Most Common Employment Scams

Star Tribune




November 7, 2003

• Assembly work at home. Victims buy hundreds of dollars' worth of supplies and spend many hours assembling craft projects. After completing their work, the company rejects it and refuses to pay.

• Envelope stuffing.

• Processing medical claims. Consumers are pressured to buy software or computers at exorbitant prices. But because of privacy concerns, doctors and dentists rarely hire outsiders to handle their records.

• Job leads. Consumers pay for lists of free government Web sites, or of business opportunities requiring further investment.

• Vending machines and business machines. Some are legitimate opportunities, but many are not. The legitimate ones require lots of hard work -- not the path to easy money that the ads promise.

Source: National Council of Better Business Bureaus

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