DAM
ditto. All the ones I heard of are scams. There is a good reason why they advertise on phone poles.
ditto. All the ones I heard of are scams. There is a good reason why they advertise on phone poles.
nope, not on a phone poll. I'm not quitting my job at the library, no. 
But it does sound fishy to some degree. But I'm certainly not going to ignore this, either. Not until I know it's fake.
But it does sound fishy to some degree. But I'm certainly not going to ignore this, either. Not until I know it's fake.
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ffmcobalt
As I said no laughing or mocking, but a question:
If this is so apparently easy to do why are they going to pay $75k/year? Seems to me that anybody could do this, and if its as easy as it sounds then they would have no problem paying people, say, $7/hour to do this? It can't be so hard they need to funnel out $75k/year for enevelope stuffing.
As I said no laughing or mocking, but a question:
If this is so apparently easy to do why are they going to pay $75k/year? Seems to me that anybody could do this, and if its as easy as it sounds then they would have no problem paying people, say, $7/hour to do this? It can't be so hard they need to funnel out $75k/year for enevelope stuffing.
That is also explained in the letter, but hey: I don't remember jack crap.
If I have time tonight, I'll post the exact contents of the letter.
If I have time tonight, I'll post the exact contents of the letter.
As ripped from here:
Stuffing envelopes the stuff of scams
Want to earn $5,000 a week?
Well, of course you do.
So why are you wasting your time reading Shallow Pockets when you could be gleefully stuffing envelopes and raking in a small fortune?
At least that's what Group M. Publishing would have you believe. The Sunrise, Fla., company recently sent Mrs. Pockets a letter promising to pay her $10 per envelope.
There are lots of get-rich-easy scams out there, but this one struck Shallow Pockets as particularly absurd, and we've always been curious about envelope-stuffing schemes.
So we read the letter.
It said Group M. has 500,000 letters just waiting to be stuffed and mailed. The company's staff can't do the job in the required time, so Group M. is looking for people to mail the letters.
"Your only job is to stuff our special advertising letters, that we will send to you, into envelopes, that we will send to you, and then mail them out to receive payment from us," the ad said.
It's not quite that simple, of course.
First you have to pay Group M. a one-time fee to show you're serious about this career change. The fee ranges from $49 to $139, depending on how many envelopes you order.
And there's more. You get paid only for each letter "stuffed and returned to us as per instructions."
Shallow Pockets tried to call Group M. to find out exactly what that meant. Unfortunately, there was no Group M. Publishing Co. in the Sunrise, Fla., phone listings.
Here's what Shallow Pockets thinks that phrase means: You send out the envelopes and Group M. will pay you when someone responds by sending a check to Group M. to pay for whatever it is Group M. is selling.
If no one buys anything, you've paid $49 for 49 envelopes.
So what is Group M. selling?
The ad assures us that you won't be stuffing or mailing anything pornographic or illegal. Shallow suspects gullible stuffers will be sent more ads, just like the ones Mrs. Pockets received.
When one of your 49 people sends in $49 for their own batch of envelopes, you get your $10 cut.
We don't know if that's what's happening, but if it is, it sounds suspiciously like a chain letter or an illegal pyramid scheme.
Of course, it could be worse. The company might take your money and send you nothing.
By the way, Group M promises to send envelopes and letters, but it doesn't say anything about names and addresses.
Could it be that the envelopes are blank?
In that case, you'd have to find the prospective customers, perhaps by taking names out of your local phone book
Group M. says its fee is simply "to insure that you're serious about earning good money." It will be refunded once you've proved yourself by earning three paychecks for stuffing envelopes.
Imagine that. A company that doesn't even have a phone listing is suspicious of our intentions.
Viper GTS
Stuffing envelopes the stuff of scams
Want to earn $5,000 a week?
Well, of course you do.
So why are you wasting your time reading Shallow Pockets when you could be gleefully stuffing envelopes and raking in a small fortune?
At least that's what Group M. Publishing would have you believe. The Sunrise, Fla., company recently sent Mrs. Pockets a letter promising to pay her $10 per envelope.
There are lots of get-rich-easy scams out there, but this one struck Shallow Pockets as particularly absurd, and we've always been curious about envelope-stuffing schemes.
So we read the letter.
It said Group M. has 500,000 letters just waiting to be stuffed and mailed. The company's staff can't do the job in the required time, so Group M. is looking for people to mail the letters.
"Your only job is to stuff our special advertising letters, that we will send to you, into envelopes, that we will send to you, and then mail them out to receive payment from us," the ad said.
It's not quite that simple, of course.
First you have to pay Group M. a one-time fee to show you're serious about this career change. The fee ranges from $49 to $139, depending on how many envelopes you order.
And there's more. You get paid only for each letter "stuffed and returned to us as per instructions."
Shallow Pockets tried to call Group M. to find out exactly what that meant. Unfortunately, there was no Group M. Publishing Co. in the Sunrise, Fla., phone listings.
