Almost all organized crime syndicates and fraudsters constantly monitor financial, political and social trends in their target countries. After all, the general public's collective sentiment is significantly affected by these factors. This in turn dictates their behavior in online and offline places, situations and events. This is mainly why new scams on the Internet emerge from time to time.
Bad elements create fraudulent tactics and schemes that match their target victim group's collective behavior in Web platforms and applications, especially those that are susceptible to vulnerability exploits and social manipulation tactics. For example, the financial crisis that hit global economies a few years ago is still significantly affecting the unemployment and poverty rates of almost all countries today. Many users continue to go to popular professional and social networks on the Web to find solutions to these problems. This is one of the main reasons behind the rapidly increasing prevalence of scams on the Internet that involve fake job offers, bogus money-making opportunities and rogue investment ventures.
A lot of users worldwide recently posted Web crime reports in BigScammers.Com against scams on the Internet that involve bogus job offers. Many of their complaints indicate that LinkedIn is one of the most widely used distribution channels for these fake opportunity scams. That's because this professional network is the most popular platform where job seekers go to find gainful employment vacancies, freelancing gigs, money-making ventures and viable business opportunities. This gives criminal groups and fraudsters a ready group of victims for their deceptive schemes.
What Are the Most Recent Job Scams on the Internet?
1. Reshipping Fraud - Many LinkedIn users posted complaints in Big Scammers against fake job offers that promise lucrative home-based employment vacancies at Fortune 500 companies. These scams require them to receive products, re-package it and ship it to overseas locations. They're guaranteed large sums of money for their work. Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, it actually is.
What these unsuspecting users don't know is that the expensive products that'll be sent to them are purchased with stolen credit cards and hacked bank accounts. Similar scams on the Internet have caused victims to unknowingly participate in product fencing operations. A few have even been charged by the authorities in their countries for their participation in these illegal activities, according to some recent posts in Big Scammers.
2. Fake Job Offers at Federal Agencies & Postal Offices - Some American users who frequently hang out in LinkedIn have been victimized by bogus job opportunities. They claim in their scam complaints and Web crime reports at BigScammers.Com that they received LinkedIn InMails with promises of guaranteed jobs at federal agencies and postal offices. They're asked to fill out long application forms with their private details and send scanned copies of their government-issued photo IDs. Just like phishing scams - These are designed to steal their personal details, identity documents and social security numbers among other confidential credentials.
Not too many users realize that they've been victimized by similar. They just think that they weren't accepted for the job offers. Others just learn about these Web scams after reading relevant posts and pages in online communities like Big Scammers.
To learn more rogue job offers and other widespread scams on the Internet today, sign up at BigScammers.Com. Also visit the regularly updated repository of this online community to instantly access helpful guides and resources that can allow you to quickly recognize similar scams and safely avoid the latest Web crimes this year.
