I was wondering if the web site htp://www.workathomepositionplacement.com was a scam or a legitimate job offer. How can I find out?
It’s a scam. You can find out by looking at its website. Statements like “Earn Up To $98,500 Per Year Working From Your Home Computer” fairly shout “SCAM! SCAM! SCAM!”
I gather you’re young and inexperienced (we all were at some time). Here are some lessons you don’t have to learn the hard way:
There are no “work at home” opportunities that will pay you anything worthwhile (if anything at all) other than those provided by a company you already work for, or provided by yourself as an entrepreneur.
Testimonials about how wonderful a product or service is are concocted to make a sucker out of you, unless you personally know and can vouch for the person giving the testimonial. Most testimonials in ads are probably invented out of whole cloth, as in the person represented doesn’t even exist. How hard is it to write some praises, make up a name, and stick a picture of someone (Lord knows who) next to it?
If something sounds too good to be true, it’s almost certainly not true.
You will do well to ask yourself, “If this is so great why isn’t everybody doing it?”
One good thing to check is the whois information available from the registrar (eg. at www.networksolutions.com). This domain was registered on April 7th of this year, and the person who set it up requested anonymity–business and technical contacts are forwarded through either the registrar or some privacy protection service. This means that whoever runs this website doesn’t want the users to be able to find out who he is, for some reason. For an alleged business website, this is a huge red flag for me. For a personal website, I can understand the owner not wanting people to be able to find his name and phone number. But it seems to me a legitimate business owner would want to be more transparent & accessible.
For example, a whois search on straightdope.com tells you that the domain is registered by The Straight Dope Publishing at 11 E. Illinois St, Chicago, IL 60611, and the administrative and technical contact is Doug Fawley, who can be reached by phone at 312-828-0350, by fax at 312-828-0865, or e-mail at dfawley@chicagoreader.com. The fact that this website makes that information available publically tells me that this is a legitimate business, and I can feel safe sending them the cash next month to renew my Charter Membership. The fact that workathomepositionplacement.com hides this information gives me a good clue that they’re not a legitimate business, and I shouldn’t send them any money or personal information …
I would not go quite so far as to say that, based solely on the fact that they publish a name, an address, and a phone number, it’s therefore safe. It’s certainly far more likely to be safe, compared to a site that hides all their info. But personally, I would do more due diligence before declaring it safe to send money.
Total agreement here.
Well, yes, that was obviously a bit of an exaggeration. I’m sure if we dig around this site enough, we can find more evidence of whether or not it’s reputable. 
How reputable can it be? It lets me post.
Simple rule of thumb is: if they ask you for money, don’t send them any.
Legitimate businesses do not make people pay to work for them.
The setup of the page screams scam. There is no useful information on the first page and it is hard to click away from with a popup trying to keep you there. All high pressure sales sites use these kind of techniques.