Work from home stuffing envelopes ads might look appealing to someone who’s desperate for cash, but most of them are scams. The Federal Trade Commission has pursued charges against 77 envelope stuffing schemes in 17 states and the scam continues to be big a problem on the Internet.
The envelope stuffing scam usually involves a starter kit. The kit isn’t free. The victim pays for the kit, in hopes of receiving envelopes to stuff for money, but instead receives a set of instructions on how to scam other people with the same scheme. In some cases, people send in their money for a kit and never even receive anything at all in return.
The concept of stuffing envelopes from home for money doesn’t even make sense financially for a company. Envelopes are really cheap and it would cost a company far less money to stuff the envelopes themselves, rather than pay a stranger to do it. If you really want to work from home, explore other options like freelance writing, virtual assistant work or telemarketing.
Sadly, people are scammed by the envelope stuffing scheme every day and some people have even given out personal information, including their social security number. This scam is nothing new. It started as an offline mail scam over twenty years ago and has now become a bigger problem on the Internet.