Work at home jobs for moms are advertised everywhere. As you know, many of them are scams, but a good deal are also legitimate telecommute opportunities. If you’ve spent any time at all on our site, particularly viewing our daily job leads, then you’ve noticed that we cruise CraigsList on the regular.

This may leave some of you wondering “why CraigsList?” In an industry rampant with scam artists, why continue to use a site widely considered to be a preferred portal for predators, dishonest hucksters and, basically, scam central?

The answer is pretty simple. Amongst all of the bad guys, CraigsList actually offers really good work at home jobs for moms and their community works very hard to police the place to help keep the riff raff in check. If you’ve ever posted an ad on CraigsList only to have it flagged 15 minutes later, you know what we’re talking about. Seriously, though, if not CL, then who?

Sure, we like SimplyHired, Indeed, Monster and the rest of the major and minor job aggregators out there. But, truth be told, it takes more time to field the fluff on those sites than it does on CraigsList! Don’t believe us? Take a gander over to any of those sites and search for work from home jobs for moms using “telecommute”, “remote”, “virtual” or, if you’re really feeling adventurous, “work from home”.

What you’ll find are several pages of ads requiring you to register before you can apply for a job; Ads from bidding sites; And ads placed by recruiters and agencies interested in collecting applicants. Now we’re not saying that any of these are dishonest approaches, but we are saying that real, straight up and down work at home jobs take some serious sifting to find on these sites.

We find CraigsList easier to cull leads from. Most ads are hand-written and offer more direct ways of applying for available positions. We don’t know why this is, but it seems that bidding sites aren’t too keen on CraigsList either, which makes them infinitely easier to avoid. It’s not that bidding sites are bad (they’re actually a very good resource for freelancers and contract workers), it’s just that we try to avoid them as often as possible and, instead, post work at home jobs for moms that don’t tempt moms to ask for less (salary-wise) than a job is worth.

While we never guarantee that scam artists can’t slip past us, we do do our best to spot them before you do and even flag them ourselves when discovered (and we encourage you to follow suit). That said, never just take our word for it. Whether it’s CraigsList or another job source, you MUST diligently research all ads for work at home jobs for moms before offering your personal information, know how to spot scams…and never, EVER pay for a job opportunity!

CraigsList often gets a bad rap, but we wanted to put why we favor them for work at home jobs for moms right out front. So, what do you think? Feel free to agree or disagree below. Also, please share which job board or classified site you favor for work at home jobs and why. Thanks!