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Show Watch out for Fraudulent Schemes the literature asks you to send $2 to $10 for an instruction in-struction kit, the instruction kit states that you need to mail $10 to $50 for a start-up kit. If the offer is to make money but requires you to send a few dollars "to show how it is done, the offer is probably worthless, she said. The Utah Trade Commission Com-mission has issued a statement to be alert for some common fraudulent mail-order schemes. Eueda Stevenson executive secretary of the commission, warned Utahns to be especially alert for ads with headlines such as: $500 per thousand envelopes stuffed! Earn extra cash in your spare time mailing circulars! Stuffing envelopes en-velopes at home is an easy way to make extra dollars! Mrs. Stevenson said there are thousands of con artists selling "work at home" schemes, many are the mail order variety, most are a ripoff in one way or another and 99 percent operate out of the mail box. "A business that can run itself," she said, "and requires no experience on the part of the owner, requires a few hours only a day, and offers large returns, is so rare and unknown as to be on the endangered species list." Mrs. Stevenson said the envelope stuffing scheme works like this : you send a stamped self-addressed envelope for free literature, |