Beware of Work At Home Scams

There are so many schemes of scam and fraud in the internet. You may see their ads in the websites and even in your emails. The ads or emails will usually convince you to pay money to earn big and easy money even without experience.

Common Internet Fraud And Scam Schemes

Envelope stuffing

An email or ad says that you will earn an easy money by just stuffing envelopes. If you respond to this scam, you will be required to pay for materials. Then you will be sent a ad flyers you have to put up around your neighborhood or community. Then, interested parties responding to your ads will send you $2 in a pre-addressed, pre-paid mail envelope. You will stuff this envelope with another pack of flyers and send it to them.

Assembly work at home

An ad or email will tell you that you can earn big money by assembling toys or craft items, experience not necessary. If you respond to this scam, you will be encouraged to buy the starter kit to assemble craft projects or toys with a promise that the finished product will be bought back at a very high price. But when have finished the assembly, you will be told that "your work does not meet the specifications" even if you have perfectly done it.

These scammers just want to sell their starter kits. To buy back the assembled products is just a bait. So, you will be left with assembled craft items with no one to sell them to.

Multi-Level Marketing or Pyramid Scheme

An email or an ad will tell you that you will earn big money by recruiting others, no experience needed. If you respond to this scam, you will be told to pay for monthly membership and/or for some training materials on how to recruit others.

Being a member, you will earn commission when you recruited other people and from the people they recruited up to nth-level deep. The emphasis of this scheme is only to recruit people and pay for membership.

The losers here are the people at the bottom when the market is saturated or when the people stop believing this scam but the few people on the top end up instant millionaires.

Chain Letter

An email will tell you to send money to the people on the list at a given amount. Then, remove the name on the top of the list and place your name at the bottom. Then, forward the emails to your friends, acquaintances or to anybody who supposed to do the same thing. There may be a warning or threat if you did not forward the letter to others. If you follow this email, you will be a loser. Educated people will not waste their time responding to this kind of scam.

Telecommuting Jobs

An email or ad will tell you that you will get a an info pack including list of legitimate companies hiring for people who wants to work at home as typists, medical transcriptionist, translators, designers, etc. when you pay a specified amount of money. But when you get the info pack, you will only discover that the companies are hiring workers living within their area or the hiring requirement is already outdated.

This is a Work At Home Schemes Advisory from US Federal Trade Commission.

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