Have You Heard Them Say "Work at Home Stuffing Envelopes" Are These Scams?

It seems like tons of web sites, magazines, ezine listings, news letters and mail order publications have at least one ad in it promising hundreds or thousands of dollars a week, just for stuffing envelopes. Some even promise to pay up to $5 for each envelope stuffed! 

Want to know why envelope stuffing programs are nothing more than scams.

First of all, the whole idea of paying someone for envelope stuffing is kind of silly if you think about it. Why would someone pay people $5 or even 25 cents to stuff an envelope when you can buy an envelope stuffing machine for a few hundred dollars? There must be something more to it than simply putting a paper in an envelope. Think about it.

In fact, there's much more. Here's how it really works, you pay a "registration fee", normally around $35.00, which is pure profit for the culprit.

The culprit or scammer then sends you a copy of the ad you originally responded to, along with the wording to a classified ad, stressing to people about how much money they can make stuffing envelopes, and tells you to place a similar ad requesting a self addressed stamped envelope for information. When you receive someone's SASE, you send them a copy of the ad.

You have just "stuffed an envelope". If the poor person or parent sends in the registration fee to the scammer (just as you did), the culprit will send you $5 (or whatever you were told you would be paid) for stuffing the envelope.

Basically, you are doing all the advertising and promotion for extremely low pay and you can potentially lose a bundle on advertising. It's a real shame to see families being taken advantage of in this way.

The other most common envelope stuffing scheme works like this. You send the usual "registration fee" in, and you receive a package containing all the components of the mailings your supposed to stuff. You must assemble them, fold them, and stuff the envelopes according to the exact instructions. Sounds like assembly work doesn't it.

Then you send the stuffed envelopes back to the where you got them. You will be paid for each stuffed envelope that "meets their very high standards". But of course none of the envelopes you stuffed will meet their standards. They will find a reason not to pay you. Even though they still mail out the envelopes you stuffed.

So you can plainly see that joining an envelope stuffing program is a bunch of bologna. If you want to get into mail order, invest your money in a legitimate mail order business.