Top 5 Work At Home Scam Fighting Websites
Work At Home Scams are like fashion trends, if you don’t keep up you get left behind. But for work from home seekers it’s actually a lot worst. With fashion, you might get picked on because you’re wearing "skippy lous" and everyone else is wearing Jordans. For work at home seekers, if you don’t keep up, you lose out on money that could have went to feeding little junior.
For those of you who read my article "Better Business Bureau Listed Work From Home & Scams!", You already know that I’ve concluded that the BBB reports although useful should be taken with a grain of salt. Actually one of our visitors basically flat out discredited the BBB altogether when she stated the following:
"Erika says: I hate to break it to you, but the BBB is a huge joke. First of all, they actually don’t research these companies… "
Now I can’t totally vouch for the Erika’s point of view about the BBB but I respect her candor. There are many other people that would argue just the opposite of her argument. Personally I think there is a portion of truth on both sides of the argument.
But with that said, I don’t like leaving my website visitors and subscribers to chance or limited options. So we’ve compiled a list of alternate websites that are dedicated to fighting work at home, Internet and email scams.
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Please keep in mind that no web site is without flaws. Just as people may have argued that the Better Business Bureau has some problems, the websites listed below have been accused of things like jumping to conclusions, vendettas, etc. However, like that annoying drunk uncle in the family, you have to look pass their flaws and focus on the good in each of these sites.
So with no further delay here are our top 5 scam fighting websites!
Honorable Mentions go out to the following websites as well:
- WorkAtHomeNoScams.com (Oh you better believe we gotta give ourselves a shout out. We work hard to tell you about scams. lol)
Did I miss any scam fighting website? Do you think that the BBB is the be and end all of scam prevention? Let us know, leave a comment below.
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January 22nd, 2008 at 10:20 am |
The BBB has not been very helpful with scams offline. I’m not all that confident with their online abilities.
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:23 am |
Thanks for your comments Ms. T!
Wow, seems to be a lot of discontent with the BBB. Interesting.
Eddy
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:55 pm |
I have been victimized by such scams! It is really frustrating to search for genuine work at home jobs, because the scams are on top of the search engine lists. Do you know about the Young Entrepreneur Society from www.YoungEntrepreneurSociety.com? Plenty of related stuff within.
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:20 pm |
Thanks for the shout-out. Too bad we weren’t in the top 5.
January 23rd, 2008 at 12:04 am |
Thanks for the comment Steve! That may change in the near future when we re-visit this list later in the year.
Your blog provides such a wealth of current information on scams and so-called opportunities and I encourage everyone to go there right now to read and subscribe to it www.ivetriedthat.com.
You have a no-nonsense style. Jeez, you’ve even “put me on blast” for one of my pre-sell pages. lol
Eddy
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:05 pm |
Hey Eddy,
It is my pleasure to chime in with a few helpful Web Consumer Protection (WCP) sites to add to your list.
http://www.netcheck.com
http://www.scamxposer.com
http://www.scamfreezone.com
http://www.wahwatchdog.org
WCP sites are great scam prevention tools. It is such a blessing to have them readily available for our use.
January 24th, 2008 at 9:34 am |
Hi Callie,
Thanks for those sites. I’m familiar with two of them but the other ones were new. So thanks for sharing.
Eddy
January 31st, 2008 at 1:44 am |
I Have Heard My Mother Say That Just Because Its On The BBB Does Not Mean Its The Real Deal And I Hate To Say It But She Is Right. I See Many Web Business That Have The Seal Of Approval But Never Heard The Truth About It All. Thanks.
I Am Going To Tell Everybody About Your Resource. Later.
January 31st, 2008 at 7:37 am |
Hi Again Lee,
Thanks for the comments. Seems to be a common theme here.
Eddy
May 26th, 2008 at 4:38 pm |
I would also like to comment on this BBB debate.
The BBB can’t report about things it doesn’t know about. With that said, if you or someone you know has been scammed by a work at home scheme you owe it to yourself and others to report it…I know that I use the BBB a lot during my quest for legitimate work at home jobs and they have saved me from doing something I am sure I would have regretted it I had gone forward. On the other hand there are times they do not have the information I need….there again if they only receive one or two complaints on a business during a year or two that business is not going to receive bad ratings since that amount of bad feed back is not consided grounds for negative reporting. That is why it comes back to what I said before…you have to report the scams.
I still will use the BBB but as Eddy said in a previous article, useful information that should be taken with a grain of salt.
Scherri
May 27th, 2008 at 12:31 pm |
Hi Scherri,
Thanks for thoughtful insight. I think you’ve pretty much summed up my sentiments. The BBB is just one of many resources that should be taken into consideration not the only one like so many websites are arguing.
When people use various resources like the ones listed in this article you get a better picture of what may be going on.
So hopefully everyone has picked up on this.
But thanks again for bringing it home Scherri.
Eddy
August 27th, 2008 at 5:34 pm |
Hi Eddy,
Thanks so much for taking the time to answer my email I sent you. I wanted to add another source for reporting scams and that is The Internet Crime Complaint Center, you can access an online complaint form by going to www.FBI.gov . Also the State Attorney Generals Office in a person’s home state and also the state where the scam artist are operating a business, would also be another source for launching a possible investigation.
August 27th, 2008 at 5:43 pm |
You’re welcome Eunice.
Thanks for sharing additional resources with everyone!
Eddy