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Work At Home
Scam, Fraud, or Rip-off  ?



If you are thinking about investing in a work at home job, read this first:


Just like everyone else we are always looks to earn more money for our family. Seems every time we turn around the cost of living always cost more, yet our pay stays the same or never seems to increase at the same rate. Add to that our children growing up and going to college and Yes, We need to make more money.


With this in mind I looked into a lot of "Work at Home" offers. I found some things in common with all of these offers I checked into.


First: You need to send them money to find out any information. Whether it be just shipping cost for a booklet ($5.00 to $10.00) or for the starter package some as low as $29.95 to as much as $300.00 or more. Cost for both vary with different offers. With what I have found out once you spend the starter kit money you have to spend even more money for other thing. Phone line, office equipment, advertising, and the list goes on. Add to that your time you need to invest which to even attempt to make any money will be more time that a full time job. Even doing that you will probably not be able to make back the money you already invested.


Second: All the one's I looked into and there have been over 7 hundred during a two month time frame (Yes, I spend a lot of time on line), are all Herbalife distributors once you dig and search into them. A lot of them if you take the time to read through everything on their site you will be totally surprised to find out they are selling Herbalife. I have done searches on them and have come up with over 210,000,000 sites. I spent over 3 hours and got only and far as the 758th site, and all of them but 3 sites were Herbalife. This should tell you something about how flooded the internet/market is with these sites. And how hard or impossible it would be to make any money doing this.


Now I don't know about everyone else. But the reason I am looking to earn more money is because I don't have enough to start with to pay bills and other things necessary to support my family. If I had hundreds or thousands of dollars laying around to give away, I would not be looking or worrying about trying to make more money working at home.


To anyone who has that kind of money laying around and would like to give some of it away. I would be more that happy to accept any amount by cash, check, or money order and save you all the trouble of going through the hassles of being ripped off by some work at home scam. Simply e-mail me with the amount you wish to donate. I will e-mail you back with an address to send it to.
My children's college fund will be most grateful.


The only ones making any money are the ones selling the work at home kits.
Now to me this is nothing more than a Scam, Rip Off, Fraud, or what ever name you wish to give it.


Although I understand there are some work at home programs out there that will not rip you off.
I simply have not found one yet.


There is a link at the bottom of this page if you want to send this page to a friend.



You can find more info at these addresses:


Vertical Skip Marketing work at home offers.
I found this site that give some insight into it.
http://www.cockeyed.com/workfromhome/vertical_skip_marketing.html


MLM Watch web site. The skeptical guide to Multilevel Marketing
http://www.mlmwatch.org/index.html


Ripped Off, this is a letter on the MLM Watch web site.
http://www.mlmwatch.org/13Victims/fox.html


Federal Trade Commission
http://www.ftc.gov/


Here is a page at the Federal Trade Commission with a list of Consumer Information and Bussiness Information.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/menu-home.htm#coned


Here is another page at the Federal Trade Commission  -  Facts for Consumers, Work At Home Schemes.
You will also find this page under Work At Home on the page above.
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/invest/homewrk.htm


Here is yet another page at the Federal Trade Commission  -  It has 97 pages of complaints in Adobe .pdf format.
If you don't have Adobe Reader get it free   Adobe Reader

http://www.ftc.gov/foia/herbalife.pdf


Here is the link for the Better Business Bureau.
Use it to check out the names of the web site or company.
I have found a number of work at home site's that you would think where one thing,
but after doing a search on the BBB site the company turned out to be a Herbalfe distributor.
http://www.bbb.org/


Here is another link for the Better Business Bureau were you can browse all their articles by subject.
http://www.bbb.org/alerts/tips.asp


Here is another link for the Better Business Bureau were you can do a search for an article.
http://www.bbb.org/alerts/search.aspx








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