Anyone who looks up "work-at-home" on a search engine will be instantly flooded with all sorts of offers for supposed opportunities that can earn you money. Many of these are complete frauds and not worth the time you would take to read them. Many stuffing envelopes, multi-level selling schemes and paid-to-read and paid-to-click sites fall into the scam category.
One opportunity that reads like a scam but really can turn out to be legitimate is the paid to make crafts offers. The headlines for these shout out that you can get paid to make crafts at home to the tune of hundreds of dollars a week just by assembling jewelry, making key chains, or sewing appliqu s on baby products. While this definitely raises a red flag as a too-good-to-be-true ploy, it has some decent basis behind it.
First of all, making these crafts aren't easy. In fact many of them require a very real amount of skill and talent to pull off. Second of all, only perfect specimens of the crafts will be accepted and therefore "bought" by the company hiring you to get paid to make crafts. Who will in-turn sell them for a profit.
See, the way they word their agreement with you is that you are independent from them and once the crafts are completed, by following their directions, they will buy back any that meet their strict specifications. IF you are truly talented, you could always sell crafts as a part-time business and cut out the hassle of the picky middleman.