Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Easily Identify Work At Home Scams

By Dirk Andersen

To begin to easily identify scams you need to be made aware of the types of opportunities that are usually scams. Once you have a good grasp on these, you will be fully prepared to know a scam when you come across it.

The three main types of scams that we are going to talk about is envelope filling, home assembly and chain letters or emails.

Envelope stuffing sounds so great. I consider when I was younger I got a communication that said they would pay me one dollar cash for every envelope I filled and mailed. I was so enthusiastic, send them to me baby and I will do more than you can imagine. The suggestion was that they would send me 300 envelopes and letters, all I had to do was fill them and send them. I just could hardly wait, I used to pace the floor waiting for the mail man. After about a week went by and at last my 300 envelopes finally came I was fully disappointed. What a line of crap. They sent me 300 envelopes and 300 copies of the same sales letter I had just fallen for. The way it worked was I was to place an ad in the paper and ask people to send me a dollar for postage and handling for the free information on this scam. The information was the sales letter I got, and then if they were dumb enough to fall for it the business I paid was going to rake in $20 for the package. The though, of course, crossed my mind to modify the sales letter to my address, but even then, would I really make money? I know I wouldn't have felt very good about it.

Home assembly works the same way. I tried to do this too. I ordered a package for $20 for this duck light switch cover craft assembly. I paid about twenty dollars for it also. They sent all the supplies to make the switch covers, and they were going to pay me $3 for each one I made. The stupid assembly instructions were so complex that it took me 3 hours to make one that sucked, plus I still had to paint it, then get it to pass their quality control examination. Basically I could make about twenty bucks per day if I worked 24/7 and made these flawlessly. I gave up after I spent an hour sawing out the first one.

Chain Letters, I never fell for these, but they are scams. Anything you get that says to add your name to the list and then redistribute the information is a scam. Very few people will follow up on this and actually do it. Most will just remove your name, add theirs and then mail out the letters. You get no money, your name is gone and the other person probably gets no money either. They try to curb this by saying it doesn't work if you don't mail a dollar to everyone above you, but I can tell you it doesn't work then either.

Anything in this world that sounds too good to be true almost certainly is. The above information is dedicated to those who have received envelope stuffing, home assembly or a chain letter. You now know these are absolute scam material. Don't fall for this material; seek out a legitimate online opportunity. - 15465

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