Work at Home
10/28/2008
"Earn money at home" schemes all have two things
in common. They require you to send money or buy something before you begin
work. Basicly there are three types of "work at home" schemes: where
you provide a service, where you provide a product or where you buy a directory
of companies that hire "at-home" workers.
The first type of scheme catches your attention in the want
ads you can earn as much as $500.00 per week stuffing envelopes in the comfort
of your own home. When you respond to the ad, always a box or suite number, you
are requested to send $19.95 for more information on this "amazing"
money making program. Upon receipt of your package, you are told to simply do
what they have done - take out an ad in the local paper telling people they can
earn money by stuffing envelopes and charging them $19.95 when they respond to
your ad. To the best of our knowledge, there are no legitimate companies that
offer employment by stuffing envelopes. Manual envelope stuffing is too costly
and is done in great volume by high speed machines.
The second type of work at home scheme also uses the want
ads and entices you to earn money assembling products in your own home. Once
you have contacted these companies, they will sell you the materials with a
promise to buy the assembled product back. The more product you purchase the
greater the amount of earnings. There is, however, one catch - the company
never buys the assembled product back. The usual excuse is that the assembly
does not meet their quality standards.
The third type of scheme offers you a directory of companies
that will hire you to do overflow computer work at home. These directories are
usually from the United States and sell for $60.00 U.S. In our investigation,
we have learned that the directory is no more than a computer database of
Windsor companies and there is no way of knowing if any of the listed companies
need you to do any work. In other word, you would be able to go through the
yellow pages and make contacts yourself.
Finally some enterprising individual has created a directory
of "work at home" opportunities, by simply recording all the want ads
and sells this directory
for $49.95, through, your guessed it, the want ads.