Many of you are looking for legitimate data entry and/or typing work at home opportunities. The fact of the matter is that these jobs aren't in high demand, period! Yeah I know it's not what you want to hear. But the truth hurts & will set you free.
History 101
A few decades ago, typewriters were all the rage & so were 8 tracks but I digress.Typewriters were specialized tools that only skilled people knew how to use. So typing and data entry jobs were in great demand. Fast forward to the 21 century and computers are common place. They're everywhere and used by everyone. So most people can type or enter data on their own. This has basically brought traditional typing and data entry jobs to the verge of extinction. So with this in mind, you should always be skeptical anytime a work at home product, service or site claims that they have boat loads of "typing" or "data entry" jobs that they'll provide to you for whatever fee they make up (usually $29.95 – $44.95).
Play on words…
Scam artists & shady marketers lure people into these so called opportunities because the words typing & data entry are fluid terms. If I write an email, ad or an article, guess what? I'm using a keyboard to "type" it. Sites like My-Data-Team.com and nearly EVERY other data entry or typing sites are using the fluidity of these words to lure you into buying their misrepresented products or services! When they reference that they have thousands of companies that will pay you to "type". They're basically trying to hoodwink you into affiliate/internet marketing.
Introducing….
Look, affiliate & internet marketing are great careers that can earn you thousands of dollars per month. I know from first hand experience & have been fortunate enough to be very successful at it for years. However just because a few bad apples misrepresent this opportunity doesn't mean it's a shady profession. So does affiliate/internet marketing involve typing? Well yes there is "typing" involved in the purest sense of the word. But it's not the traditional typing or data entry you have in mind. You don't just earn thousands of dollars just for typing ads for companies! If it were that easy, wouldn't everyone be doing it? Why are people leaving the comfort of their homes and children to work for "the man" if it were that easy? Well it's because it "ain't" that simple as My-Data-Team.com (or insert any other data entry/typing website here) would have you believe.
No guarantees in life…
Affiliate / Internet marketing requires training, hard work, dedication & an unwavering willingness to succeed. The pay off can be thousands of dollars or more! But there is no guarantee that it's going to happen over night, next week, a month from now and some cases maybe not even a year from now. Anyone GUARANTEEING that you'll make hundreds or thousands of dollars with typing, data entry or affiliate marketing within a certain time frame is just out to get your money!
Let me bring this point home for you with an analogy. I can teach you how to fish and even bring you to a lake. But I can't guarantee you'll catch a fish. Why? There are too many factors that I can't control. Are the fish biting? Are you using the right bait? Is it the right time of day? Etc, etc. Even if I can control for all those factors, I can't guarantee that you're going to catch a whopper.
Just in case you haven't noticed, I'm not a fisher. But the analogy still holds true when it comes to affiliate marketing and the scum that are misrepresenting it to you. Most of you will fail at it because you're going to be peeved that you were tricked in to it. Once you've realize what the "typing" really is, you'll give up and move on. And no one can blame you.
Don't do it!
So what's the point of all this babbling? It's simple, avoid paying for any of these data entry or typing websites! Repeat after me, AVOID PAYING FOR ANY DATA ENTRY OR TYPING WEBSITE! No my caps lock isn't broken! I'm literally shouting at you. But Eddy, what about (Enter website address here), Is it a scam too?
Is this thing on?
Do yourself a favor & go back to the start of this article and read it again! If it's promising to provide you with lots of companies that will pay you for data entry or typing, is being elusive about what the typing or data entry will be, promises to make you hundreds or thousands of dollars within a week or month, and/or charges you a fee to access this job so they can teach you the ropes, then just leave the page! It's that simple. If it smells, walks or talks like what I've described on this page, then keep it moving and save your money! Unless you want to be taught affiliate marketing by someone that is trying to hide this from you.
Is there no hope?
Now some of you may still be interested in affiliate marketing and that's great. If you feel like you have what it takes and willing to invest the time and energy into your career, then my personal recommendation is Wealthy Affiliate. If you have no idea what affiliate marketing is, just click here to read my story about it and how it's help me support my family and be free of lay offs, a bad economy and idiot bosses.
For those of you that are more inclined to "work for the man" & have them decide how much you're worth, there are a few companies that do offer traditional typing & data entry jobs. But you'll be on a very long waiting list. So keep that in mind. You can find such companies by visiting our work at home companies page by clicking here. Amazon also has some work at home data entry & typing opportunities via their Mechanical Turk program, click here to learn more about. Folks that live outside the U.S. should visit our international work at home page by clicking here.
