2017-05-20

How Widespread are Work at Home Scams?

Work at home fraud is extraordinarily prevalent in today’s market.


To outline just how widespread these scams are, according to a 2007 article on Good Morning America’s website, “research indicates the ratio of [work at home] scams to legitimate opportunities is 42-to-1.”


And in reality, it’s highly likely that they’ve become even more prevalent since that time, considering that the number of internet users has more than doubled between 2007 and 2017.


However, before we get too deep into identifying these scams, let’s make an important distinction here.


Even if you find one of the few work at home opportunities that aren’t considered a scam, you shouldn’t take this to mean that it’s necessarily worthwhile, or that you’ll even recoup your initial expenses after everything’s said and done.


Why is this the case?