How To Avoid An Assembly Job Scam

Strangely enough, you can mostly spot a scam from a mile away. They all share certain tell tale signs but its funny how so many people still become victim of the work from home offers. There are two main reasons for this. One is that most of the scams are designed to appeal to the innermost desires of a person. More than that they bring about that emotion that the human heart desires the most. Hope. Every single scam home based job offer has an excellent sales copy written for it. It wants to make you believe that maybe its still possible to make thousands dollars over night. The second factor responsible is the numerous new people finding their way on the internet everyday. More and more people are looking for home based and internet related work in order to supplement their incomes. This has become even more true in the face of the suffering economy.

So the first lesson to be learnt is that do not believe everything you read on the Internet. I know it is hard. After all these many years on the internet, I still get fascinated by some of the work at home programs that I read about. I must confess, the sales copies just keep getting better and better. And every now and then I do pay up to get that secret formula, just to see what latest junk is being used to mislead and scam the people . And that’s when I realize. It’s almost always the same stuff, but in a different package. The sales copies have become better. The websites are sleeker. But the useless information being sold remains the same. There is no formula for making instant riches on the internet. And no one is certainly selling it to you for $25.96. So never go into an assembly jobs offer on the merit of the sales copy alone. Do your research.

See if the company claiming to hire people to assemble products from home is listing an address with a phone number or not. If all you can locate is a P.O box address, then that is a big red flag.

Check out the company by speaking to someone on the telephone. If you are initially communicating by post, ask for the name of the person in charge and the phone number. If they are un-willing to divulge this information, do not consider doing business with them.

Always ask for the real address and ask if you can pay them a visit. Even if you stay in another state and have no intentions of traveling, tell them that you plan to be in the vicinity. The response will tell you a lot about the standing of the company.

Always check the company out online. You will find out various reviews as well as reports on websites such as the Better Business Bureau ( www.bbb.org). Call up your local Better Business Bureau to check if they have any information about the company that you are interested in working for.

If you cannot find existing information on the Internet, post your queries on some of the popular blogs and forums such as www.wahm.com. You are very likely to receive a response from members over there.

Whenever you speak with a representative of an assembly company, do not shy away from asking questions about the business such as, how many years has the company been in business, the number of employees, the name of the person in-charge, the nature of their business ( whether they are a craft store retailer or a wholesaler) and the number of people currently doing assembly work for them. A popular assembly company that goes by the name of Magical Gift Company maintains a list of all the crafters approved for working with them on their website. The say that you get approved to work for them, you will see your name listed as well.