A quick look at any Internet-based job search results, be it on craigslist or on another job site, will reveal a host of job offers enticing you to Make Money from Home quickly and easily, raking in hundreds of dollars a day with just an email account and some quick thinking.

Even the newspaper classifieds have been filled with these ads, offering at-home data processing jobs or money-by-email offers. Though a very few of these make money from home ads are legitimate, the grand share of them are scams. How do I know this? Because I was caught up in one of them myself.