Well, the new section on unresearched work at home jobs is about as much work as I expected, which is to say a lot of work! But that’s fine, since I planned for that. I just hope people are finding it to be a good resource.

My system for locating the jobs seems to be working all right. I have several sites bookmarked, and I’m always keeping my eyes open for more resources. I’m getting more efficient at scanning the jobs so that I don’t waste time on jobs I can’t post anyhow.

The big question, as always is “am I unintentionally posting a lot of scams?” and of course the answer is that quite honestly I do not know. I hope that anyone who comes across a scam posting in something I have listed will take the time to comment on it so that I can get rid of it, and hopefully learn any warning signs I am so far not aware of.

Here are some of the things I watch out for:

• Bold text or ALL CAPS – Either one is an attempt to draw extra attention to the ad, and I automatically mistrust that.
• Listing the same job in too many cities – I saw one job listing claiming they need 9 people, yet they had listed themselves in dozens of cities. That’s probably a really hard position to fill, a pitch for a home business where they don’t really care how many answers they get, or a scam. Guess which one I tend to suspect?
• Ads promising you can earn an excessive amount for the kind of job – Yes, there are sales jobs where you can earn six figures a year. But most people won’t earn that much in them. Promising outrageous earnings is also a hallmark of a scam.
• Ads that are too vague – I know that a lot of job listings on Craigslist are really stealth ads for sites such as legitjobs.net; or at least, people start getting emails for them when they apply to said jobs. So I mistrust any job that it isn’t at least reasonably clear what the job is. Am I posting some of those stealth listings? Probably, but I hope I have avoided posting too many.
• Anything that just gives me that feeling – Sometimes I just don’t quite feel right about a potential job lead, so I just don’t post it.

Now, there’s no way for me to know for certain how well I’m doing at not posting the scams unless people tell me. I hope over time to better learn which job listings to avoid, but there will always be the possibility of scams. The scammers are always changing their ad styles, after all.

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