Definition
Programs that provide a hotline, website or other mechanisms for people to report fraud involving bogus business opportunities including work-at-home businesses like stuffing envelopes, franchise purchases, Internet start-ups, multi-level marketing plans that turn out to be pyramid schemes, unhelpful investment and business opportunity seminars, payment for the promise of a government or mystery shopper job and other offers that make big claims about what one can earn.
URL Name
FN-1700-1470-140
Third Level Code
FN-1700
Taxonomy Code
FN-1700.1470-140
Parent Code
FN-1700.1470
Family Code
F
Second Level Code
FN
Fifth Level Code
FN-1700-1470-140
Fourth Level Code
FN-1700-1470
Use References
Business Scam Reporting, Employment Fraud Reporting, Employment Scam Reporting, Work At Home Scam Reporting, Work-At-Home Scam Reporting
Publication Status
Draft