The truth about work at home SECRETARIAL jobs

You've seen the ads for 'home typist', 'email processors', or
'work-at-home secretarial' jobs.   Are they a scam?
Read this email that we received from a victim of one of these
alleged employers.   Decide for yourself whether they are a scam:

Email from 'secretarial job' victim:

. . . Originally they make it sound like you'll be working for their company, and only mention paid training.   Instead once they "accept" your application and your $10 fee you basically become a scout to recruit other people.   They give you some suggestions to either post flyers in local malls etc OR to put ads up on "free" sites using your ID#.
Anyway, you are supposed to get paid $5 for every accepted application
that's approved that you submit for them to look at. They call it a
"compiling assistant" and then after you have 10 people sign up, pay their
money ($10) and get approved, you are supposed to either be referred to companies looking for telecommuters OR you can stay working for them; either in recruiting, or another position.   However, you can't even see the positions that other companies have listed except a title,
so I wonder if they even exist?

I was just looking for a telecommuting job, and their $10 fee was the cheapest one I could find. I didn't know I'd be transformed into a salesperson basically for their site.

Kim S.

Even if not a scam, it's certainly true that many of these jobs are NOT what
they appear on the surface. We at telecommute-jobs.com recommend extreme
caution with any jobs that sound too good to be true. In other words, if the
job description seems to be preoccupied with selling you on how nice it would be
to work at home (ie: family, flex-schedule, working comforts) - then they probably
have questionable motives. Many of these are trying to sell you something.

The real telecommute jobs tend to have job descriptions that focus on the type of
work that you will be doing, and then in an "oh by the way" fashion - mention that
you can telecommute.

If you've been deceived by one of these secretarial job opportunities,
you can file a complaint with WebAssured.com, the better business bureau,
or the Federal Trade Comission.

We at telecommute-jobs.com have a zero-tolerance policy for scam
advertisements of any kind. We aim to to
advertise only REAL telecommute jobs and our staff strives to maintain this emphasis.