Work at home scams

Here's the fast and easy way to spot a work at home scam

One of many ways to find real part time work at home jobs or home business opportunities is to study work at home scams...

... Here's why -- you instantly knock out at least 90% of all internet business scams and focus on legitimate work from home opportunities instead.

A Nasty, Nasty Marketing Tactic that Does NOT Get Enough Publicity...

Whether this tactic qualifies as a scam has to be decided on a case by case basis by Attorneys and the Federal Trade Commission. But personally I have helped MANY people avoid losing money to this tactic and seen way too many people LOSE money to this tactic.

I call it "hidden negative option marketing" and you can see a huge discussion from many people who were surprised by $70+ monthly charges showing up on their credit card in this discussion called

Google Money Tree Complaints.

I highly recommend you read it both for the information and to see a great example of a lot of people coming together to help each other out. I've seen some examples of this tactic where people could potentially end up with nearly $300/month in charges - typically without understanding why they're being charged! THESE are the types of so-called "opportunies" we want to keep you AWAY from!

Here's my up-to-the-minute list of work at home scams that never seem to go away. Once you pick up the ways these scams operate, it's easy to find work at home jobs that are not scams.

	Work at home scam #1:
	Envelope Stuffing

Can you really find legitimate envelope stuffing jobs or is it just envelope stuffing scams in disguise?

Wouldn't it be awesome to get paid to stuff envelopes... as many as you can... and get paid by at the same time? If only this was a legitimate work at home opportunity...

Do these work from home stuffing envelope headlines look and sound familiar?

- "Work From Home 4 Hours Per Day Stuffing Envelopes From Home"
- "Envelope Stuffing Jobs -- work at home and make $1,500 per week"
- "Earn $1,576 per week with this legitimate envelope stuffing job"

... And so on.

It's so easy to get caught up in the idea of a "work at home stuffing envelope" business. The pay sounds great. And you're a pro at it... you've been stuffing envelopes all of your life (paying bills) The promise of having envelope stuffing companies sending you boxes of flyers and promotions and paying you for the work sounds awesome.

Unfortunately, you're most likely to be caught up in an envelope stuffing scam.

Here's the real deal behind the envelope stuffing jobs claims:

You're offered a house based jobs opportunity making money stuffing envelopes from the comfort of your home. Once you agree to send a "small" startup fee and you get your feet wet, you quickly find out the promoter never had any employment to offer. Instead, you get a list of instructions to advertise your own envelope stuffing job. This is merely a twist of the chain letter scam... you know -- just get 7 people to send you cash through the mail and before you know it, you're rich. While this sounds great, reality is it doesn't work. Even worse, this is illegal -- promoters of envelope stuffing scams can (and do) go to jail.

The typical envelope stuffing work from home opportunity always benefits the scammer -- collecting a "start up" fee of anywhere from $20.00 to $35.00.

Here's what you're not told about the classic envelope stuffing scam:

Introducing the most expensive piece of paper...
In order to get into the envelope stuffing business, you're instructed to pay for a "startup kit" costing you up to $35.00 (or more). Once your fee is "processed", this envelope stuffing job opportunity "kit" is nothing more than a single-side advertising template promoting the exact same work from home stuffing envelopes job you've "applied" for.

Here's the catch
You're given the impression that there's no selling involved -- that you're paid up to $12.00 to $15.00 an hour folding flyers and stuffing envelopes. Instead, that startup fee reveals the truth about envelope stuffing -- and the envelope stuffing "kit" reveals the truth... you get paid only when you promote this scam to others.

Is envelope stuffing work from home illegal?
According to the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), If you're involved in promoting envelope stuffing jobs that are not legititmate work from home opportunities,

Consider these points about work from home stuffing envelope opportunties:

- Most envelope stuffing companies comfort you with 100% money-back guarantees. But that's just talk... good luck trying to get your money returned. These envelope stuffing companies are quick to take your money, but eerily silent when you ask for a refund. I've posted a snapshot of the numerous complaints -- look at this:

- A growing number of seemingly unbiased review sites warn you about envelope stuffing scams, only to lure you into another scam... for example -- paid surveys (which by the way aren't full-blown scams, but they're far from guaranteed money makers).

- Modern lettershops and printshops use automated machines to fold and stuff up to 32 flyers into an envelope for literally pennies. And I understand these machines assemble thousands per hour. At best, you can assemble one envelope (folding, collating, etc.) every 3 minutes if you're super quick... and if you're being paid over $15.00 an hour, the math tells us that's 75 cents each. Why in the world would a company pay more than 50 times the price (and get thousands processed in less time than it take you to assemble 10)?

Update: Scam warning from the United States Postal Service. Being a victim of the scam explained in the following video could land you in jail!

	Work at home scam #2:
	Home typers scam

Do legitimate home typist positions really exist?

Almost everywhere you turn these days, it seems that you see ads claiming that many companies are looking for home typists. But are they for real?

In a word, "no". While there are legitimate companies that do use typists from home, your chances of finding one of these companies by answering one of these adds is just about zero.

If you do answer one of these ads, what you'll receive is an "application to be a home typist" telling you that you must fill out this application and send it back with an "application fee", usually of between $19.00 to $79.00. And if you do send in the application with the fee, you still have virtually no chance of finding a home typing job this way, because typically all you'll receive is a bunch of sheets of photocopied paper of businesses along with their addresses and phone numbers that "might" be able to benefit from someone typing at home. In other words, the businesses listed aren't necessarily actively looking for homeworkers, and in fact, probably don't hire people to work from home.

	Work at home scam #3:
	Paid to assemble crafts at home

Are companies looking for home assembly work?

Generally you will see an ad for doing assembly or craft work at home. The catch is that the company will either require you to pay hundreds of dollars for supplies. Or more typically, they'll charge you a "one-time application fee" for you to be "accepted into their program."

The biggest part of the scam is that they'll say that the companies will pay you a certain amount of money for each product you assemble in accordance to their standards. But when you turn in the products and try to get paid, the companies don't pay you, because they'll claim that none of the products were "up to their standards".

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