Are the advertisements you see about Google jobs Data entry online and work from home legitimate?

Answer 1

Many of these too-good-to-be-true jobs are fraudulent. Be careful of any business that asks you for a deposit for equipment, materials, etc. at any time. One technique fraudulent businesses use is to send you a cheque in advance for a large sum of money. You deposit the cheque into your account. Your bank would credit you the money and the sum would appear in your account. However, your bank has only placed that money there conditionally; it is still attempting to collect that money from the cheque issuer. While this verification process goes on, the business will ask you for a deposit of some kind, typically much less than the deposit you "see" in your account. So you pay the business a deposit. A few days later, you find that the business' cheque to you is NSF, but your cheque to the business has cleared. You will have lost the deposit you paid the business.