I Was Scammed by Envelope Stuffing Canadians
We get the strangest email, such as this one about a week ago:
I have received my book from you so l picked stuffing envelopes.I sent two dollars to Choice 919 Centre St.NW,Suite #225 Calgary,AB T2E-2P6 I have not recived enthink. Let ME KNOW
Thank You
“Let me know.” Umm…can anyone help me out with this? What exactly is the writer asking me to let him/her know? And by the way, if you haven’t already learned this on your own, let me warn you: there’s no bigger red flag than the words, “stuffing envelopes.” It’s a scam that was invented looong before the Internet. And what’s more, we have no record of this person buying our book. So I’m pretty sure that whatever he’s talking about, it isn’t our fault. I wrote and asked him for clarification:
We’re not sure what you mean. We have not ever recommended stuffing envelopes as a legitimate income producer. What is it you want us to let you know?
Today the answer came back:
Hi Joe,
The Canadian Home Job Review and Employment Directory I received, and in the directory I picked the stuffing 400 Envelopes for $800 dollars. The letter was sent to choice 919 Center St. NW, Suit #225 Calgary, AB. T2E 2P6, and the two dollars was in the envelope with my info, The money off the master card was taken, and I have not recieved the package. If you could write me back and let me know what’s going on with my package I would appreciate it very much. Thank You.
Please, PLEASE tell me you didn’t send somebody $800 (even if it is $800 Canadian) to teach you how to stuff envelopes? Or did you send them $2 and a credit card?
At any rate, I think you’ve fallen into one of the oldest scams in the book. The typical envelope stuffing scam goes something like this: The scammer takes out an ad in the local paper, or puts up a flier, or something else print-based (remember, this is pre-Internet). He tells you you can make easy money by stuffing envelopes for companies that apparently haven’t yet discovered batch mail processing equipment. He tells you the secret to this wealth can be yours for $2. Send it to Scams R Us, at a nondescript PO box. If you get anything back, it’s instructions on how to take out your own classified, put in your address, and run the scam yourself. The envelopes you’ll be stuffing are the ones containing instructions for YOUR victims on how to run the scam for themselves.
If, on the other hand, this writer lost $800, we’re in a totally different arena.
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I can’t believe that someone sent $800 to find out how to stuff envelopes!! OMG!! Please tell me this is not true. If so I might have an offer to make them, “Now you’ve stuffed them, Learn how to post them!! Only $1000″
That was my reaction, too, Mike. I don’t know if that’s the case because we haven’t heard from the original writer again.
I have seen this ad before. I don’t think he sent $800 to the company. You have to send $2 to get the info on how to get $800 for stuffing 400 enveloppes, $1200 for 600 enveloppes, etc.
Ok, I know exactly what this person is talking about… in a home job directory where Choice Mail is listed, it asks for $1 and a stamp to send the info back to you. I did this and within a month I received the requested info, you then have to send $38.95 to them, they’ll send you the materials, complete with pre-addressed and stamped envelopes, you get $2 per envelope up to 450 envelopes weekly, $65 per sale made from the envelopes you send, and your $38.95 back on your first cheque. So far it seems legit, so I sent my $38.95 away today, I’ll let you know if it works out.
Thanks, Kristin. I’ll be very interested in hearing how it turns out.
Hey kristin….i m a new immigrant in canada and am trying hard to survive so this home job grabbed my attention i was also considering the stuffing envelopes….do u think it really works out???why dont they give us a website…..is it legitimate?
just like all the others, I fell for it too sent the $ 38.95 and thats the last I heard. Checked on Google and its the biggest scam going now. Checked with Calgary Better bus. got no where. dont feel good about it but at least im not alone
re; Choicemail scam I hope Mary Henderson has a Heart attack like I did
Bond, chances are good that it’s not legit.
Good luck, Norm.