I would be remiss if I did not mention Medical Transcription which is a typing job that requires some highly specialized skills. From my experience they tend to be available in great numbers. We seem to find endless availability for these jobs in our search for work at home. You can read more about Medical Transcription by clicking here.
So there you have it, data entry & typing scams revealed! As always when in doubt follow the advice of our scam video and do your research! It's easy, quick and effective. I should also note that this site and other legitimate work at home sites you visit have sponsors on them that fall into some of the companies I'm warning you against. Here's the thing, the advice still applies.
Say what?
Most websites are very much like TV Networks, newspapers & magazines. They all need sponsors to survive. Yes I need to pay bills & support my family as well. But it doesn't necessarily mean that these companies & websites are vouching for the listed advertisers. So keep that in mind. Advertisers are a necessary part of business. It's either that or charging you for the time spent writing articles like this. Personally I'd prefer if the advertisers pay. So don't assume that a sponsor listed on this site is a personal recommendation and that you should ignore the rules of doing your due diligence. Because we all know what happens when we "ass"ume.
In any event, If you've been mislead or "scammed" by any data entry or typing websites, feel free to put them on blasts by listing your experience in the comments below. I'm sure it will help the people that are inevitably going to ignore everything I wrote above and ask me; Is so and so data entry or typing site legitimate?
P.S. I will be ignoring any of those questions because it will tell me that you've ignored or skimmed through this article. That's just outright disrespectful and I know your momma raised you better than that. 😉
I agree with you. These jobs aren’t in high demand, but still exist. And that’s the fact Scammers take advantage of. In developing countries like here in India or Philippines, data entry scammers use the E-book mantra. They tell that these project are being outsourced by USA or UK companies. They provide you with few scanned page of a book and ask you to type that exactly into a MS Word file with 97% accuracy. If accuracy falls beyond that, you are denied payment. It is next to impossible to achieve that accuracy as commas, punctuations, spacings are also taken into account. The result? Nobody earns a dime, but scammers get richer by few thousand dollars. The people joining these projects aren’t that educated and internet savvy, and hence get isolated from the internet and lose their money. I’m a blogger as well and am currently creating a research article on this to expose the truth.
Indeed Bis. I think as a rule if folks stay away from the whole data entry and typing work at home jobs, they can avoid alot of this nonsense. The reality is these jobs aren’t really in great demand. So focus on the jobs and opportunities that are. And that helps a lot of people avoid this stuff. But too often people become fixated on one way of making money which leaves them open to scams like this.
And yesterday I get a notification email from People Per Hour. A “marketing” expert invites me to submit a proposal. He wants me to sell his products on my eBay site, paying me £100 per listing if I have a good eBay feedback score which I do. He asks me to email his personal hotmail account outside of PPH platform for “more details” I thought yeah right. So I said send me a deposit of £30 and we’ll discuss it, since time is money. Never heard anything From him again. Lol
The website “www (dot) typing – home – jobs (dot) com” is a scam. I don’t put the whole link in as all one word because I don’t want to link build or promote their website. it has hyphens in between each word as above. This is their well advertised, seo’d sales site.
I was out of work one day and checked all the details of the job advertised on the sales site above, by emailing and being patient enough to wait days for a full response, rather than risk the fee of £25.99. Satisfied with “Susan’s” response, a rep from ‘typing-home-jobs’ I paid the fee on Jan 15th 2016.
After being given login details to their “training” site “www e-commercehome (dot) com/” I soon saw that it was everything she told me it wasn’t. It was affiliate marketing mainly and contrary to what her site says, you also have to apply for the jobs yourselves, all of which can be found on the first page of Google for the search term ‘typing jobs from home’. All she did was put a long list of URL’s for each tab of her site, and charge you for her copy and pasting escapades.
When I asked for a refund, she declined, threatening legal action if I requested a chargeback from my bank. So what did I do? Paying with a visa debit card at TSB, I told her that if she did not refund me by her own free will, I would issue her a chargeback claim and her payment processor, Stripe Inc, would charge her an additional £15. So I told her she had until the bank opened on the following Monday GMT, that if my money was not refunded, I would issue the chargeback, she would be fined extra, and I would again write in to boast of my victory as VISA protects me up to £100 for services/goods not received.
I got the refund today.
Lesson learned.
Great job Yak!
Way to fight back. Thanks for sharing your experience. It’s nice to hear when work at home seekers win in these situations.
