Work At Home Job Scams On The Rise
Jan 2, 2009 Internet, Jobs, Scams and Identity Theft
As times get harder and the economy in many countries are in recession, more and more persons are losing their jobs and thus looking for new ways to make money. Many of them are seeking work from home jobs that would enable them to stay at home and spend more time with their families. Even persons who still have their jobs are seeking ways out of the 9-to-5 hassle, looking for jobs that they can do from home. Unfortunately though, there are individuals out there who are seeking to scam such persons out of the little money that they have, promising “jobs” that in the end never live up to the hype and expectations that are promised. I posted articles on two of my other blogs about job scams that everyone should look out for. Here are a few of my previous posts on this issue:
1. http://www.kgbiz05.com/businessblog/tag/scams/
2. http://www.kgbiz05.com/blog/tag/scams/
I have stated time and time again that if someone is offering you a job, there is no way that they can rightly ask you, the job seeker, to pay them money in order for you to secure a position with their company. I like how Sharon Davis of “The Work At Home Blog” put it in one of her recent posts entitled Work at home scammers are targeting the jobless: “You go for a job interview and the interviewer introduces himself and then says, ‘Before we get started, I’m going to need 39 bucks from you. Just to make sure that you’re serious.’ Wait, what? That would make no sense at all right, and you’d walk right out of there. An online or work at home job is no different.” Many of the ads placed online in classifieds, blogs, newsletters and on websites promise fantastic earnings that would allow you to live like a king in just a matter of months. There are also those that tell you from the start that you will not get rich quickly working for them but that you will be able to comfortably pay your bills each month and have a little to spend and save a little after paying your bills. For all these job opps, you are required to pay a “small” fee that will allow you to gain access to their programs. The truth be told, though, is that the majority of these work from home jobs NEVER meet up to the expectations of those who sign up for them. Far from it, they are simply the means by which scam artists use to fleece people of their hard-earned cash.
My advice to all of you who are seeking jobs that allow you to work from home, in fact any job at all, is that you should NEVER pay someone to hire you. That is plain stupid and makes no sense. If someone came to me offering me a job and then asked me for a small “processing fee”, I would smack him upside the head! People, be smart. I have tried a few of these job opps in the early days and never got anywhere with them. Been there, done that! So, please, if you see an email come to you offering a work from home job that you have to pay to secure, delete it immediately. Report such emails to the Better Business Bureau and your local fraud authorities.
All I am saying in short is this: NEVER pay for a job that is being offered to you. It is the person who is offering you the job that should be forking out any money, NOT YOU. You have been warned!
Tags: id theft, identity theft, job scams, online scams, phishing, scams, work at home scams
Sneaky Email Scams That You Should Be Aware Of
Feb 12, 2008 Advice, Computers & Internet, Education, Email Scams, Internet, Scams and Identity Theft
In order to get people’s money and identities nowadays, there are thieves out there who will “go the extra mile” to gain ill-gotten profits for themselves. What has become a very common way of doing this is through email messages sent to unsuspecting individuals telling them that they have won money in online lotteries after their email address was picked from a million others. The amounts people are said to “win” varies, and as I have seen for myself can go up to $20,000,000, and even more. I have received so many of these emails that if they were all true, I would be a multi-billionaire by now! In any case, if you should happen to get one of these emails in your inbox, disregard it and delete it immediately. DO NOT RESPOND TO THE QUERIES OF THE EMAIL. They generally ask that you send them your name, address, occupation, telephone number, etc. in order to “claim your funds” – in reality it is the way in which they get info on you and thus try to get money by pretending to be you.
Another popular scam is where you receive an email from someone who addresses you as “Dearly Beloved” or comes to you in “The Name of Jesus”. These phrases are used to fool people into believing that the sender of the email has your best interest at heart or that they are desperately in need of funds for a non-existent charity or to fund a “life-saving” surgery. Many even go as far as putting up fake websites which they make reference to in their emails so as to appear legit. You may find these sites online for a while, but they quickly fade away and soon become non-existent. Do not be fooled. These people are only seeking ways to get your money. Do not send them any money nor respond to their request for your personal information.
Tags: chain letter scams, email lottery scams, email phishing, Email Scams, identity theft, lottery scams, mail scams, online scams, phishing, scams, sneaky scams
