There are numerous offers on employment websites offering
'wonderful work from home job opportunities'. The offers are irresistible,
making one wonder about the 'unnecessary fuss’ about unemployment'.
These 'work from home' job opportunities make it so
simple.....flexible timings.....work from home....weekly/monthly
payment.....opportunity to earn large sums of money....no special skills
required......just copy and paste.... etc., the list is endless. Bottomline, most of such claims are bogus, they are just another type of money fraud.
Cashing in on the desperation of the unemployed, scammers
have plotted devious ways of cheating two categories of people - those in need,
and those with greed. All the jobs that are offered appear easy to accomplish
with minimum of resources. The catch
lies in a 'small security deposit', a 'one time payment', a 'registration fee'
or some fancy term that appears innocuously somewhere in the 'registration
form'. This is the giveaway that it is
just another. What needs to be understood is that any firm giving employment will
not charge a fee, either refundable or non-refundable. Would any employee make
a "one time" security deposit with Facebook on being granted a work
contract? No. The same applies to every
job.
The site would require the user to deposit the amount into a
bank account. A simple verification of the bank account would reveal that the
account of the so called "reputed company" would be in a distant
geographical location, away from where the firm allegedly is located. Contact
numbers, if any, would also belong to fictitious identities. None of the three
aspects would match - address, bank account or phone connection - another
reason to confirm that you are about to become the victim of a money fraud.
The reason why such scammers thrive is simple, the amount of
money that they make you part with is not very big. But with a lot many people
being cheated, the conman pockets a very nice sum. People refrain from lodging
a complaint, because of the size of the amount deposited individually.
Listed below are a few points to nudge you away from being taken
for a ride by some form of money fraud.
1. Legitimate sites that offer real jobs do not charge any
fee
2. Legitimate firms would have a brick and mortar address
with contact details
3. Sites that offer data entry jobs, with different rates
for accuracy, which are validated in a manner that is not transparent method is
an indication of a rip-off, a fine tuned money fraud.
4. There are legitimate sites that offer home based job
opportunities, but they do not charge fees, and the potential to earn money is
at moderate levels.
5. Legitimate sites
would not aggressively pursue an applicant, bombarding him or her with repeat
offers of the "home based job".
6. The catchword
"no skills required" is the giveaway to a scam. If it were so, then
all unskilled people will be employed.
7. Such scams are aimed at all. It is a virtual "one
job that suits all" campaign, that just can't be true.
By taking a careful and considered, unhurried view of the
claims of such websites it is possible to easily thwart the efforts of such
people and help others also in the process. By suffixing the word
"fraud" or "cheat" to the name of the firm and entering the
same in Google search, it is possible to ascertain if the firm or individual is
genuine or just another money fraud.
