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The possibility of making money while staying in the comfort of your home sounds very enticing. Due to the pandemic, more and more people have been inclining towards working from home opportunities. But, with the rise in demand for work from home, there has also been a rise in scammers on the web.
Scammers are again on the rise and are tricking people into fake work-from-home opportunities. For people, it has become difficult to distinguish between a legitimate job and fraudulent work-from-home opportunities. Scam artists have become craftier with their schemes. They pose as fake recruiters and make desperate job seekers their prey.
Though there are many legitimate remote jobs on the web for remote workers, the first step towards your success is knowing how to read between the lines and being able to figure out whether the job you are applying for is legitimate or not.
The best trick used by these scammers to lure you in is by giving over-the-top benefits and high salaries, but just remember that you should never dive into such opportunities haphazardly without doing your research. In this blog post, we will outline 4 red flags you should look for to help you distinguish between a genuine and a scam remote job.
When The Employer Is Asking For Personal Information
If you land on a remote job and it asks for your personal information before any formal job offer, this can be seen as a sign that it might be a scam. Never give your personal information, such as your address, banking details, social security number, or passport number freely. Scammers use all of this information to steal your money, use your identity, and worse, to commit a crime. So, always keep your confidential information private. You should only give your personal information or financial details once you have been officially hired and they need your information to pay you. Even then, you should never give your social security number or pin code to them.
Pro Tip: If you ever have to submit your confidential information online, just make sure that the website you are visiting is secure. The website should be https:// instead of http://, the additional ‘s’ stands for secure.
When The Employer Asks For Upfront Money
This is one of the biggest red flags. If the employer is asking for you to pay upfront in order to be considered for a job, then you should immediately go the other direction. There are many ways scammers ask for money, such as they may ask you to send money for training, travel charges, visa, or passport cost.
Some may ask you to buy the required software in order to start your work. These all are ways through which they can steal money from you. If any remote job employer is asking you to give some money before getting hired, just stay away from that job. Always remember that you are looking for a job to get paid, not the other way around.
When The Hiring Emails Are Coming From A Free Or Generic Email Account
If you are hired for a remote job, you should get an email from the official company or business email account. Authentic companies hiring managers and recruiters use an official company or business email to send correspondence. So, if you receive an email from a recruiter from a free or generic email account, consider it as a red flag.
The best way to find out whether the email is legitimate, or a scam is by running a quick Google search. Just copy-paste the email on the search box and add the word ‘scam’ afterward. This way, you will be able to find out whether the email address is genuine or a scam.
When It Just Seems Too Good To Be True
You may come across ads like to make this much money in a day, all these get-rich-quick schemes are fake. Other indicators of a fake job include very high salaries, no prior experience and are offered without an interview. All such jobs are a scam and you should stay away from them. Let’s face it, in real life earning money requires hard work, so jobs that are offering high-end salaries without any prior experience are just a fraud to get money out of you. So the best way to stay away from these scams is by looking for jobs on an authentic marketplace.
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