What exactly are those "work from home" ads for?

[Beev]

I see ads all the time about how I can "make $5,000 a month part time by working from home." What exactly do you DO to make that?

 

[Kyanzes]

Operating a private sex show. Must be something like that.

 

[kranky]

The ads are to get people to respond, then the people who placed the ad try to sell you stuff - lists of companies that allegedly hire people to work from home, books on ways to make money working from home, etc. That's where they make THEIR money.

You could make $5,000 a month working from home, too!

- Sell stuff on ebay.

- Place ads in magazines selling stuff. Fill the orders from home and mail them out. If you get enough of them, you could make $5,000!

You can see that while it is POSSIBLE, it's certainly not PROBABLE.

 

[Stuxnet]

"My goal for next month is $20,000!"

An actual quote from an ad I saw last night.

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: Sraaz
I see ads all the time about how I can "make $5,000 a month part time by working from home." What exactly do you DO to make that?

send out ads telling how people can make $5000 a month.

 

[Unheard]

Stuffing envelopes FTW!

or

1) Read sign
2) Call number
3) ?????
4) PROFIT!

 

[AbsolutDealage]

Yea, basically if you read an ad that doesn't tell you anything about the actual job you will be doing... that's all you need to know. It will be a scam of some sort.

 

[marvdmartian]

Seriously, I had this explained as simply, "Place inexpensive ads, usually in magazines, telling people how they can make $5000 a month. The cost for the information is $5, sent to PO Box whatever. Once you get 1000 people to send you $5 each, you're making $5000, selling them a single sheet of paper that details how you're able to make money getting schmucks like themselves to send you money for fairly useless information."

Is it illegal. NOPE! Is it ridiculously simple to fool people?? YEP!! :roll:

Two things to remember in life:
1. You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time. (Abraham Lincoln, if I'm not mistaken);
2. There's a sucker born every minute! (P.T. Barnum)

Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!! :laugh:

 

[ryan256]

Its comapnies that want to sell you their "wonderful information" on how to get rich quick. I hate comapnies like this because they prey on those who are low income and not all that smart.

 

[manohartvs]

So you people think its legal? Some ads say you need to answer emails n stuff. If that is true, and it is legal...I don't mind getting an extra $100 a week.
That is a lot of $#&^% for a college student 🙂

 

[bunker]

I can't find the article now, but apparently 90% of those work from home ads are for Herbalife supplements. Some guy decided to find out what all these work from home schemes were, replied to a ton of them, and found they all led back to Herbalife.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

http://www.cockeyed.com/workfromhome/workfromhome.html

 

[yhelothar]

They're usually multi level marketing companies, like herbalife, market america, sauna, etc..
It's possible to get rich off of it, but it involves printing out ads on the order of tens of thousands, and posting it everywhere, and trying to make people sign up under your name, thinking they can also make $5,000 a month.

 

[Slew Foot]

Yeah I responded to one just to see what it was (Andy Willoughby's Three Step Plan). Basically its a MLM scheme designed to sell overpriced nutritional supplements (Xango in this case, $80 for a bottle of juice? GTFOOH!!!!). You basically try and recruit people into your downline who are mandated to buy a case of that crap every month and you get a cut of each case they buy.