Today's Essential Terms & Anti-Scam Tips!

Friends:

Here are more essential terms and anti-scam tips, as promised. The sources are the same as stated in yesterday's POST. Do you think that this information is useful to the SOHO community?

Today's Essential Terms:

1. Cookie: Placed on your computer by a Website you've visited, or by an advertiser on that site, these tiny documents work like electronic tags to track what you look at on the Website and, in some cases, to track what other Websites you visit. Cookies are used to identify visitors for customer service, customizing information and preferences, marketing, and other purposes.

2. Internet Service Provider: A company that provides direct access to the Internet, usually for a fee.

Todays Anti-Scam Tips:

1. Get all the details before you pay. A legitimate company will be happy to give you information about exactly what you will be doing and for whom.

2. Find out if there is really a market for your work. Claims that there are customers for work such as medical billing and craft making may not be true. If the company says it has customers waiting, ask who they are and contact them to confirm. You can also ask likely customers in your area (such as doctors for medical billing services) if they actually employ people to do that work from home.

That's all for this POST. Of course, all comments will be highly appreciated!