Addressing Envelopes

This scam has been around for many years and has it's origins in the 1950's.

These supposed home based businesses are complete scams and should be avoided at all costs.

The people behind these schemes are preying on people's desire to earn extra income from home, usually, but not exclusively, house wives and stay at home mums.

When responding to one of the ads for envelope stuffing, you will be asked for an up-front payment for "stock". This payment will be anything from £20, but can be in the hundreds, depending on how ruthless the scam operators are.

The ads that claim you can run your own home based business are even worse, since they ask you for a registration payment and will involve you having to recruit other gullible people to do the same thing.

In return for your payment, you'll receive a small booklet (or online "course"), together with some copy advertisements of the same sort you fell for.

The scheme is similar to running a chain letter.

You pay a fee and address envelopes to random people, from a phone directory for example.

You send out the ads and ask people to send you money in return for information about how to run your own home based business.

Just to be clear, understand that you will not earn money addressing envelopes, stuffing envelopes or doing anything with envelopes.

With envelope stuffing jobs, you'll be offered a rate of so much per hundred or thousand envelopes.

But ask yourself why such jobs would exists, when for a very low cost, the companies sending out leaflets, could simply ask their printer to stuff the envelopes using their automated machines.

These jobs don't exist. They are pure scams designed to part you with your money.

You've been warned.