Ok, it took almost a month, but I finally heard back from Choice Mail. It was not as I had expected, though, they don’t send you envelopes to stuff, you have to advertise for people to send you envelopes (with the $2 in it) so you can send back the sales letter, hopefully getting them to buy some software, which you make a hefty commission on. But you have to shell out the $$$ for printing and advertising, I guess if you can get things going, you could make some nice cash… oh and after your first order they send you your deposit back. I haven’t decided yet if I want to try it….
hey thanks joe…..
hello, i am very happy that i somehow came across this website! i know exactly what it feels like to have been scammed. I ended up victim to an ad I found in my parenting magazine (go figure), ad posted: send out sase and make 15$ per envelope. send 45.00 for supplies with check or money order. wow was I stupid, I went and got a money order, sent it to this supposed company and 6 weeks later I recieved and envelope containing about 6 pages telling you how to scam people just how i had been scammed. stating posting ad’s in local newspapers and magazines,website and such, getting a p.o. box for yourself where your victims can send their money to, and then how to print out the exact same papers you have recieved and were reading on how to scam others!Thanks to that scam I decided to never fall victim again and began my long search to actually find something legit that you shouldnt have to pay for to be payed. Thanks again for starting this wonderful site!!
Sorry to hear about that, Brandi. Live and learn, I guess. Poke around on our site; I think you’ll find a lot of scams exposed and also some legitimate ways to make money online.
tell u what dont send any thing i have send my $38.95 till today still waiting for ny envelopes haha i have been scam like me single parent trying to make honest earning. its a lesson to learn
I sent my $38.00 to a company called “The Canadian Home Job Review and Employment Directory” I did get the book just recently and have been trying different things. I sent my loonie away to this “Choice” place in Calgary on 919 Centre Street. Haven’t heard back yet but since reading all your complaints I guess I have been scammed too. Isn’t it sad that they choose to scam and steal from unemployed and sometimes desperate people to make their money. Certainly not Robin Hoods are they? I’ll let you know it anything further transpires but I’m not looking for any breaks either.
I have received a letter in the mail and was thinking about trying choice mail. But instead I will call calgary police instead.
Oh,this is a disgrace,I’ve done the same thing. The Canadian Homemakers Review, got the book,sent my $2.00 and a self-stamped envelope and have heard nothing since!!I’m so mad at these people!!! No wonder they’re millionaires or whatever, they scam people. This should be reported to somebody that can make them pay back the money they stolefrom us. Then if your a millionaire, what chance do we have? That goes for those so-called Top Jobs they have. You want to know how mad I was? I was going to hop a plane and go to Ottawa (sister lives there) and go straight there and ask them”where the hell do you get your so money-making ideas from?” These people should be investigated.THOROUGHLY!!!!!!
I posted a comment on May 3rd and said I’d get back if anything transpired. Well I got an envelope yesterday from this witch and now she wants $38.75. I can’t remember what for exactly but she’s not getting it. You know we should print off all these complaints and send them to the police out there. I’m from Nova Scotia, but I think I will print off some of them and send them to her so she will know what people think of her. I thank you all for starting this blog.
I have received the same flyers for choice mail and Mary Henderson, they want $38.95 and supposedly only 83 positions available, nothing about sending $2.00 first, but I think this is just another variation on the over all scam, anyways I live in Calgary and I think I shall drop by the office on centre street and see what Mary is up too!!
That’s great, Glenn! Let us know what you find out.
Got Mary Henderson’s Choice Mail promo in the mail. Don’t know how I got it. I am always suspicious if there is no telephone number, fax, email, etc., to allow you to contact these companies. I have to agree with other writers here - there are companies that handles big batch mailouts for you. There must be something more to this. The software mentioned in the letter may give “legitimacy” to the “scam”. After all, you don’t want to be labelled a “pyramid” scheme anymore. I would say to use “extreme caution”. Your $38.95’s can add up very quickly. If it is a true business opportunity, I would send an inquiry letter first, and if they have the courtesy to respond to your inquiry, you may be dealing with a legit business. I don’t see this company on BBB listing in Alberta, and they are supposedly a “Canadian company”. Anyone who is anybody listed with BBB. There is a limit to your stuffing ($450/week), which averages out to about 1-1.5 hours a day for 5 days, or 6 hours of straight stuffing and licking, to earn the supposed 900 bucks. IT just looks TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. If you are a business who needs someone to stuff envelopes for you, would you mail boxes of stuff around the globe for the work to get done — at the current cost of mailing ? I don’t think so. This is a person gone wild.
