Google the words “legitimate work from home jobs” and you’ll find around 4 million listings. Some of the listings truly are legitimate but others are clearly scams. Sara Sutton Fell’s business, FlexJobs, is one of the exceptions. FlexJobs offers legitimate work from home jobs—every company is screened carefully before any of its jobs are posted—that can be done from home.

FlexJobs has had to overcome a few misconceptions (I admit I had a few doubts), thanks to less-than-honest scam artists out there who are ready to cheat anyone. Fell offers a few questions to make it easier to tell whether an online placement company is legitimate or not. [Read more...]