WorkAtHomeScamPrevention.com is launching the first Work-At-Home Scam Prevention Week, March 17-23, 2008. Work-At-Home Scam Prevention Week and its supporters believe that knowledge is the best weapon against work-at-home fraud. To that end, Work-At-Home Scam Prevention Week will provide work-at-home wannabes with important information and resources to find legitimate home-based income opportunities and avoid scams. 

Work-At-Home Scam Prevention Week is the brainchild of Leslie Truex a work-at-home mom who has been guiding would-be home-based workers towards legitimate work opportunities since 1998 through her website WorkAtHomeSuccess.com. “The majority of email I receive asks for my opinion on a work-at-home opportunity and more often than not, the opportunity is a scam,” says Truex. “I created WorkAtHomeScamPrevention.com and Work-At-Home Scam Prevention Week to give people who want to work at home a place to get the information they need to evaluate work-at-home opportunities, and also keep them abreast of new scams.”

Truex reports that the most common work-at-home scams found today include envelop stuffing, assembly work, email processing, payment processing jobs (fake check scam), data entry and typing, rebate processing, and some business opportunities. “There are many legitimate ways to make money at home and these opportunities are easy to find. But people need to understand the difference between the legitimate work and the scams. One rule of thumb is that if it advertises fast, easy money without any experience, it’s probably a scam.”

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Work-at-home expert Leslie Truex will be hosting a Work-At-Home Scam Prevention week in March. In anticipation, she is conducting a survey of people’s experiences with work-at-home scams. “I was curious to find out not just what scams people are falling victim to, but also their thoughts at the time they acted on the scam, and what they did in response to being scammed,” says Truex who will post the results of the survey during Work-At-Home Scam Prevention week (March 17-23). The survey also posts questions to people who want to work-at-home, but haven’t been victimized by a scam. “I’m curious as to what they’re doing differently that is resulting in not getting scammed. There is obviously something they’re doing right and we can probably learn from them.”

Truex hopes to not only learn which scams are the most prevalent, but the psychological aspects that lead many to fall for the false hopes and dreams scams offer. She plans to use the information from the survey to create scam prevention materials that will effectively protect people from scams. “I believe avoiding scams involves knowledge as well as learning to control the emotions that lead us to buy. But this survey may reveal additional information about why people get scammed and how it can be better avoided.”

If you have been scammed or have run into scams but avoided being victimized, you’re invited to share your experiences in the Work-At-Home Scam Survey.   The survey consists of 15 questions, many of which require only a ‘yes’ and ‘no’ answer, and should take participants only a few minutes to fill out.

To learn more about the Work-At-Home Scam Survey or to share your own experiences with work-at-home scams, visit the Work At Home Scam Survey.

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