Complaint Review: Michelle's Work-at-Home Services

Be Warned--No True Clerical Work From Michelle's Work-at-Home Servies!

Unless you have an urge to waste $15 to sign up for an internet scam, I would advise honest people in search of home-based clerical work to stay away from Michelle's Work-at-Home Services. The person or people behind this money-making scam place ads in free classifieds online in the "Home Business" or "Work at Home Categories." They may also have their own websites.

The main website is http://100mwahs.50megs.com It does not disclose the details the jobseeker needs to know about what they really do. They do a decent job of sounding legitimate and helpful, but that is one danger of Internet facades. You may also come across other individuals advertising to be her associates. These people paid their $15 fee (supposedly an application and processing fee) to sign up with this fraudulent service.

They found out after they paid, as I did, the true nature of the so-called paid evaluation period. By placing their own ads, they continue to perpetuate fraud and deceit and should be ashamed of themselves. The service makes a reference to this paid evaluation period but gives no details except to say that the worker will be paid $5 per work assignment completed during the evaluation period. After they accept your money, they send you information that reveals that the evaluation period consists of recruiting ten other people for this same "work."

What you are actually doing is collecting $15 more for Michelle's Work-at-Home scam per recruit, and they kick back $5 to you. They suggest you place flyers on community message boards and in laundromats. Does that sound like home-based work? Running around town putting up signs, leading other people to believe there are real home-based clerical jobs? So far, the ads I have seen by "associates" who fell into this trap make no mention of the requirement to recruit.

Of course, they know most people would not pay if they realized that the paid evaluation period did not involve anything related to clerical work but required recruiting. This service misrepresents the nature of the work by leaving out critical information and leading people to believe they will receive clerical assignments which will test their spelling and accuracy during the evaluation period.

When I found out about this requirement of recruitment, which they claim is an evaluation period you must complete before you receive any clerical assignments from their work center, I emailed a response that I paid my application fee, my application was accepted, and I expected them to send me any legitimate clerical, typing, or ad placement related work assignments they had. If there were real assignments, what would prevent them from sending them to me? That is, after all, what I had been hired for. They did not reply to my first assertive work request. That tells me there are no true clerical assignments.

I sent a second message, emphasizing I had paid the $15 and I deserved a reply. I did get a brief reply with the emphasis that everyone who signs up must undergo the "evaluation period" and that the recruitment of other people is part of their contract with other companies that provide work assignments. I have requested a refund, although I do not expect them to comply because they state on the website a bogus legal excuse for not giving refunds. I expect I will have to turn to the BBB on this one. I plan to have fun exposing this scam and helping others to avoid losing money and suffering the disappointment of not receiving any actual clerical work, whether or not I can actually recover my application fee.

Rachel
Radford, Virginia
U.S.A.

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