Always look to see if there is a money back guarantee offered within 1 to 3 months . If there is some serious sign up payment that's involved, I would have both eyes really wide open even if it is 2AM


Take it from a self confessed internet scam guinea pig who has wasted a lot of money,
signing up for home businesses that did not clearly offer money back guarantees.


I don't care how desperate you are, internet scammers target desperate people and they know the wording to use on their ads to make you salivate and forget about money back guarantees.


If it is a legitimate business and it is indeed a profitable business as claimed then the advertiser will be rich enough to confidently provide you with a money back guarantee


Trust me it's easy for scammers to supply you with some cheap trash digital products and free downloads and if no money back guarantee has been offered, then you have no grounds to ask them for a refund and you become one of the many victims of a scam home based business.