Every day, we receive calls from people asking about work-at-home ads they found in the newspaper.

Work-at-home con artists always have preyed most heavily upon senior citizens, the disabled, mothers who want to stay at home with their children, people with low income and few job skills, and people who just want to get rich quick.

Beware of falling prey to tempting work-at-home promotions that offer “easy money.” You could be at risk for some very bad consequences. Consumers have lost amounts ranging from $10 to $70,000, or more. You may throw away countless hours on worthless projects that cost you a lot of money to attempt and complete, but, in the end, give you nothing in return. You can involuntarily sell your customers (friends and family) terrible quality merchandise or nonexistent products and services. You can be held liable for perpetrating a fraud by deliberately or even unintentionally promoting and selling fraudulent products or services to others.

Recently, we’ve received a number of inquiries relating to chain letters. A chain letter consists of a message that attempts to induce the recipient to make a number of copies of the letter and pass them on to two or more new recipients. It usually includes names and addresses of several individuals whom you may or may not know. You are instructed to send a certain amount of money to the person at the top of the list, and then eliminate that name and add yours to the bottom. You are then instructed to mail copies of the letter to a few more individuals who will hopefully repeat the entire process. The letter claims that if the recipients of your letter follow the same procedure, your name will gradually move to the top of the list and you’ll receive money.

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