What is an online jobs scam or an online make money scam?

There are so many different kinds of scams on the internet and the number of new and improved scams is increasing with every passing day. As technology improves, the scams techniques are also improving.

One of the scams on the internet is the online jobs related or making money online related scam. This type of scam is one of the worst for the people who want to earn some cash on the internet. Because of such scams, many people lose money instead of making money.

There are many different ways via which people scam online. But I will not go in details, as there are many types of scams involved.

What I want to talk about is how we can make sure that we never get into such traps or get scammed, while looking for an online money making opportunity.

First of all: A very simple yet powerful rule to remember:

You never ever give any money to any body online to get any kind of online jobs or to start earning money at some site. You close the site where they demand you to pay any registration FEE [may be they will call it some thing else, like invest little money or put money as security fee].

Never give even a cent to anybody on the internet. This is a very simple rule but it will make sure that you never get scammed online.

Let’s talk about some example:

Some online money making opportunities may sound extremely interesting. But in order to join, they will demand to give a small fee. Like $40 [may be less or more]. And in return, they will promise to make you rich in quick time or may promise to give you simple work like data entry, typing or form filling, and the pay for such work will be $250 [may be more or less] per day.

There are many other great offers too, but all that is true about such offers or sites is that they are doing nothing but lying. There is no online money making opportunity, that is going to make you rich in quick time. Sometimes these offers are so attractive that people decide to pay the small fee and hope that they will soon become rich [They pay the small fee to take a chance. They know that they can get scammed but they decide to give it a try as the fee is little, and if it is not scam, then they will become rich.]. But sooner or later, they find out that they were just scammed on the internet.

How to make sure you never get Scammed on the internet while doing online jobs?

You must always remember and implement the rule that I mentioned above. The rule is to not give any money to any body on the internet no matter how attractive the online money making opportunity is.

When you never give any money on the internet then it means that no body can scam you and steal your money.

There are so many online work at home opportunities that are 100% free. So why pay money to get work at home, when there are free online money making opportunities available.

Can you show me one of the online money making opportunities that are 100% FREE and Legitimate?

Well yes, freelance site is the place where you will never have to worry about any kind of scams at all. You will get online jobs at freelance sites without investing any money at all.

You only need to invest some effort plus some time and in return, you will make lot of money.

[NOTE: You will have to read the content on the home page in order to find out all the information about freelance sites and other free online money making opportunities]

A question may rise in your mind, which is:

If you are not going to pay any fee at freelance sites [to get online jobs] then how will the freelance sites make money for themselves?

A very interesting question indeed but the answer is very simple one. That is: at freelance sites you never invest any money and you never pay any money from your own pocket. It means that you will only get money from freelance sites and you never have to pay them from your own pocket.

So how do freelance sites make money for themselves?

Simple: let’s say that you got a job at a freelance site that worth $100. After you complete the work, you will be paid and you will see the money in your account in the freelance site. You can then request the freelance site to send you your money via PayPal, MoneyBookers etc. This is how things work at freelance site.

But there is one important thing to tell you: when you will get the money for the job you complete at freelance site [let’s say you got $100], then the freelance site will deduct a small fee [normally it is %5].

So you will get $95 instead of $100.

OK, so this is the catch and looks like this work is also a scam?

Not at all; like I said, you are not giving this fee from your pocket. This fee is deducted from the money that you will earn via doing online jobs at freelance site. This is the fee that freelance site take for giving you the work to do at home or office etc.

This fee a not much and is very reasonable.

So in simple words: at freelance site you will see many projects. You can bid on any of them and if you win a project [let’s say the project worth $100], you will then complete the work in the given time. After the work is completed, you will be paid but instead of $100, you will get $95.

So does this sound like a scam to you? Are freelance sites taking any money from your own pocket?