I’ve seen scams too many times, while helping my husband apply for work. Craigslist is a good way to get hit by these work-at-home scammers. Craigslist because these are user genrated ads.
Apply for a job, and you get an email. It tells you that they want you to do the work for them. Oh, happy day you got a job without being interviewed. Easy! No, dead wrong! What you got is a form asking you simple information. Simple information to get your information.
Many of these so-called jobs involve cashier check scams as well. You get an email telling you, again, you got the job. This company wants to mail you a cashier check, you can cash it, and you get to keep a portion. Yippie! No, now your in trouble with the bank.
Its good to follow the FBI’s page, New E-Scams & Warnings page, They state “Victims are often hired to “process payments,” “transfer funds,” or “reship products.” These job scams involve the victims receiving and cashing fraudulent checks, transferring illegally obtained funds for the criminals, or receiving stolen merchandise and shipping it to the criminals. Other victims sign up to be a “mystery shopper,” receiving fraudulent checks with instructions to cash the checks and wire the funds to “test” a company’s services. Victims are told they will be compensated with a portion of the merchandise or funds.”
Its sad, some of us are desperate for work, and some dont know these are scams. The excitement of having a job, and some money coming in, then to find out you have nothing, and may have been robbed!
Have any of these scams hit your email box? Please comment and share, your story can help someone else from being scammed!
Note: I’m not bashing Craigslist! I love Craigslist, but they’re user generated ads, so you have to be careful. I use Craigslist and Snagajob often for employment seeking.
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