Countless work-at-home web sites claim you can earn thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. For instance, maybe you're handy and would like to assemble flies for fly-fishing or other products -- at home.

Gone Fish'n Tackle Company promises to pay 50 cents per fly. But there's a catch, according to Greg Daugherty of Consumer Reports.

"After you pay for the materials from Gone Fish'n, you'd have to tie more than 30 flies an hour just to make minimum wage."

Longtime fisherman Charles George says even with his experience, he couldn't tie that many good flies in an hour -- and certainly not all day long.

"I don't think it is easy money," George said.

Another site - www.myeasyhomejob.com - promises to teach you how to make as much as $350,000 a year stuffing envelopes and mailing company circulars.

"We paid $67 for access to a web site that tells you how to place ads and ensnare other people in get-rich-quick schemes," Daugherty said.

Then there's Google Money Tree, which is not affiliated with the Google search engine. It claims its free CD will tell you an amazing secret of selling on the internet.

"The information isn't very helpful and if you don't cancel within a week, the company will charge your credit card $72 a month for access to its web site," Daugherty said.

Before you sign up for any offer, check with the Better Business Bureau. It gave all three of these companies a big F.

"In general, we get lots of inquiries and complaints about this kind of situation," Simone Leung said.

Leung says the names of the companies are always changing, but any sort of fee upfront is a red flag that an internet job offer is not legitimate.

"Here in B.C. it is illegal for them for them to ask you for a fee," Leung said. "So right there you know it's not a job."

Another red flag is "no experience necessary" and the guarantee of ridiculous amounts of money.

"You can't guarantee money providing this kind of a service," she said. "They can't make you those kinds of guarantees -- how can they prove that?"

Consumer Reports contacted all three companies it investigated, but only Gone Fish'n responded. A spokesperson says dissatisfied customers can get a full refund on the fly-tying kit within 45 days of purchase.

With a report from CTV British Columbia's Chris Olsen