Essential Terms & Scam Awareness Tips

Today's POST takes us in a somewhat different direction. It deals with some computer-related business terms (which all SOHO owners should know), and shares some tips to help SOHO-ers avoid scams when prospecting for work-at-home opportunities.

Today's Essential Terms:

1. Browser: software that allows you to travel the World Wide Web. Common browsers include: Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.

2. Encryption: scrambling data into a private code so that it can be securely transmitted and only decoded by the intended recipient.

(These terms are from: http://www.nclnet.org/technology/essentials/glossary.html).

Todays Anti-Scam Tips:

1. Be cautious about emails offering work-at-home opportunities. Many unsolicited emails are fraudulent.

2. Know who you’re dealing with. The company may not be offering to employ you directly, only to sell you training and materials and to find customers for your work.
(The source of these tips is: http://www.fraud.org/tips/internet/workathome.htm).

Tomorrow's POST will be similar to today's. More essential terms, and more anti-scam tips!

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