Beware of any ads on Craigslist that are looking for an assistant to a regional operations manager! I dumbly responded was asked to do an interview via yahoo messenger and like a dummy did. Then the corker! They wanted me to purchase a different laptop from their vendor. When I told them I did not have that kind of funds laying around they decided to send me the money. A cashiers check came by UPS I took it to my bank and they verified it. Guess what? It was a fraud and was the third one one that account that week. Needless to say I didn’t deposit the check and I made a fool of myself. These people claim they are with Global Finance based in Greece but when you insist on speaking to someone they tell you the main office is in Maylasia! Please be careful out there! There are still good people in the world you just have to look for them. God Bless! Eddy thank you for your good works! You truly are an angel
Hey Lori,
Thanks for sharing we actually have an article about this type of scam listed here:
https://www.workathomenoscams.com/2007/10/16/fake-checks-wire-transfer-scams-fakechecksorg-fights-back/
You should also be aware of the reshipping scam that pops up a lot on craigslist:
https://www.workathomenoscams.com/2008/10/07/package-forwarding-reshipping-job-or-scam/
Craigslist is a great place to find jobs but you just need to know how to your research and even when you do the scam artist are smart enough to use legitimate company’s name. But it’s easy to spot they aren’t that legitimate company because when you do contact that legitimate company they probably won’t even know of the person you’re asking about who is the scammer posing as an employee.
The other thing is no matter what the scammer says, even if they said God sent them I always know they’re a scam if they mention cashing checks, money orders, wiring money or shipping packages. Once I start hearing any mention of that then I know it’s garbage. Unfortunately they won’t really mention that stuff until after you’ve emailed them or gone through some fake interview.
But the best way to avoid the scams is to be in the know of the common scams and you’ll be able to sniff through any of the variations like I do. So be sure to study the rest of the scams on our scam page:
http://www.workathomenoscams.com/scams It will help alot.
As always my personal recommendations can be found here:
http://www.workathomenoscams.com/recommendations and we list pre-screened jobs here:
http://www.workathomenoscams.com/jobs
Thanks for sharing with us and the kind words. I really appreciate it.
I live in the Caribbean and I’ve been searching for an online job to do for almost a year………… with no luck. Can you please help me? Is it possible to also get one where I have to pay nothing to start off that would be great thanks 🙂
Read the article, I linked to various pages regarding jobs including one for people outside the U.S.
No worries. I know folks need that tough talk sometimes to realize when something terrible is going to happen.
I was just given a work at home assignment. I didn’t pay a penny to the company but I’m skeptical. I can’t find anything on them or about them, their phone doesn’t work and the emails bounce. This to me is a Flag, but since I don’t have to pay them anything to review telemarketers,,,,,what are they getting out of this? The job is Administration/Data Entry, it suppose to take 2.5 hours and they send me a check or pay me via pay pal, or money order…and they claim they will pay me $150.00 for 2.5 hrs of work.
Thanks Mel
Just because something doesn’t charge a fee doesn’t mean it’s not a scam. Read all the comments in my package forwarding and fake check cashing scam page and you’ll see many examples of this happening every day:
https://www.workathomenoscams.com/2007/10/16/fake-checks-wire-transfer-scams-fakechecksorg-fights-back/
https://www.workathomenoscams.com/2008/10/07/package-forwarding-reshipping-job-or-scam/
Follow your instincts and ignore this company. There is absolutely no reason to take a risk with a work at home company when there are so many proven ones we’ve already researched and listed for you:
http://www.workathomenoscams.com/recommendations
http://www.workathomenoscams.com/jobs
Always follow your instincts!
Thank you for shaking me into reality. Have a wonderful day.
If this involve money in any way, I am not interested.
Here we go again. Let me guess, you decided not to read a word of the article above and just decided to post this comment.
No wonder why “eddie salomon” is always on the top of clixsense as the top affiliate who always beat my mentor “pinoydeal”. Because the information that you are providing is valuable and very helpful to anyone who wanna make some extra money online… Good job man! I hope that you can share some tips on how to boost my online business..^_^ I just subscribed on your blog and I hope that I can be like you in the future..^_^ Keep it up!
I don’t know who this Eddie Salomon is but I do know Eddy Salomon tends to be on top of clixsense because I provide a lot of value on my site. LOL If you help people achieve their goals and are honest, they’ll always be very happy to sign up for legitimate programs you recommend. So that’s how you boost your business. The more you read this blog, the more of this you’ll see and why I’ve been very successful. Knowing internet marketing helps tremendously as well. lol
Thanks for the kind words. Good luck.
Thanks Eddy. I will do that.
Have a good night!!
You’re welcome. You too!
Hi Eddie
I am a mother, wife and currently pregnant with my second child. I am looking to work from home but I am not sure where to go, I have experience in customer service, call center sales, and jewelry sales ( I make my own) and I have fair computer knowledge in Microsot office applications, do you have any advice??
Thank you
Yes I do.
1. Read my work at home guide:
http://