$5 per envelope working at home! scam or not?

Question

i saw an ad in an employment newspaper that said you get $5 per envelope working at home. i had to call a number leave my name and address a couple days later i get a letter that says to send $40 and they would provide all the materials and i would get $5 per envelope garanteed. has anyone heard of this before? and has anyone tried it?

Answer 1

scam

Answer 2

This has been going on since the 1970s and yet people continue to send their $40 payments in for the opportunity to make big money stuffing envelopes from home. Can you imagine how much money that company is making for the informational packages, salaries, postage, and mainly the advertising fees to recruit more people??? They are not offering to pay you $5 to stuff an envelope... they are showing you how YOU can get $5 an envelope to solicit your friends to solicit friends to solicit friends with each person paying $40 and you make $5 guaranteed. If you can't get people to sign up, you don't get your $5 but if you do, it's guaranteed. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. This "scam" is not illegal because they are fulfilling their promise to send you the informational package. They will pay you $5 for each envelope you get a reply to. If you do go that route, might I suggest mailing your envelopes to an insane asylum where you can at least make new friends before you end up there???

Answer 3

Clearly it is a total scam. Think about it, how many letters could you do in an hour? Maybe 10, maybe 50? So you think this company that want YOU TO PAY THEM UPFRONT is going to pay you $50-$250 per hour to work from home?

Don't you think it would make more sense for them to hire someone at their office and pay them $15 per hour, or buy a machine that fills envelopes?

This business idea just makes no sense. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is not true.

Answer 4

I've heard of it before. I think if you read the fine print it might say "up to $5.00 per envelope" or something like that. I doubt that it says $5.00 per envelope. Either that, or the process of stuffing the envelope is so complex that you could only do 2 in an hour if that. There's always a catch. An excellent rule of thumb is that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. If this were real, lots of people would be taking the offer and they wouldn't have to advertise it. If you have $40.00 and it won't hurt you too much to lose it, give it a try, but I think you will be taken. Another possibility is that you send in your $40.00 and never hear from them again.

Answer 5

Its a scam. What happens is you have to go out and get the addresses to put on the envelopes you send out. You will be sending them information telling them to do essentially the same thing you are doing, for each envelope that you send out that gets someone to send in $40, you will be paid $5. The result is that every time someone sends in $40 you get $5. But YOU have to come up with the addresses, YOU have to address the envelopes, You have to do all the work. For every 100 you send out you might get 2-3 responses. This is all AFTER you send in YOUR $40. This is a form of chain letter and likely a violation of postal regulations.

Answer 6

Yes its a con, what it is is you pay the £25 and they send you a pack but what they don't tell you is that you have to get others to sign up before they will give you any work. But you have to advertise out of your own money, menaing you lose more nad more and never hit there targets so never get work. Evelope stuffing is now done my machines, which would cost more along the lines of a £5 for 100. No way are they gonna pay someone £500 to do the same job!

Answer 7

Scam
"Envelope stuffing. Promoters usually advertise that, for a "small" fee, they will tell you how to earn money stuffing envelopes at home. Later - when it's too late - you find out that the promoter never had any employment to offer. Instead, for your fee, you're likely to get a letter telling you to place the same "envelope-stuffing" ad in newspapers or magazines, or to send the ad to friends and relatives. The only way you'll earn money is if people respond to your work-at-home ad."

Answer 8

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Answer 9

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Answer 10

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