THE TOP TEN WORST WORK AT HOME SCAMS
THE TOP TEN WORST WORK AT HOME SCAMS Part 1
1. Envelope stuffing
Earn $300-$800 a week and more!!!! So easy, no experience
necessary. However we need to make sure that only serious
workers apply so there will be a "one-time fee for the
enrollment costs are well as material that we will send you to
mail out. Send a SASE to this address and start earning today!
Does that sound familiar? To begin with I will tell you that if
you see this or anything like it run a mile away. Do not think
that this sounds good and it's only a measly $29.99 so I can
afford to lose that if it's a scam. Just say to yourself, "It is
a scam." Envelope stuffing has been around for decades and while
they have slowly evolved, it is always the same. Just think for
a second, why would any want to pay you $2-$4 to stuff an
envelope and pay you over $500 a month or more, when they can
buy themselves a machine that will stuff the envelopes for them?
The machines are a few hundred dollars. In the long they would
actually save money, by not paying someone else to stuff them.
How the scam works: You see an add similar to the one I wrote
above. You send in the "small" fee which can be anywhere from $5
up to $100 or more. You sit at home waiting for your package
thinking that you can put those brochures, pamphlets or
postcards. The only thing your usually getting is a one page
instruction telling you to put the same ad in a newspaper and
wait for some sucker to grab the bait like you did. There are
also the one in which you are told to send $1 to everyone on a
list, usually 5 people, put your name in the first slot and take
off the #5 name and send out these letters to those people. You
will then be getting all these people sending you $1, and before
you know it you'll be a millionaire. No you won't, do I have to
tell you this is a scam? A scam that long ago moved onto the
internet and is now usually played with sites such as Paypal,
and Stormpay. Same scam different twist. You just send $1 or
more to these 5 or 10 accounts and you will soon have money
flooding into your Paypal account. Scam. This to me is just
another for of MLM. Which is another scam to flush your money
down the toilet.
2. Multi-Level Marketing (MLM)
"Lose 40 pounds in less than a month. Feel better with this
miracle juice. Tone up with this miracle cream etc, etc.....Once
you try it, you will love it and even better if you get others
to sign up under you; you can make thousands a month."
This dear friends is known as Multi-Level Marketing (MLM). There
are so many that I can't get through even 1% of them. The usual
basis of MLM is you see some product which is often, not worth
the money, untested, unproven that you will get the results it
claims to give you, and most importantly it might be dangerous.
Just think, would you buy a bottle of green juice off someone on
a street corner because they claim it will make you shed 100
pounds? Now the MLM I will talk about here is the "product"
scam. This one is you are buying a product or joining up to work
for them selling there product. If you buy the product they will
tell you that you can get rich if you get others to sign up. You
will be there sponsor and when they join to sell you 40% of the
product price and if you sign up another you get 20% of there
product price and so on. Or you need to sign up for the gold or
platinum membership and make even more money, just $199.99 or
more and don't worry you'll make that money back in no time.
I've even seen some so ridiculous due to the fact that your
purchasing all these products to try and make even more money,
not realizing your losing money or at least no making any, just
paying a little less for the less than worth it so called
miracle product. The other part of a product scam is your not
using or even buying it, your trying to make money solely by
getting others to sign up. All those ads you see? On tv, cheap
magazines, free newspapers, email and all over the web, well
those are the people trying to get YOU to sign up and make them
a commission. All you will be doing is trying to recruit more
and more people to sell this product and earn some money. Some
do it, but it's very difficult and over 90% are scams.
3. Data entry/Claim Processing/Name Compiler
There are many other names for this. The whole point of it is to
work at home as a typist/data entry worker. These people usually
claim that they have so much work that they need help and its
cheaper to get someone to work from home than to hire another
computer or expand there onsite business. In these scams there
is always a fee for the application which can be $30-$1000's.
Yes thousands. The companies will claim that to do there work
you need to buy their special software. You can't download it or
buy it anywhere else, it has to come from them. And once again
you will make back your money in no time. Yeah, sure you will.
Just think of how fast you would make back that money if you
flushed it down the toilet. Unlike some of these scams there are
real work from home jobs for typists. They usually will not
charge you to join. Just think about it. Why would you pay
someone to let you work for them? Think about you going on a job
interview, they tell you that you have the job, but they just
need $300 and then you can start. Most of us would leave in a
hurry. But for some reason reading it on paper seems to make
sense for too many unwitting victims. I personally know more
than 15 companies that hire typists and pay them to actually
type. I filled out some applications and read the requirements
for others. I was disappointed but pleasantly surprised to learn
there were requirements and that I was turned down for the job.
Most legitimate companies need workers who can type more than
60-80 wpm or even more kps (keys per second). As well as someone
who actually has 2 years or more of experience usually as a
secretary or administrative assistant. Name compiler is scam #1
all over again. Instead of stuffing envelopes, you are sent
materials, after you pay the fee of course, which will tell you
to post the same ad you responded to all over the net in hopes
of getting others to sign up. Your just spamming others and
that's it. No companies pay for a compiler anymore because it
can be done electronically now, so theres no need for a
compiler/typist for this sort of job. The worst is the claim or
payment processor. What they will have you do is not just
unethical but it's usually an illegal operation they pull
innocent people into. Most won't even know it until it's too
late. This scam works on many levels. If you answer the ad
through email they can put malware on your computer steal your
identity and sell it on the black market. You will be lured into
thinking you are processing claims for a legitimate foreign
company and will receive %20 or more commission on each payment
processed. You then have to wire the money from your bank,
western union or money gram. You are actually handling
counterfiet money orders and/or check. You will have a lot to
process as they need you to send as many as possible quickly
before the bank or police find out and stop it. You are working
for them, but your actually laundering money and all you will
end up with is being an unwitting victim of a very big crime.
With the criminals overseas you will be left holding the bag.
There was a story about a woman who is facing charges on a
similar scam. The twist? She is the victim. I feel that since
the prosecutors can't get the real criminals well, she's taking
the blame. She will more than likely go to jail because of scam.
4. Work At Home Lists You only need to think about work at home
opportunities and you will find a whole lot of scams coming up
trying to sell you a list. Don't do it. There are many places
that post legitimate work at home jobs. Try work at home mom
forums. Introduce yourself, meet people like you, who will be
happy to point you toward the right direction. These lists are
usually crap. You pay and IF they send you anything or send you
to members room, all you will be most likely to find are out of
date or broken links from companies no longer hiring. Everyone
would like to work from home. When there posted in places for
free people rush towards them, so how long do you think it is
before the company has got the people they want and isn't
looking anymore?
5. Pyramid Schemes The pyramid scheme or "matrix" is one of the
oldest scams and against the law around most of the WORLD. A new
variation is now on ebay. I've seen them all over. You type in
ipod and thousands of listings come up. You will however notice
some selling very cheaply, say $40. When you read up on it, you
are told not to bid but go to this website or email the seller
and find out how to get an ipod or playstation cheap or even
free if you purchase things like mp3's or ebooks from the site.
You will usually see a list of names on a page. These are all
people like you who have signed up for this "great deal". You
add your name to the list and your on the bottom of that list.
You make purchases and get your name moved up. You can also move
up faster if you recruit other people to sign up and purchase or
sign up others, and on and on it goes. When your name gets to
the top of the list, you usually will get the ipod, playstation,
cellphone or whatever else it is that you signed up for. Now
some do get the item. But this is still a pyramid scheme and
many won't even get the items they purchased or the free item
they signed up for.
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Written by Marsha James mjames20@cfl.rr.com
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