Stuffing envelopes is an age old scam – a self licking ice cream cone – where someone places an ad promising easy money. All you have to do to learn more is send X-amount of cash and a stamped self-addressed envelope to such and such a PO box to find out more.
Then, after the ad has run, letters start arriving in the mail, each with a dollar bill and a pre-stamped envelope.
That’s when the stuffing begins.
A xeroxed copy of instructions (probably the same instructions that have been used for the past 30 years) is folded and stuffed into the stamped envelope and sent back to the person who wants to learn more.
And the cycle continues.
There was no true product sold. No real answer given. It’s a perpetuating scam targeting people looking to make a little extra money.
Does this same scam also exist on the internet today? Click here, read this, and I’ll tell you how to make money doing this simple task?
Maybe.
Sometimes it feels the same.
No real product is sold. Not the one the person clicking wanted in any event, unless of course they want to do the same thing. Unless they want to continue the cycle.
Click here, pay money, and find out how to get someone else to do the same thing.
Where is the product? What is the service? What question does it answer? What need does it fulfill?
Besides greed.
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