Crackdown on home-working scam

By THIS IS MONEY
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A BUSINESS that tricked people trying to earn money while working at home has stopped publishing misleading adverts after a crackdown by the Office of Fair Trading.

David Breach trading as Delta Data Services in South Wales and who previously traded as Neath Mailing Services, published adverts that gave the impression that people could earn money at home by filling and returning envelopes. The only way they could earn money was to recruit new agents to the scheme.

Agents placed adverts in windows and newspapers, and put flyers on car windscreens, inviting people to send for further details of a home working scheme advertising earnings of £130 for 100 envelopes.

Respondents had to pay a £15 registration fee before they were given full details of the scheme, which involved agents obtaining responses from potential new agents through advertising before they earned any money.

David Breach has given the OFT undertakings that he will no longer publish or permit the publishing or dissemination of such misleading adverts.

OFT chairman John Vickers said: 'This kind of advertising deceptively encourages people to pay to sign up to what looks like a work-from-home scheme, only to discover they have to solicit other people to the scheme in order to make any money.'

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