Envelope Stuffing Scam
The envelope stuffing scam advertises large profits for stuffing envelopes at home. If you respond to these ads you will likely be asked to pay a “small fee” in order to receive your instructions.
The instructions are typically not instructions to stuff envelopes, but to place envelope stuffing ads in newspapers or magazines.
There are many variations to this scam, however they all require you to spend money on materials and advertising.
There are virtually no legitimate envelope stuffing jobs, as most large businesses have mechanized mass mailing techniques or send them to a mailing house.
The typical ad reads "$300 Weekly Guaranteed! Work two hours daily at home stuffing envelopes."
Don't fall for this scam as you will be disappointed as this type of money can't be made stuffing envelopes.
How Does the Envelope Stuffing Scam Operate?
This is the most common work-at-home scam, says the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. You send money and think you will get sent information about earning money by stuffing envelopes at home.
What you actually get are instructions to sell this scheme to others by placing ads in newspapers to entice new victims. You make nothing unless you recruit others to work for you.
Most ads promise hundreds of dollars a week just for stuffing envelopes. Some even promise to pay $4 or $5 per envelope stuffed! They usually require a "registration fee" of $10 to $100 to get started.
If you send them your money, they will then send you a copy of the ad you originally responded to, along with the wording to a classified ad, telling people about how much money they can make stuffing envelopes, and to send a self-addressed stamped envelope for information.
When you receive someone's money, you send them a copy of the ad etc.
According to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, "In practically all businesses, envelope stuffing has become a highly mechanized operation using sophisticated mass mailing techniques and equipment which eliminates any profit potential for an individual doing this type of work at home.
The Inspection Service knows of no work-at-home promotion that ever produces income as claimed.
The envelope stuffing scam is essentially a pyramid schemes or chain letters combined with a "how-to" element.
These ads are targeting house-bound people of limited income, such as mothers with young children and the disabled, who find the convenience of working from home very attractive.
One scammer who charged from $10 to $45 for information on how to earn good money working at home by stuffing envelopes and stapling booklets, managed to defraud about $200,000 from thousands of people from around the US!
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