More Home Business Ideas to AVOID

Here are more home business ideas you would be wise to avoid. One charges you for information you can find for free. One makes a sucker out of you. One could bankrupt you and land you in jail!

AVOID offers that promise to share secrets with you. What kind of secrets? How the gurus make a bazillion bucks. Secret Strategies, Insider Secrets, Secrets of how ordinary people (like you) made megabucks and now live the lifestyle you want. Of course there is the matter of their fee of $97 or $x97 or even $xx97 that you have to pay before they let you in on their secrets. The trouble is most of the information they share is rehashed stuff you can find for free if you look around a bit. The only secret may be that they got wealthy selling information that could be found for free to people like you for $97 or $x97 or even $xx97.

AVOID offers to make $5 stuffing envelopes. Note that you have to pay $5 to find out how. Understand that businesses have machinery that folds paper and stuffs it into envelopes faster than your eyes can follow. Why the heck would they pay you or anybody else $5 to stuff each envelope when they are mailing out hundreds or thousands of them every day? They are in business to make a profit, not keep you off of welfare, and all of this mindless, mechanical unskilled stuff is done by machinery. Envelope stuffing is an out-right scam. Remember that you paid somebody $5 to find out how this works? In order to get your money back you have to con some other sucker into paying you $5 so you can tell them to con yet another sucker out of $5, and so it goes. I see these on Google all the time. Google should have enough integrity to refuse such ads.

AVOID offers to have you deposit a large (really large as in thousands of dollars) cashiers check, foreign check or some such into your checking account, write a check from your account – or do a wire transfer – for most of that amount and keep the difference as your fee for providing the service. There are several variations of this, but the check you are asked to deposit is never ever good. By the time the fraud is discovered, your check has been cashed by the bad guys and you are not only responsible for the entire amount, but in trouble with The Law for laundering money, passing bad checks, and who knows what else.

Author: Sandi Moses
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