Beware of Fraudulent Job Posts
At Insourced, we knew that having a free job board would invite many spammers and scam artists to post fraudulent jobs and other “work opportunities” that are ultimately designed to con responders out of their money. We were notified today of one in particular (thank you, Patricia) that we’ve actually encountered outside of our job board while placing an apartment for rent on Craigslist.com.
The job post in question was lightly disguised as a bookkeeper/receptionist position and offered responders the opportunity to make easy money by depositing cashier’s checks or money orders and then returning the amount back to an address supplied by the sender. The depositor is allowed to keep the “excess” funds as payment for submitting the check to their account. In this scam, the cashier’s checks and money orders are fake and will ultimately be rejected by the financial institution where they are submitted. But they sometimes slip through the initial deposit process and the unwitting depositor assumes that the fake check will clear their account. If the amount is $1500, the check scammer may only ask for $1000 in return and the responder is told to keep $500 as payment for their efforts.
Obviously, this would sound like a scam to most savvy people, but there are many of us out there that are not cynical enough to think that this sounds too good to be true. And, even the skeptical could be fooled if they are able to initially submit the fake check to their bank and it doesn’t get caught until after they have already mailed off the $500 to the scammer.
These scams are everywhere, and job boards are no exception.
A primary function of the Insourced Job Board is to ensure that we remove these bogus job postings as quickly as possible and we were able to do that today. We also continue to rely on the support of our users to report spam and fraudulent job posts and use our inThing rating system to vote down jobs that seem illegitimate. With your help, we will continue to keep our jobs clean.
Just another warning to read everything carefully, do a little homework and NEVER send your money anywhere without confirming the legitimacy of the transaction.
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There is stiff competition in the job market. Unemployment is on the rise. Large numbers of applications are received by companies for limited number of posts. But there is dearth of skilled manpower in the industry. So both potential
I think you have do the same personal development things to stay employed as you to stay self employed. I don’t think self employment is a better guarantee of continued employment.