As known that nowadays there are too many only money making site are scam. That is a simple way to judge on those scam site, most of them are mentioned that monthly good earning without working on it, also they will ask for registration fee. For my opinion, freelancer job will NEVER ask for any registration fee.
Ont the other hand, i suggest those online money making newbie shall always use google search. Google search is one of the best tool for you to find out the scam. Just key in the website URL & scam (example: abc.com & scam), then you can get alot of information about the website from public.
Back to the topic, i work as part time online freelancer for few years, and all the way i stick with freelancer.com . They are one of the popular freelance site provide tons of opportunity for the freelancer. You can find the job that you are interested and bid on it. Once you get chose, then you can start your work and get paid when completed. The payment system control by them is protecting both freelancer and buyer.
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