When looking for legitimate online work, income or investment opportunities, using the Internet, you must be extremely careful.
You need to know how to check if a company is legitimate or not.
In fact, the best policy is to consider all offers as scams until proven otherwise.
This article will give you some tips on how to checkout revenue offers, business and money making offers.
This article will give examples of types of scams, to watch out for.
Any time you are tempted by an Internet offer the first thing you should do is use the three major search engines to check for warnings that the offer is considered a scam by other Internet users.
For example, if the offer is called clicksters, enter +clicksters +scam and then hit return or enter.
There may be some comments for your review where others are questioning the opportunity, just as you are.
Another excellent way to check out possible income opportunities, which you have located online, is to look for a whistle website.
This type of website, or blog, has made it their calling to checkout as many online income and revenue making possibilities as possible.
These types of websites are set up in various ways, but usually they have a search function that you can use to see if others have complained about the opportunity.
The best of these websites will have "watch lists" for readers to be very wary of.
They will also have lists of income and revenue opportunities, both passive and active, that have proven to be legitimate ways to make money online.
Regardless of the type of, so-called, opportunity the keywords are "buyer beware.
" The most dangerous online opportunities are those that request you to pull out your wallet before starting work or getting the other party to do any work.
Conversely, the opportunities that ask you for any type of up front payment should be considered a scam, until proven otherwise.
Other scams entice you with guaranteed earnings, but rarely use the word guarantee when mentioning payment.
Any enticement for payment, at a later date, regardless of the work involved, should be carefully checked.
If you spend your time and never get paid, that is the same as having money stolen from you.
A legitimate online company will have clear ways of paying you.
Some of them will pay you once a week, if you are over the minimum withdrawal amount.
Typically the honest websites will allow you to with draw money to a bank account when your balance is more than $10 or $20 in value.
In this case, an exception is the Google AdSense system.
This is a legitimate way to make passive income, but the minimum payout amount is $100 and is paid at the end of the month after the month in which you reach the $100 minimum balance.
When writing a blog or posting revenue sharing bookmarks, you can either set up your own website, or use a Web 2 type website.
With your own website, you get 100% of the AdSense revenue, When writing on a Web 2 website you share the revenue with the website owner.
Even with Google AdSense, knowing how to check if a company is legitimate is vitally important.