The Work at Home Scam Blog

Home assembly is a scam that I have first-hand experience with. I touched on it in my first post also, but here I will go into a little more detail.

A company places ads looking for people to assemble products from home, send them to the company, and receive payment for them. All you have to do is send a stated amount of money for instructions.

So you send them your money. And they send you instructions or a pattern to make the product, along with a supply list. Many of them are even “generous” enough to offer the opportunity to purchase the supplies directly from them for a supposed discount.

They ask that you make a sample item and send it in for evaluation so that they can see if your work is up to their standards. And therein lies the catch: It is never up to their standards. After you send your sample in, you receive a letter saying that it is not good enough. Usually they encourage you to try again, hoping that you will buy more materials for them. And if they don’t send your sample back, you can be sure that they’re selling it for profit!

The red flag here, again, is having to send money for a job. That is something that you should never do, no matter what the circumstances.