Three Tips Thursday: Researching Companies
December 6, 2007
1. Search on google.com with the name of the company and the word scam behind it. For example: nameofcompany.com scam or name of company scam — if there has been talk on the internet about the company being a scam it’ll likely pull up in the search results.
2. Ask on forums. This is one of the most valuable tools available to the telecommuter. Forums are usually filled with people who have been scammed and now know how to spot a scam. They’ll be able to warn you of a company, share their own experiences, and hopefully prevent you from being scammed. One to check out would be mine at JustOnlineJobs.com.
3. Another way to find information on a company and see if their information adds up, is to pull up their company information on the whois database. You can access the whois database at godaddy.com. If the company says they’ve been online since 2001, they operate out of Texas, and the owner is Jim Doe, you’ll be able to verify the facts via whois. It isn’t going to tell you if something is a scam, but it’s just yet another tool to aid in your research of a company.
If you have a question about researching companies, please leave it in the comments field. I’ll be more than happy to answer them.
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