| Want to "be your own boss," "work from home," or just
"make extra money"? Then you may be tempted by an ad for a
business opportunity. Before you open your checkbook, check out the
offer. Fraudulent business opportunity promoters use the classifieds and
the Internet to tout all kinds of offers, from pay phone and vending
machine routes to work-at-home businesses like medical billing and
envelope stuffing. Too often, these ads make promises - about earnings,
locations, merchandise, or marketability - that sound great, but aren't
truthful. The result: consumers are getting ripped off, losing money
instead of making it.
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A message from the Federal Trade Commission |
