I’m sure you’ve received a random text from a supposed employment recruiter recentlywe all have.
These texts, you likely realize, are scams.
No company is so desperate for workers that theyd message random numbers with job offers.
Some scam job offers arent so patently ridiculous though.
If you squint, those wordscouldbe describing an actual job, so I took the next step.
After checking whether it was a scam first, of course.
As you could see, scammers won’t tell you they’re fake.
Theyre only really concerned about the few people who bite anyway.
But this scam was a little deeper.
While that doesntdefinitelymake it a scam, its definitely a scam.
But I got to work anyway.
What is “work” anyway?
So I asked my coach.
After lunch, I clicked about five more items, then stopped.
I decided to knock off early for my first day.
They’re trying to make youbelievein a job long enough to send them money, but that’s all.
This is where the scam part comes in.
Pro tip: If a job asks you to sendthemmoney, don’t.
That’s the opposite of how jobs work.
Scam job offers do not.
“Customer service” asked for $33.
I asked if I could pay the $33 after I completed more work.
They said, “send $33.”
I told them I could send them a check.
“Has to be Cash App.
Send $33,” they said.
I explained that I was writing a blog post about scam jobs, and theystillasked for $33.
So I left ‘em on read.
What happens if you send money to a fake job scammer?
But they would eventually ask for another payment, probably higher than $33.
This cycle would repeat until I stopped sending them cash or their website disappeared.
There would never be a way for me to withdraw this money, because the money isn’t real.
So what did we learn?
It won’t be, but you might check.
I was actually surprised that I was able to waste so much of these scammers’ time.
