How to Report a Work-at-Home Scam

There are many work-at-home scams occurring these days since so many people want to be able to stay home and earn money. People desire to work without a boss telling them what to do and to feel the freedom to do the work at any time during the day. This is the biggest reason why work-at-home scams are so successful. The most popular scam is stuffing envelopes. They convince people to send them money as a registration fee and then the person looking for work gets nothing in return. The newest scam is reshipping fraud, where you will receive packages and mail to another country. In the meantime, you pay for the mailing and do not get reimbursed, as well as paying a fee up front.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Notify your local post office. Informing the post office will alert the postal inspection service. The postal service educates consumers monthly about the latest work-at-home scams happening around the country.

2. Contact the National Fraud Information Center. They will share information gathered with law enforcement offices around the country. This is to help identify patterns of criminal activity which can lead to prosecution of the criminal.

3. Inform the Federal Trade Commission. They investigate fraud and they enter the information regarding the latest fraudulent activity into an online database. This information would be available to hundreds of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies located worldwide. These law enforcers can gather enough information to convict the criminals.

4. Call the Better Business Bureau. They offer a warning list that tells of the latest work at home scams. They advise consumers of warning signs to look for. If the work-at-home ad overstates how effective the product is, exaggerates how much money you could earn, and tells you to send money before getting started, then avoid it and report it. These are all signs of a work-at-home scam.

5. Report it to your local police. Informing the police of criminal activity such as a work-at-home scam can help them gather enough information as more people report the same type of scam in order to track down the scammer.

Tips & Warnings

• Contact the person that scammed you. If you have an address, email, or phone number try to contact them and see if you can get your money back. Sometimes the threat of reporting them will worry them enough to refund your money.

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on 6/22/2009 great advice
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