Employment Scams (Job Scams)

    

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That are Job Scams and how do they work?

Employment Scams (Job Scams) are just one more way in which scammers separate hard-working people from their money. There are many variations and the Internet has been a God-send to these leeches, but almost all of them use some form of check fraud, whether it's receiving ('processing') counterfeit or redirected checks, forwarding stolen goods or the proceeds from selling stolen goods to a third party.

Most Internet jobs are advertised as Work From Home or Work At Home (WAH) and are intended to target home makers, retired people, disabled people, students and other people who just want to make a little extra cash, while staying at home.

Transaction Processing Assistant, Reshipping Agent, Goods Forwarding Executive, Processing Online Auction Listings are all job descriptions that are being used. The scammers haunt online job and classified ad websites (Monster.com, Craigslist.com, Dice.com etc) and forums where they use people to scatter bomb links to their worthless websites.

In most cases, they use Spam, to deliver their message. The website names change, often monthly, as thier website gets blacklisted. The websites are enticing, always seem to take the same format which should ring alarm bells:

1. Lots of Graphics, pictures of money, cars, holiday destinations etc.
2. Shouty text, Imperitives, exclamation marks, colored, large pointsize text.
3. Very Very long pages - you scroll down and down and it never seems to end - the, at the very bottom, there's the deal.
4. Lots and Lots of testimonials
5. They almost always tell you that the jobs are 'scam-free', or 'totaly legitimate'. Some WAH sites even use the fact that there are a lot of scammers out there to promote their own (presumably non-scam) WAH jobs.
6. Extremely low qualifications required, almost always demand you have access to an Internet connected computer.
7. Payment of a fee may be required for 'training materials' or some magic list (companies, people, products etc).
8. Pay is fantastically great! $100/hour, $9,000 a week etc etc.
9. Very scant details of location of the 'employer' - no address, phone number (beyond the 1800). Domain name will have existed for a very short time - Check with domainwhitepages.com. Type in the domain name and look at the 'Creation Date' on the Domain Whois Record. If it's less than six months ago, forget it!.

If you are thinking that you have nothing to lose, you may be wrong. If your address is used as a receiving address for counterfeit checks or stolen products and you forward money/goods from your home address, you could be prosecuted for Money Laundering, Posession of Stolen Goods or Trafficking in Stolen Goods.

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