Think WWW stands for the World Wide Web?
There are times to consider it the Wild Wild Web.

The Internet has brought about many opportunities: Instant communications, instant information, virtual connection anywhere and the ability to use it to work from anywhere.

It also has brought many opportunities for those people who would like to take advantage of others. The Internet has brought about computer viruses and many scams. Unfortunately many of these scams are in the area of TeleCommuting work.

This is due to in part to the growing popularity and desire to work at home. This is also due to the anonymity of Internet communications. When viewing emails or webpages you don’t actually see the persons who created these. This makes it easy for scammers to attempt to take advantage of people.

Those who would rather steal their fortune than work for it are poisoning the waters of TeleCommuting. If there were no easy ill-gotten gains to be had, they would look elsewhere -- or even to honest endeavors.

To tame the Web for TeleCommuting, we just need to be aware.

To close the doors to scammers, this book will continue to provide clues as to potential work at home scams. And we invite all viewers to Comment about any scams they have encountered.

There are many signposts to potential work at home scams. One of the most popular of these is requiring money in order to gain employment. If the job requires money up-front in order to attain employment you must ask yourself is this a real job or a scam? Certainly there are jobs that require special equipment and sometimes the worker must purchase this equipment. However, this equipment is normally not only supplied by the employer.

Another type of employment that is popular on the Internet is MLM or multilevel marketing. There are many types of MLMs. Some of these have gained some level of legitimacy, however one must be cautious in this type of employment. Most of these MLMs sell some type of product or service. When you join a MLM you are brought in at a certain level of the organization.

The person that brings you into the organization obtains some percentage of your sales. You, in turn, obtain some percentage of sales for those individuals you bring into the organization. Some people in the organization bring in so many people, directly and indirectly, that they no longer are involved in selling products.