Oh my god, didn't you get the memo in your spam email box? You can get rich by working from home! Writing! All you have to do is write letters, silly-face. And you thought you had to pitch and get assignments. The scary thing is, I got this link from the Worldwide Freelance Writer Newsletter. Feels a bit like when I see all the commercials about consolodating your debts on daytime TV.

There are a lot of numbers being thrown around in this 'article.'

If I know I’m going to need an extra $20,000 to, say, put down on a new car or rent a summer beach house, I’ll merely sit down and write two quick letters.

You see, I write promotional letters for the $1.81 trillion direct-response industry. (Yes, that’s trillions!)

$160,000 From One Letter

Basically, it tells you that the money you earn is just based on how many letters you choose to write, so if you're too busy hanging out in your summer beach house or driving your new car, you don't have to write too many. How can this possibly fail? It's been given the thumbs up by the American Writers & Artists Institute.

Of course you do have to pay to acquire all this knowledge. You can't just give these sort of moneymaking secrets away, you know. Although as somebody who had to write plenty of direct mail in her short stint as a copywriter, I can say that direct mail is less exhilarating that alphabetizing your spice rack, and it pulled me a gigantor salary in the extremely-low $20,000's. Where was my summer country house?

Moral of the story that I'm still learning to this day: Just because it has the word "writer" on it doesn't mean it can be trusted.