The popularity of online social networks has also spawned a lot of new tactics and schemes for committing cyber fraud. Many thieves and organized criminal groups are continuing to target job seekers in LinkedIn for their newest bogus money-making opportunities and fake Web-based job offers. Large numbers of victims have recently posted scam complaints and filed Web crime reports in Big Scammers against similar types of confidence schemes and social manipulation tactics.
The main reason why crooks and scammers look for unsuspecting victims in LinkedIn is because this is where a lot of users go to find better job opportunities, freelancing gigs and prospect partners for viable business ventures and investment deals. Many LinkedIn users, especially those who have just recently signed up at this professional social network, don't expect to be victimized by cyber fraud in an online platform where professionals and businesses converge to talk about job offers and income-generating opportunities.
These criminals exploit their vulnerabilities by enticing them with fake job offers. A lot of victims end up unknowingly participating in product fencing operations and money laundering scams among other forms of cyber fraud, as they indicated in their anonymous scam complaints at BigScammers.Com. To help you quickly recognize these bogus offers in LinkedIn before it's too late - Here are some of the most prevalent fake job opportunities in this professional network today:
Most Widespread Forms of Cyber Fraud in LinkedIn This 2017
1. Reshipping Job Scams - Posing as representatives of popular international companies and multinational corporations, crooks send home-based job offers to new LinkedIn users. They entice their target victims with the promise of huge salaries and very minimal work, which mainly involves receiving products, re-packing them and shipping it to provided delivery destinations. Users who take this bogus job offer end up participating in global product fencing operations and other types of cyber fraud without their knowledge.
That's because the products are purchased by scammers using stolen credit cards and hacked bank accounts. This fraud is mainly used to provide them with layers of protection from being tracked down and identified. They pre-sell these products at very low prices to other criminals in the Deep Web. These buyers have anonymous safety drop-off points, making them difficult to catch.
2. Pre-Payment Scams - This fraud works by sending bogus offers to job seekers in LinkedIn. These are placement services that guarantee good jobs with lucrative salaries. All the user needs to do is to fill out an online application form and pay a certain sum of money to start processing his or her job application.
This means victims don't just lose money to this cyber fraud, but their personal information and private details are also stolen. Many fraudsters use their details to sell fake identity packages to other criminals in the Deep Web. These are used for committing other more serious types of Web crimes, such as purchasing illegal porn, drugs, firearms and the like.
To avoid similar forms of cyber fraud, you should learn about the newest Web scams and online crimes the moment they happen. This will allow you to devise suitable ways to quickly recognize potential scams and safely avoid related Internet crimes before it's too late. You can do this through BigScammers.com. Just simply sign up at this online community, and you'll receive instant fraud alerts in your email inbox.
