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The Avanti Group LLC Recruiting & Leadership, Many work-at-home job offers could be scams10 Years AgoSource
What’s wrong with many of those work-at-home job offers
you see advertised?
We found a large number of them are scams that will cost
you more than you will ever make.
For just $6,000 and a one day course, job seekers were
told they could learn to do medical billing working from home and earn big
bucks.
“They would be told there would be no need to market the
services the demand was so great for medical billing that they wouldn`t even
need to knock on doctors` doors, doctors would be seek them out,” says Terrence
Sullivan, a U.S. Postal Inspector.
The company, lured in victims by telling them they could
earn $1,200 a month and that EDI would help them find clients.
“EDI would provide them with a couple of firms or
doctors` offices or chiropractors or medical laboratories that would be in
their area,” says Sullivan.
The whole thing was a scam.
“In this particular case it was always a fraud. There was
no demand for the medical billing service they were offering,” says Sullivan.
Victims lost the $6,000 fee they paid for the program as
well as money spent flying to a one day training session in Detroit.
In all: 3,500 victims and more than $17 million dollars
in losses.
Postal inspectors say the majority of people who signed
up for the course never found a single client, never processed a single claim
and never made a dime.
Inspectors say be wary of work-at-home opportunities.
“No one is going to pay you big money and not ask you to
put out a lot of effort. They really take advantage of people in a desperate
situation,” says Sullivan.
The Federal Trade Commission also alleged that EDI failed
to provide consumers with information required by the franchise rule. Courts
granted the FTC`s request for a temporary restraining order and asset freeze.
Soon after, the defendants agreed to a preliminary injunction.
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