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==Overview==

[[Remote work]] schemes have been recorded since the early 20th century; the earliest studied "envelope stuffing" scam originated in the United States during [[the Great Depression]] in the 1920s and 1930s.<ref name="scambusters">{{cite web |url=https://scambusters.org/work-at-home.html |title=Top 10 Work At Home and Home Based Business Scams |date=12 February 2004 |archive-date=31 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120731044042/http://www.scambusters.org/work-at-home.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In this scam, the worker is offered entry to a scheme where they can earn $2 for every envelope they fill. After paying a small $2 fee to join the scheme, the victim is sent a [[flyer (pamphlet)|flyer]] template for the self-same work-from-home scheme, and instructed to post these advertisements around their local area&nbsp;&ndash; the victim is simply "stuffing envelopes" with flyer templates that perpetuate the scheme.<ref name="scambusters"/> Originally found as printed adverts in [[newspaper]]s and [[magazine]]s, variants of this scam have expanded into more modern media, such as [[television]] and [[radio]] adverts, and forum posts on the [[Internet]].

So for most of the jobs that i'm going to mention i would recommend using a platform like up work in this, is not sponsored in any way but with up work you can actually look through jobs that people have already posted who are actively looking for help with their projects. [[These 6 Online Jobs will Pay you $15/Hour: Online Income]]

You could also use something like Fiverr but identifying that with Fiverr it's really built more for people looking for freelancers rather than the other way run. Up work goes both ways and there are a ton of different platforms out there but that is just the one that i think is easiest to get started with. Well start off with the job on this list that requires the lowest skill level and that would be data entry.

So with the data entry this can be a variety of different things it could be taking someone's pdf document and transferring it to word, it could be transferring data into an excel spreadsheet, it could even be writing product listings were transferring products from one online store to another online store.

In some countries, law enforcement agencies work to fight work-at-home schemes. In 2006, the United States [[Federal Trade Commission]] (FTC) established [[Project False Hopes]], a federal and state law enforcement sweep that targets bogus business opportunities and work-at-home scams. The crackdown involved more than 100 law enforcement actions by the FTC, the Department of Justice, the [[United States Postal Inspection Service]], and law enforcement agencies in eleven states.<ref name="falsehopes"/>