Where are the real work-at-home jobs?
While there are more work-at-home scams than there are legitimate job opportunities that one can pursue in the home, there are real opportunities. In the mid-2000s, one of the biggest scams was one in which a foreign entity contacted potential workers via email or on CareerBuilder.com and other job search boards. CareerBuilder did a good job of weeding these false job listings from their reputable offers, with the help of readers that found them and reported to CareerBuilder.com. The scammer stated that they wished to have staff in America to handle payment checks that their Eastern European banks could not process. The employee would receive checks at home, deposit them in their own personal checking accounts, and keep 15 to 20% of the cash while sending on a Western Union payment, which was an additional cost to the employee. Many times, the checks were 1) for EBay merchandise that was never received or 2) fraudulent, leaving the employee with a badly overdrawn checking account, plus