If you are a business that needs help in this department, you will likely keep it close to home, and keep it real. Sorry Mary Henderson, you are just not going to get my bucks!
I sent a cheque to them for 38.95 and still waiting for my chance to make some money from home. If anyone knows how to contact these people please let me know. I just want to be a good parent and provide for my family. I am a disabled person and thought that this would be a chance to change my life. Well so much for that. I want to get in touch with these people and I need help finding them. Please let me know……………
OMG> I just fell for that scam. 6 days ago, i just sent a $40.00 money order, to pay choice mail. Dam, is this true. Cause I am canadian, and I will have this person charged for fraud, by the R.C.M.P., and if they can’t help me….. well calgary is only a 12 hr drive from here for me. The address is the same forever, and they have not been charged or caught, i do not believe it.
Dam this person should have been in jail by now.
The address is to a UPS store and they’re using a rented box.
919 Centre St. NW
Suite 225
Calgary, Alberta
T2E 2P6
It’s a shame so many people get scammed trying to work from home. I too sent my $38. What I should have done was come here first. Oh well, it’s only $38 and I’ll make that back.
I feel like I’ve tried everything on the internet from home and the only LEGIT way is internet marketing. There IS an upfront investment and it can normally be between $500 - $1000 more or less.
There is this program called Little Guy Network where I recently paid $200 to get into. Yeah, believe it or not though IT WORKS! But that’s not the only program that does. There’s a few more out with a little higher investment that do too. I chose this one because I wouldn’t have cared if I lost $200.
This is the only legitimate way (that I know of) that you can make money from home and I’d be more than willing to share with you how it works and show you several people in this already.
My email is littleguylive@gmail.com
Apparently I have just been scammed as well. My husband and I are within a week away of probably recieving some envelopes. I knew there was something wrong with this whole idea. We were looking forward to some fast cash but apparently that is not going to happen. My 38.95 went to M Henderson as well. I do however have something totally legit going on. It’s called Fortune Hi-tech Marketing. Some people will think its a scam too but it’s not. Money doesn’t come free but if you put a little time and effort into it it will pay. I’ve seen proof in it with friends that have joined, I just need to get out and do some work with it myself.
Hey everyone, I just want to say that I received my package from Mary Henderson. I haven’t read through it all yet, but I will take back what I said about it being a scam because she does provide some valuable information that, to me, is worth the $34.
Right now, I all I can tell you is that it has something to do with selling CD-ROMS. I will post more once I have some time to go through it all.
Hopefully everyone who paid for the package will receive it shortly. Snail mail sucks but just be patient.
Best of luck to everyone!
man i wish i read this before sending of my 38.95. I am anxious to see what Bill has to say.. is it working out??
Hey Jill, to be honest I’m not even going to try to do what Mary’s doing (Mary Henderson). But… if you’re in a network marketing business the information she hands out will be very valuable.
It’s confusing trying to learn exactly how she does her work, but it works. I’d rather focus my attention on my internet marketing business and use some of her advertising methods.
Oh and yes she rented out a UPS box. She recommends doing the same and even registering your own business name. You’ll be able to receive some good tax write offs from doing so.
I’ve turned my interest to a business called Carbon Copy Pro instead of the Little Guy Network. If anyone wants help in finding a good online business or wants more information on what’s involved I’d be happy to help.
Best wishes everyone!
I am still unsure if I should send my 38.95 to Mary Henderson, her information seems to be legit, but most people are being ripped off. I’m only 20, so would her package of what ever it is be worth it, is it that advanced?
Samantha, if most people are being ripped off, why would you even consider it? Stay away.