Do internet data entry jobs actually work?

First of all, there are several jobs where people need to pay upfront for either drug tests, training classes, or whatever. In no way is making a payment to your new corporation unheard of or an alarm bell. Second, do you actually know someone who has been scammed from an internet job? It is not a pyramid scheme and has never been publicly denounced as a "beware" all of you out there... Third, if it was just a scheme, then why are particular sites allowed to advertise their business in newspapers and other medias? If people are being scammed, then they would go to the police, presumably, and then the site would be in big trouble with the law.

They are two different matters- no legitimate corporation ever says to a prospective employee "Pay us money to get this job, and then we'll pay you money". And no, a franchise is not the same thing because you are actually buying a business right. The distinctions you raise are real, and yes, there are many victims of internet scamming jobs: "Stuff our envelopes" "Type our papers" ""Read our emails!" "Just send us $50 to get started on your path to financial independence as our internet camera security guard!!!" Also, scams are allowed to carry on for months, sometimes years, before the authorities do anything about it- extended car warranties, international lotteries, buy Mongolian acreage, donate to the Amorican Red Cross (mis-spelling intentional). As for advertising in newspapers, so do prostitutes, psychics, and homeopathic "healers".

But like my neighbors who donate to charities that are fake despite all the evidence I have presented to them ("THere are no blind soldiers of WWI left to donate to! This guy operates out of his parent's basement!" and "The car warranty you just bought for $3500 is a scam that moves from state to state. Look here! It covers nothing!") few will listen, many will be taken.