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Examples of Work-from-Home Scams

As many consumer affairs advocates, like Clark Howard have said, almost ALL work-from-home schemes that you see advertised in the back of women's magazines, entrepreneur magazines, most internet websites and classified advertisements... are scams. Others may be legal but simply worthless. 

As a child, you may have considered the ad in the back of comic books to get rich raising earthworms or growing mushrooms in your basement.  As adults, most people recognize the inherent idiocy of these ventures.  however, we may now get sucked into other "ventures" that operate along the same lines, but appeal to us on other levels.

Here are some actual examples of typical emails and advertisements that are for worthless work-from-home schemes.  Remember, it doesn't matter whether they are legal or a flat-out scam: the real question is, do they really work?  Who gets rich, you or the guy selling the schemes? Looking at these, the answers ought to be obvious!

• Internet Auction schemes
• Data entry at home

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Names used by scammers in the examples on this page and others often belong to real people and businesses who often have no knowledge of nor connection to the scammer's use of their name and information.  Sample scam emails and other documents are copies of the scam to help potential victims recognize and avoid it.  You should presume that any names used and presented here in a scam are either fictitious or used without their legitimate owner's permission.
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