There are several ways to apply for legitimate work at home jobs. First you can apply for a call center job at ChaCha just visit the website to apply. You can also contact FTD florists or Uhaul they both offer work at home jobs.
Not all home internet jobs are scams. Many reliable jobs exist in reservation gathering. Airlines and hotels have a lot of people who work online from home to organize and book reservations for vacations.
There are literally thousands of legitimate home jobs available now. You can work from home on a desktop computer, or anywhere you like with a laptop and high speed internet.
I recommend the Work-at-Home Moms' Forum at http://www.wahm.com/forum/ . They have forums for work-at-home jobs that are legit. Also look on mturk.com and search for requesters like AboutUs Mechanical Turk Operators, Paul Pullen, and Andy K.
It is not very difficult to find legitimate work at home jobs if common sense is applied. Avoid any jobs which promise unusually large payouts for little to no work; many work at home jobs will pay minimum wage or slightly over. Most legitimate offers will not require initial payments for a list of jobs to complete and will have company names, phone support, and established online presence.
Axiom Data Services, Amazon's Mechanical Turk and Capital Typing are all legitimate data processing jobs that can be done from home. There are no copy writing work from jobs available.
In order to find out if there are any free work at home jobs you would need to do some searching. You can search on the internet, in the phone book, or by asking friends and family.
There are a lot of ways to get a work from home jobs, but almost of them are not profitable. Just 1 in a million internet users is a lucky one and is doing real money on internet,rest of them are working 24 hours per day or just doing cents.
I found a lot of good ones in Work at home forums. But there are a lot of scams it took me over 2 years to find something legit so always be careful.
Some of the best work at home jobs are going to be internet based, obviously. Working for a company via online internet access is great. Responding to customer complaints or offering work-from-home medical billing specialists is a hot field now for work from home. Also, customer service/surveys and web-internet design companies based primarily off of computers. Give those a try!
Yes, most "work at home" offers, especially those that you find online are scams. The best way to find a legit at home offer is through a friend. I have found two legit offers, both which needed money up front, but because of my friends already being involved, I did it and am now making decent money with it.
Out of the many online work-from-home sites, in my experience the best one for freelance work is oDesk. They are accredited by the Better Business Bureau and offer legitimate freelance opportunities in a variety of skill sets.