Is Stuffing Envelopes A Scam?

October 25, 2009 by admin
Filed under: Work At Home 

We have received some emails asking this very question. The simple answer is YES!

This is one of the oldest work from home scams out there. The ad or website promises you will make money stuffing envelopes. Some promise $3-$4 per envelope, some promise even more than that. They all promise plenty of work and that you can do this on your own time.
They also promise that there is tons of work, leaving you believing that you will be able to stuff your way to riches working from home.

Trust us this is a scam. If you step back and think about it, nothing makes sense. There is no way that sending out mail advertisements could be this profitable. To pay you even $3 an envelope sent, they would have to make sales on almost every advertisement you sent out.

Normally this scam makes its money by getting you to send in a registration fee. They always put something like: This money is to screen for the really interested people that will do the job or something like that. You send the money and they send you some bogus information on a website that tells you the secret to this business. The secret is you mail out affiliate offers and try to make money off of people getting the offers, coming to your affiliate website, and purchasing an offer. You can do this without having to pay the registration fee to get this crazy secret!

Another way this works is you send the registration fee and they send you items to fill out and seal up in an exact way that they specify. You send all the envelopes back and they claim that you didn’t do exactly what they asked. So not only did they make money from your registration fee, but you also did free work. Meaning they will send the envelopes out with the advertisements you worked hard on, and they will get all the money made from people receiving the mail buying the affiliate products.

We have also noticed that there is a type of never ending chain scam. Meaning you send your registration fee and they send you information on how to set up an ad on classified ads sites and you then try to get people to send you a registration fee for the same information.

Anyway you slice it, IT IS A SCAM!

There are plenty of ways to make legit money on this website. Mailing out junk mail is a way to try to attract new visitors to a website, but it is not very effective unless you get people to do the work for you for free. This is what this scam is. Think about how much junk mail you get in a week. How many times have you received this mail and jumped straight over to your computer and ordered something?

So stick to better programs and sites, and stay away from this scam.

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11 Comments on Is Stuffing Envelopes A Scam?

  1. Primary Work at Home on Thu, 26th Nov 2009 12:19 pm

    2. I read a lot about this type of job and I am always in hesitant about it. Thanks for sharing this article. It is a big help.

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  9. DataEntryJobs on Wed, 9th Dec 2009 6:12 am

    10. Hy!

    This article really makes sence and is really informative.Would You let me use this information on my site? I will link back to your blog?

    Let me know

  10. Get Paid To Stuff Envelopes on Sun, 31st Jan 2010 8:41 pm

    11. Never fall to a paid to stuff envelopes scheme. It is obviously a scam and there are lots of testimonial to this. I for myself have been scammed years back when I’m just starting Internet business.

  11. MARIA G.GUTIERREZ on Sun, 14th Mar 2010 5:49 pm

    12. HI MY NAME IS MARIA BUT I GO BY MY MEDDLE NAME LUPE I HAD ALWAYS WANTED TO TRY THIS AT HOME JOB STUFFING ENVELOPES I AM A SINGAL GRANDMOTHER RAISING 3 GRANDKIDS I GOT LAID OFF FROM MY JOB AN I HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO FIND ANY JOBS SO MY LAST CHOICE WAS TO SEE IF IT TRUE ABOUT THIS ENVELOPE JOB. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING SINCER MARIA(LUPE)GUTIERREZ

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