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This is not to say that there are not a lot of honest real work at home opportunities that provide legitimate online jobs. But peppered in with the good are those who scam and are out to just get your money. Email is such an easy means to scam people, that it's a safe bet that every person with an email account will have received some type of scammy offer in their inbox.
Your best defense against falling prey to an email hoax is to research the company that is offering you a "job". It's very easy to use the internet to do this research.
Look up the company in question in a popular search engine such as Google or Yahoo or Bing. Run a search on the name of company followed by the word scam. See if anything comes up. Find out what state the company does business in and look up the state's Better Business Bureau site. You can find out a lot of information on a company if they are indeed bad through the BBB.
These sites are good places to start when you want to investigate an email hoax, research a particular company or even if you have fallen victim to
such a company:
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