1. You must know the person you are dealing with. Most company that hires employee do not offer to employ you directly, just to sell you training and materials and to look for customers for your work.

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2. 1. You must know the person you are dealing with. Most
company that hires employee do not offer to employ you
directly, just to sell you training and materials and to look
for customers for your work.
2. Do not be a dime a dozen. Managing a business is just
like any other business which requires hard work, skill,
good products or services, and time to make a profit.
Additionally, there is no such thing as sitting on a rackin’
chair and just waiting for the time of giving checks.
3. Be observant and cautious about the emails you are
receiving that includes an offering of work at home
opportunities. Most of these acts are deceptive.

3. 4. Put into practice the so called “know and pay”. You have
to know first everything in detailed before making a plan or
action to a certain situation.
5. Find a picture paints a thousand words. Claims that
there are customers for work such as medical billing and
craft making may not be true. If the company says it has
customers waiting, ask who they are and contact them to
confirm. To make an assurance, ask likely customers in
your area if they actually hire people to do work at home.
6. Get references for other people who are doing the work.
Ask them if the company kept its promises.

4. 7. Check of about legal requirements. There are works that cannot
do at home and requires some license or certificate that proves
you are an authorized person to the work. Check with your state
attorney general’s office. Ask your local zoning board if there are
any restrictions on operating a business from your home. Some
types of work cannot be done at home under federal law. Look for
the nearest U.S. Department of Labor in the government listings of
your phone book.
8. Know the return and exchange policy. If you have to buy
equipment or supplies, ask whether and under what circumstances
you can return them for a refund.
9. Get rid off the old envelop stuffing scheme. This is a usual scam
in which instead of getting materials to send out on behalf of a
company, they will give you instructions and will ask you to send
them a money for information about working at home, considered
as an illegal for the reason that there is no real product or service
being offered.

5. 10. Be cautious of the statement: Advance on your pay. This is just their
intro into their long tragic story to have an audience and be their
listener and soon be their member on the very theatric act. Possibly,
they will give you a check for part of your first month’s pay. You
deposit it, and the bank tells you the check has cleared because the
normal time has passed to be notified that checks have bounced.
Then, the criminal will ask you to return a portion of the payment for
some different reason. After sending the money back, the check that
you deposited finally bounces because it turned out to be an intricate
forged. Now the criminal have your payment, and you’re left owing
your bank the amount that you withdrew.
11. Make your own research about work-at home opportunities. Look
for reviews, articles or even magazines that can give you an advice
or tips on how to determine whether the work is accurate or forged.
Ask also some of the persons that is same with the profession of the
said employer and to really check if there is alike work of your
employer’s offering. Before you make an application, reassure all the
important information of the employer that you can work with. The in-
detailed identification of the company or of the employer in which you
can hold, when something wrong happen.