Online data entry work is it a scam?

I have been looking for online data entry work ever since I started surfing the internet. But still I have not been successful to find genuine data entry work. I tried for days and days looking for genuine work but never did I find a single website offering the type of work that I was looking for. And on the way I got scammed twice paying $50 dollars each. They offered me simple copy pasting jobs and when I registered myself with their program it was totally something else, they wanted me to do copy paste email address of people whom I knew and the recipients of those emails should open the mail and also click on the link that has been provided in it's contents for me to get paid.
Then I was so furious and wanted a refund but they never replied my emails so that was the end of my poor $50. Never again did I pay for anything that promised me any work online but I was still obsessed to find some kind of work online and my search continued again for days and days. But here I am still without any online data entry work. But I came across a few sites that really offer genuine work but there you got to bid for it. There are all type of work such as programming, SEO work, data entry, Web designing and bookkeeping, but the real problem there is you hardly get your bid through with all the Indian and Filipino workers under bidding, still I have not lost faith I will keep on looking to get hired for a data entry job no matter how long its going to take.

From what I learn t from all these years ;

1.All get rich quick programs are scams.

2.Never pay any money to be employed or contracted,

3.What you see is not what you get.

4.Some sites are so very inviting, don't get carried away.

5.Think for days if not weeks before you invest in any program.

6.Never be fooled by the looks of a site.

7.If you give out your email watch out if they start to send you frequent email messages chances
are, the site is a scam.

8.Always report scam sites since if you don't report who will?

9.Screen the relevant site for scams.

10.Never pay for training or special software needed for the job, if they need to get the job done let them pay for it or let them deduct it from your earnings.

11.Big money does not come easy, never ever get carried away,


Finally my quest is not over yet, so if anyone out there has found a rare breed of a site or two providing genuine data entry work from home online jobs, please feel free to share your information. And also the once who have been cheated, mislead, ripped off, scammed or what ever you call it make a comment here!!!!
cheers

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