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This stuff is so much worse than the article lets on. The worst fake jobs are money mule scams, meaning that these poor job seeking individuals will likely run
by tehwebguy 6y ago
This stuff is so much worse than the article lets on.
The worst fake jobs are money mule scams, meaning that these poor job seeking individuals will likely run around town "doing work" and end up $2k - $20k in the hole, depending on how eager they are.
Manager sends them a check to deposit, then asks them to take care of some payments. This can be standard ("you'll be running payroll, we are a small company so you can just do it from your account"), or they can try to make it seem small ("I need to send some iTunes gift cards to these top customers as a thank you, you can take the leftovers as a bonus because you've been doing great").
The checks don't bounce for a few days, even a few weeks sometimes, so the confidence grows and they keep doing more. Then like clockwork the money they deposited into their account disappears but at this point they've spent thousands and have no recourse to get it back (and now they are effectively burned from using banking)
- lifeisstillgood 6y agoOh is this the source of the "make thousands from home" ads? I am still not clear how this works - and would it not be in the interests of police etc to loudly proclaim how this works so people can spot it?
- notahacker 6y agoA lot of the 'make money from home' ads are MLM too, with a similar effect on the unlucky recruits' bank balances.
- AtlasBarfed 6y agoAll MLM s come with a sell the idiots the tools scam, in addition to the regular MLM scam.
- redis_mlc 6y ago> is this the source of the "make thousands from home" ads? Sometimes. > the interests of police In the US, the interests of the police are to make it to retirement (or fake disability) doing as little work as possible. Notice how that's completely different from your interests. The exception is that States Attorneys in NY and FL often will get involved to protect their retirees, and lead the rest of the nation.
- ericbarrett 6y agoI think these ads front a range of schemes, from boring old check fraud (as described) to pyramid schemes to money muling.