Work From Home Stuffing Envelopes: Is It Real?
The work from home stuffing envelopes ads might sound like easy money, but most are scams. In fact, the Federal Trade Commission has pursued charges against 77 envelope stuffing schemes in 17 states and the scam continues to be a problem on the Internet.
Envelope stuffing is a classic work at home scam where people are tricked into forking over their money for a starter kit. The unknowing victim pays for the kit, hoping to receive envelopes to stuff for money, but instead receives a set of instructions on how to scam other people with the stuffing envelopes from home 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, it’s best to take another route instead. Sadly, people are scammed by the envelope stuffing gag every day and some people have even given out personal information, including their social security number.
