How to spot and avoid Employment Scam | XA Technologies

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How to Not get Trap in Employment Scam?
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Searching for the job is highly demanding as well
as stressful, and it can sometimes be a blessing
when you finally see an advertisement of
responsibility which can pay you higher. But, you
are needed to be careful as employment scam are
on the rising. Most of the scammers post fake job
advertisements and take advantage of the victim
desire to get the job. While looking for the
job, it is highly essential to be aware of the
job as well as employment scams taking place.
Some of the scams offer a lot of income for
little or no effort. Else, they might ask you to
pay for materials or training before providing
employment. There are several ways individual
use to scam you in offering financial or
sensitive information utilizing fraudulent
approach. The most popular scams used to come
through email by the individuals you are not
aware off. These employment scams are mainly
posted on websites like Craigslist and other
highly known websites. The employers usually try
to take benefit of the individual who is not
familiar with the local employment standards
through statutory deductions. Read the whole blog
and learn more about how these scams work such
that you dont become a victim of it.
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What is an Employment Scam? An employment scam
is an attempt to attain the cash from the victims
by providing them with the jobs that do not
exist. These scams are taking place through the
internet with the use of either fraud websites,
or by sending unwanted emails. The scammer asks
for the personal data and tends to finalize fake
opportunity of employment. The employment scams
are usually a kind of advance fee scam, but the
mode they work is imperatively different and
sometimes much complicated. How does Employment
Scam Work? The scammer contacts via email,
phone, or letter and offer an individual a job
which needs little or no effort for high returns
or particular method to make money fastly.
Sometimes, you might come across some fake job
desires on the ad websites of classifieds. The
job on offer needs you to do some easy thing like
stuffing envelopes or gathering a product by
utilizing material which you have to buy from the
employer. To get started with the job, you will
be asked to pay for starter kit or documents
relevant to the scheme or job. If you pay the
fees, you will not get anything or what you have
been promised to get or expected. For instance,
instead of a business plan, you might be sent
some instructions on how to get other people to
join that same scheme.
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After you have done with your work, scammers will
refuse to pay you for the work which you have
done, using excuses that the work is not up to
the needed standard. The other kind of job
opportunity scam asks you to utilize the bank
account to send and receive the payment for an
international company. The scammers will promise
you to offer some commission for every amount you
submit. It is a kind of fraudulent means of
attaining money, which is a criminal
offense. So, if you provide your account details
to the scammer, they might use it to steal your
money or commit some other fraud
activities.  Symptoms of Employment Scams Here
are some clear warning signs of an employment
scam Receive an unwanted message or phone call,
which lets you know that you have been chosen to
apply for a unique job opportunity. You cannot
recognize this opportunity you used. You may come
across the job board websites, which promotes
high returns ads. After having a closer look, you
will notice that many of the jobs have an
identical description, and the roles have several
mistakes of grammar and typos. You will also feel
that the website is fake as it does not list any
physical address or landline number contains PO
number or mobile number.
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You might come across several ads online, which
claims that you will surely make a tremendous
amount of money if you apply for a job that
promotes ads.  The unwanted call, job ad, or
message claims that you can make a massive amount
of money without making many efforts and does not
have any job risk. The job they offer involves
working on the computer. Also, it can include
collecting the product, stuffing envelopes,
becoming PA, or a nanny. You might be asked to
pay for several starters, which is included in
the training process or offered with required
starting materials. You might be asked to deposit
a check which covers some expenses. The job
posters might ask you to accept the money
transfer directly to your bank account and then
send that money to another bank account. They
claim that you will get some percentage of that
amount as compensation.
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Some more Key Indicators. They asked to share
financial or personal details with job ads. Also,
they can ask you to provide the copies of your
confidential information and bank documents as
well as completing the job form sent by a
scammer. If you want to apply for the fake job
ad posted, you will be accepted as an employer
instantly, even without going through an
interview. The job roles and responsibilities
are entirely fake. The interviews are mainly
performed online through the messaging app. It
does not mean that every single offer of job
present there, which contains a messaging app in
the interview process is a scam, but you need to
be alert and careful. You will get the surety of
getting the job even before you have gone to give
the interview. The emails received are from free
emails provider like Yahoo, Gmail, instead of
professional company email. They will ask you
for face to face interview, you will find that
the interview taking place at home or some shady
establishment. Last but not least, the job
opportunity sounds too good to be true. If this
is the case, then surely it is a scam.
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Tips to Avoid Employment Scam Below are some
methods or ways which you can use to avoid
employment scam Research about the name of the
company, email address to sent resume, or phone
number through the search engine after adding
word scam. Make sure to do your homework by
checking the websites and doing proper research
of the company before you respond. Research the
name of the company and check if its right and
get more contact information as you can through
including employers name, phone number, website,
and email address. Make sure to search about the
company on LinkedIn to get existing employees in
an organization. Check out for the phishing
refers to emails as well as website design to
look like they are from trusted and recognized
business in an attempt to gather financial or
personal information. You can make sure to be
extra careful while responding to unwanted email,
even if the company is well known. Do not ever
click on the link or submit any information on
the website you have sent through email. The
links can result in the website, which looks
legal but is mainly run by the scammers. If you
want to avoid such emails and breach of personal
details you can use antivirus software and privacy
protection software.