If you're looking for an online data entry position, you need to be very careful. There are a lot of job scams advertising what appear to be legitimate positions. Work-from-home job scams are perhaps the most common online scam.

For the five years ending AARP reports there were over 100,000 fraud complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission by job seekers. These include 58,368 complaints about opportunities to work from home or start a business.

That's because many data entry jobs are entry-level and don't require experience to get started. It's easy to promote the positions as an easy way to get started working online and make money.

When you hear about a work-from-home job in data entry that sounds too good to be true (for example, the position might promise high pay for very few hours of work), it probably is.