People who want to be self-employed look for home based businesses that could help them make money with the option of spending time at their own will. Such people tend to look for business opportunities online and end up in a scam or two. There are many home based business scams out there and more often people get trapped in it due to their greediness to make money fast. It is this psyche of the people that makes them get into such home based business scams.Envelope stuffing, product assembling, surveys, job listing and many such scams are there. These offers are too good to believe that you tend to spend your valuable money in buying these kits in order to get started with your home based business. You may not know that these scammers need to sell only their kits and get money out of it and nothing else. You will be also spreading the news about such kits to improve their business!These online business scams are targeting the at home moms, unemployed, the elderly, and those who want to make quick money. You should know that there is nothing like quick money. The money you get will be based on the amount of legitimate work you do. These scammers promise you hundreds of dollars or even thousands of dollars in a single day! You start calculating the huge amount you get out of that home based business and in the end, end up spending a few hundred dollars in that useless startup kit.Network marketing online is one of the other home based business scams you should be aware of. It is the multi-level marketing with the new name. In this you buy the so-called product and get to sell to others too. People who buy from you would be selling to other people who are interested in it. Actually nobody will be using that product but keep on selling to others. What you get is a percentage of sales that is done by others.Home based data entry work is another scam to look for. They promise you to make hundreds by just filling up a few forms daily and that working for one or two hours daily. Do you think you can make hundreds of dollars by just filling up a few forms? Definitely not. They sell you a kit that promises to have the list of companies that get you data entry work and most often they are outdated and of information that is useless.If you find any offer that is too good to believe then chances are that it could be one of the other scams!