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RE: How to Spot a Work at Home Recruitment Scam
It's a sad reality that there is a lot of this out there. I don't personally know anyone that has been conned by this or anything similar...do you?
I like that you put the work links in there. Super helpful and I may have a look at them myself. 😁
I recall when I had recently graduated from college there was this very lucrative sounding job that I had an interview for in Washington DC. I asked a friend about them before I went for the interview which was about 4 hours drive away and it turns out it was a multi-level marketing scheme. I think I would have flipped my top if I had turned up to the interview only to find out it was all a scam. This is before the internet was everything but the point is con artists have always existed.
Oh jeez. Don't even get me started on MLMs! I can clearly see that those at the top of the pyramids do oh-so-well. But their downlines? Not so much. They're sold on the dream that network marketing is easy, fun, or .... ethical. It's usually not any of these things, and even more rarely is it all three at the same time.
No, girl I went to middle school with and haven't spoken to since then, I do not want to join your damn team or buy your (probably) second-rate products. I'll buy my vitamins, essential oils, shakes, and printed leggings at the store without your pushy sales tactics or transparent recruitment attempts, thank you very much. (But I'm probably not buying that stuff at any store, either.)
So as for these specific scams, unfortunately, yes, I have personally seen people affected by this, and more than I care to see. (Damn scammers!)
They usually fall into one of two buckets:
If anyone who'd been offered a nonexistent position with our company has fallen for the scam all the way (checks cashed and all), we haven't heard from them. I imagine they're too busy trying to pick up the pieces of a very, very painful lesson to learn, and are possibly too embarrassed or overwhelmed to reach out to us.
This scam is ... prevalent. Unfortunately, there's not much to be done other than to report the issue to the email provider (so Google, etc) as well as the Crime Complaint Center (FBI) / Anti-Fraud Centre (Canada) / your local gov't agency that deals with this stuff.