fake jobs – Page 2 – Fightback Ninja Blog

The idea of being paid to work at home trying out new products such as iPhones and then being allowed to keep the products free of charge, is very appealing.

It is clearly not going to happen, but large numbers of people are attracted to these sorts of adverts.

These adverts can appear on any social media platform and in the press but are mostly seen on Facebook currently.

There are Marketing companies that will on occasion pay people to try products, but this is very limited, pays very little and you don’t get to keep anything valuable. Plus, the demand for such ‘work’ is so high that the companies involved don’t need to put out mass advertising – they generally have a list of people they trust to do such testing according to the rules they set.

So, almost all such adverts (possibly above 99%) you will see asking for product testers are scams.

Typically, the scammers ask for personal information as part of registration e.g. name, address, contact numbers, date of birth, bank details etc.

They can sell this to other criminals for identity theft purposes or get you to pay a registration fee or similar small charge then keep you hanging on, while they do everything they can to make money from you.

Some of these scammers are Marketing companies who try to stay just inside the law by occasionally giving a free gift to someone.

They make the money – they win. You lose.

If you have any experiences with these scams do let me know, by email.

Fake Work at Home jobs are commonly scams and arrive by email, through fake websites, social media posts etc.

One class of these scams is the supposedly highly paid data entry jobs.

Most emails etc. will make it clear they are about data entry but some use the word ‘typing’ instead.

A typical email title might be ‘Typing Jobs – Highest Paid in LA’.

Could someone really be trying to advertise typing jobs in a world where typewriters are only found in museums? More likely it’s a mis-translation that is supposed to say ‘data entry jobs’ or ‘keyboard work’.

The email talks about how easy it is make Facebook posts and claims people are being paid up to $500 per day for such tasks while working from home.

The scammers may quote Jenny Lewis of the Home Trust Network as its expert on these work at home jobs.

But Jenny Lewis is just a seller of these kinds of ‘opportunities’ so she isn’t really the best person to trust.

Of course, there are some jobs keying in data of some kind – whether it’s making Facebook posts or keying data into a database or typing tweets or articles etc. But, by their nature most of these tasks are very dull and repetitive and don’t pay highly because there’s any number of temp agencies happy to provide people to do these tasks quickly and efficiently.

However, there is a huge demand for work at home jobs that pay reasonably and can be done at the person’s convenience. There’s far more demand than there are such jobs and that’s where then scammers jump in to take advantage of people’s hopes.

Be very wary if you are looking for a work at home job as on average 59 out of 60 advertised online are scams.

See blog post https://fightback.ninja/work-from-home-scams/

If you have any experiences with scammers, spammers or time-waster do let me know, by email.