How do you differentiate between a scam and a genuine offer?

For me, if something seems to good to be true, it's misleading and most likely a scam. Common sense has a lot to do with how I view these offers. I mean, what are the chances someone will pay a person 25.00-75.00 a day doing surveys? It doesn't make sense. If that were true, trust me, they would have all the people they NEED. No over exaggeration, huge sums of money for nothing, etc. all smell of a rotten apple to me

A scam offer tells you that you could be rich a day, week, or maybe even a month and they wouldn't tell you what exactly you are going to do. An honest offer you will tell you that they are not an MLM and they are not assuring you how much you are going to make, they tell you exactly what you have to do, how much you get paid.. basically just like a real job you have your job description.

i normally don't take up any offers. the only reason i came to this site is because my dad recommended it. normally i don't go to places like this, or check out all the bs offers in my email, because you never know how you might get ripped off :D

An offering always has an agenda behind it. Avoid the problem by doing your own shopping rather than waiting for others to approach you. Slim to none that there will be a money makeing plan that will come to you by Email. I suggest that you don't waste your valuable time with those things.

Often it is really hard to tell the difference between a scam or a genuine offer. Usually, it something requires an upfront payment I avoid it because those are usually scams (even if they say you will be reimbursed your inital fees (ie. stuffing envelope scam)). I usually try those that are free so that way even if it is a scam, I have only wasted my time and I cannot be out any more than that. Avoid anything where they want credit card information (this site for instance takes paypal which is a 3rd party, and you can be reimbursed in case of fraud). Finally, my last bit of advice is ask other people online or do a search, if people have been frauded, you can sure bet they will want people to know. Sometimes you will hear a lot of praise before you get to that one comment that is the truth mostly because everyone wants to have refferals. I hope this helps you on your journey of online money making and I hope you have learnt something from my response. I would also like to welcome you to MyLot.

A genuine company will never charge their employees a fee....that's the bottom line...anything else in my opinion is not on the up and up. My mother taught me...If it's too good to be true then it's too good to be true....and you cannot get something for nothing. If you are not willing to work hard for something then you may as well concider it scamming yourself.

I am not sure how one would be able to determine weather a site is the real thing or a scam unless you try it out youself or actually know someone well that has actaully made money off the site . Because I am so leary about getting scammed , I don't bother with any site that requires me to put forth any of my own money at all . I usually read what others have to say before I give it a try and if it sounds good but will make you little money then I usually will give it a try because most of the sites that do pay out are not going to pay out a fortune whereas there are so many other sites that claim one can make a fortune in a month . If this were true everyone would be working from home !!

I usually follow this rule. If its to good to be true...then it is to good to be true. I mean people aren't stupid, they dont just want to give away money, right? Usually what to be cautious of is when the website is offering you an unusually large income for doing something small or simple. Never give away you bank or credit card information. If the cash out amount is too high and its impossible to reach it, then the website is most likely a scam. Hope this helps.