Saturday 22 November 2014

A work-at-home scheme are an get-rich-quick scam in which a victim are lured by an offer to be employed at home very often doing a few simple task in a minimal amount of time with a large amount of income that far exceeds the market rate for the type of work. Truth purpose of such an offer is for the perpetrator to extort money from the victim either by charging an fee to join the scheme or requiring the victim to invest in products whose resale value are misrepresented.



Work-at-home schemes have been around for decades on the classic "envelope stuffing" scam originating in the U.S.A. during Depression in the 1920s and 1930s. In that scam the worker are offered entry to an scheme wherever they can earns $2 for every envelope they fill. After paying a small $2 fee to join the scheme the victim is sent a flyer template for the self-same work-from-home scheme and the instructed to post these advertisements around their local area – the victim are but "stuffing envelopes" on flyer templates that perpetuate the scheme. Originally found as printed advert in the newspapers and the magazines variants of this scam have expanded into a lot modern media such for television and radio adverts and forum posts with the Internet.




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