Here's what Shallow Pockets thinks that phrase means: You send out the envelopes and Group M. will pay you when someone responds by sending a check to Group M. to pay for whatever it is Group M. is selling.
If no one buys anything, you've paid $49 for 49 envelopes.
So what is Group M. selling?
The ad assures us that you won't be stuffing or mailing anything pornographic or illegal. Shallow suspects gullible stuffers will be sent more ads, just like the ones Mrs. Pockets received.
When one of your 49 people sends in $49 for their own batch of envelopes, you get your $10 cut.
We don't know if that's what's happening, but if it is, it sounds suspiciously like a chain letter or an illegal pyramid scheme.
Of course, it could be worse. The company might take your money and send you nothing.
By the way, Group M promises to send envelopes and letters, but it doesn't say anything about names and addresses.
Could it be that the envelopes are blank?
In that case, you'd have to find the prospective customers, perhaps by taking names out of your local phone book
Group M. says its fee is simply "to insure that you're serious about earning good money." It will be refunded once you've proved yourself by earning three paychecks for stuffing envelopes.
Imagine that. A company that doesn't even have a phone listing is suspicious of our intentions.
Viper GTS
Ranger,
it might be worth reading the whole thread that you're posting to before sticking your foot in your mouth.
it might be worth reading the whole thread that you're posting to before sticking your foot in your mouth.
Viper's right. These envelope jobs are the biggest scams. My friend worked for a company that sold machines that do the folding and stuffing of the material into envelopes automatically. It could do thousands an hour. The machine cost CDN$25,000. Why the hell would someone pay you US$75,000 to do less envelopes? I'll bet they've calculate their rate, as being 168 hours per week at 2 envelopes stuffed per second. That would mean you'd get around 7 cents per envelope. That makes more sense. Now, if you could only stay up for a week without any sleep and rest
-GL
-GL
hmm. I don't know, but you're raising some interesting questions about it, and I appreciate it.
We'll see. If I do get the job and it works out, I'll buy a faster computer to tell you all how much you suck. If it doesn't work out, I'll tell you all that you suck on my Celery500 w/dialup.
We'll see. If I do get the job and it works out, I'll buy a faster computer to tell you all how much you suck.
If it doesn't work out, I'll tell you all that you suck on my Celery500 w/dialup.
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I think you should ask yourself what I asked: If it is so easy to make this much money why are there not more people doing it? If this company pays $75k/year for such a simple service they could easily cut costs by throwing an add in the paper...they could say "Earn $15/hour for stuffing envelopes". How many people would respond? If it was a real job they'd have more people responding than they could dream of...so why pay an executive's salary for something an illegal alien could do?
I KNOW.
I UNDERSTAND.
I'M NOT A FRIGGIN' MORON.
THAT'S WHY I'M CHECKING THINGS OUT BEFORE I START.
God, you people sound like parents --the LAST thing I need right now.
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please see first line in signature
<edit>
I UNDERSTAND.
I'M NOT A FRIGGIN' MORON.
THAT'S WHY I'M CHECKING THINGS OUT BEFORE I START.
God, you people sound like parents --the LAST thing I need right now.
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please see first line in signature
<edit>
We have an envelope stuffing machine here at work and it doesn't take very long to stuff 725 envelopes. There is no way that this is legit.
KingHam
KingHam
no. last night proved that I don't need parents.
what... can't I talk to a tax man by myself? Do I need my mommy to hold my had and walk me through investigating things? Is it okay if I formulate my own opinion??
what... can't I talk to a tax man by myself? Do I need my mommy to hold my had and walk me through investigating things? Is it okay if I formulate my own opinion??
Adul
Elite Member
Im just guessing here:
Hardware Technician = $20,000-25,000 Yr.
Network Admin = $35,000-45,000 Y.
Web Designer = $45,000-60,000 Yr.
Envelope Stuffer = $75,000 Yr.
Wake up and STOP smoking CrAcK FFMCobalt!
Hardware Technician = $20,000-25,000 Yr.
Network Admin = $35,000-45,000 Y.
Web Designer = $45,000-60,000 Yr.
Envelope Stuffer = $75,000 Yr.
Wake up and STOP smoking CrAcK FFMCobalt!
hey!
I want some of this cash!!
help me out??
spare a coin for a lepper?
alms for the poor!!
(spelling?)
I want some of this cash!!
help me out??
spare a coin for a lepper?
alms for the poor!!
(spelling?)
Hoopdogg, if you send me $49, I'll get us both started for s-u-c-c-e-s-s.
[serious]I really hope it works it works out for you FFMCobalt!
[serious]I really hope it works it works out for you FFMCobalt!
heh, 75k a yr.. man, i thought you were gunna do some programming or some crap at home stuff envelopes.. sheesh
stuff envelopes.. sheesh okay, if someone said that they'd give you an insanely amount of money for doing something, would you walk away or ask what the catch is?
that's what I thought.
that's what I thought.
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