| Even when unemployment is not at 25-year highs, people will look for a straightforward way to make a living. More than 17,000 work-from-home scams were reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2011 costing victims over $20 million. IC3 is a partnership between the FBI and National White Collar Crime Center that started in 2000, "To serve as a vehicle to receive, develop and refer criminal complaints regarding the swiftly expanding arena of cyber crime. Other common scams have an "employee" being asked to accept packages and sell the contents. A legitimate job will pay you money, not cost you money. '". The information they gather also gives them the ability to understand the most common scams and create public service campaigns designed to educate the public. According to the Federal Trade Commission Consumer Protection Division, a number of the scams involve the job seeker paying money for a kit or materials before making any income. If you have not reached out to a reputable company asking for information about a job, they are most likely not going to be sending you an email with a great offer of easy work with high pay. Understanding the term "unsolicited" email is one of the keys to protecting yourself from online scams. Let's go over the anatomy of a work-from-home scam so you are more apt to recognize it. An even simpler scam asks the "employee" to just accept transfers of funds into their bank account and pass on 90 percent of the funds to another party. |
Sunday, 10 June 2012
Beware of work-at-home scams
