Email Processing

One of the most frequent opportunities for working from home is email processing. You just send out x number of emails and get paid for each one. Except that's just what they tell you and not really how it works. Now I can't 100% label it a scam because many of them will pay you, but it's definitely not what you've been told.

For starters, it's generally not free to join. There's a $10-$25 one time start-up fee. Now that you've lost your money, you discover you aren't paid per email sent or read. “Processed" means you sent the email (recruiting someone else to process emails), they opened it, AND paid to sign up for the same miracle program as you.

This is why you see so many ads for email processing. People are posting them everywhere they can because the only way they get paid is if you fall for it too. Of course if you can get others to join most of these programs will pay you per sign up, which is why I said it's not a complete scam. Personally I can't trust something so misleading, but you're free to make your own judgement.

Unfortunately there are many more “programs" of this nature in the work at home world. They go way beyond email processing and end up being a referral program or “pay per sign up". This may seem just as easy to you, but keep in mind many people have already learned how these businesses work and have no desire to join referral programs. Especially not ones they will be expected to pay to join.

Can it be done? Yes. Plenty of people make a living with these programs. You can pay your ads on Craigslist, Facebook classifieds, and work at home forums, but you'll probably have to lie as much as the others and word posts carefully. Most websites frown upon recruiting for referral businesses.