Are there legitimate work-from-home opportunities?
• Contact the Better Business Bureau to determine the legitimacy of the company. • Be suspicious when money is required up front for instructions or products. • Dont provide personal information when first interacting with your prospective employer. • Do your own research into legitimate work-at-home opportunities, using the Work-at-Home Sourcebook and other resources that may be available at your local library. • Ask lots of questions of potential employerslegitimate companies will have answers for you! • Ask for a street address, not just a PO Box, and find out as much as you can about the company and its operations. • Ask to talk to other employees – and to ensure they are for real, visit them to see what type of work is involved and how they are organized. • Ask to see examples of the final product and the work required. • Ask what materials are supplied, or not supplied. • Ask how you will be paid – and in what currency. • Ask where the business is incorporated and where it’s busi