How to Spot the Email Processing Work at Home Scam

The email processing work at home scam promises job seekers an enticing amount of money to do what seems to be an honest and easy job. However, after job seekers reply to the advertisement for an email processor, they find that they've lost more money than they've made. Read the following tips to learn how to spot the email processing work at home scam.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Scan a job advertisement for an email processor. The advertisements say you'll be paid a certain amount of money for each email that you successfully process. It's not uncommon to read that you will be paid around $25 for each processed email.

2. Respond to the job advertisement using the contact information provided. Usually, there's only an email address and no company name.

3. Read the scammer's response and note that you must pay a non-refundable fee to receive details on the job.

4. Resist paying the scammer. Most often, the fee that the scammer requires is the same fee shown in the job advertisement as payment for each processed email.

5. Receive the job information if you went ahead and paid the scammer. Your job title may be "email editor" or "email writer." The job description says you need to send out many emails at one time. Each of these emails contains a spam message and a link to products or services. In some cases, the spam message is the job advertisement to which you responded.

6. Send the spam messages only to learn that you won't be paid for each email delivery. Instead, your payment is based on how many email recipients buy the products offered in the email or pay the upfront fee for more information.