{"id":1012,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1012"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"Beware-of-Bogus-Amazon-Job-Offers-Asking-For-Upfront-Payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Bogus Amazon Job Offers Asking For Upfront Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Online scammers are exploiting jobseekers by offering seemingly well-paid work-from-home jobs with Internet giant Amazon. \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbb.org\/en\/us\/article\/scams\/18323-scam-alert-phony-amazon-job-asks-applicants-to-pay-upfront\">Better Business Bureau in the US notes that<\/a> reports about this type of scam have been steadily increasing in recent months.<\/p>\n<h2>How the Scams Work<\/h2>\n<p>You get a phone message or email inviting you to apply for a job at Amazon. The message claims that the work will entail website tasks such as writing reviews and listing products. Supposedly, \u00a0 you can do the work from your own home and will be paid up to $6000 per month.<\/p>\n<p>You are instructed to visit a website and fill in a form to apply for the position. \u00a0 Soon after, you will be informed that you have got the job.<\/p>\n<p>But, there&#8217;s a catch. You&#8217;ll be told that, if you want the job, you will need to pay several hundred dollars for an &#8220;enrollment kit&#8221; upfront.<\/p>\n<p>If you pay up, the scammers will disappear with your money and you will not be able to contact them again. \u00a0 And, of course, you will never get the promised job, which never existed in the first place. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\"\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\n     data-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"9162856233\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p> The criminals now have your credit card details and any other \u00a0identifying information that you submitted on the bogus website.<\/p>\n<p>The scammers \u00a0create slick looking job recruitment websites with phony job application forms and ways to purchase the fake job kits. \u00a0 These scam sites are taken offline soon after the scammers have tricked some victims into submitting \u00a0their information and paying for the imaginary job kits.<\/p>\n<p>New versions of the scam job sites with different web addresses will then be put up. And the cycle begins again.<\/p>\n<h2>Be Wary of &#8220;Too Good to be True&#8221; Job Offers<\/h2>\n<p>Be very cautious of unsolicited job offers that promise lucrative positions working from home.<\/p>\n<p>Some are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/payment-transfer-job-scams-money-laundering-scams\/\">scams designed to trick people into laundering money<\/a>. \u00a0 Others are designed to trick \u00a0people into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/reshipping-fraud-parcel-mule-scams\/\">receiving and resending \u00a0goods<\/a> purchased with stolen credit cards.<\/p>\n<p>And, many, like the one described here, are designed to trick people into divulging personal information and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/hilton-hotel-job-offer-scam-email\/\">paying upfront fees for jobs that do not exist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are applying online for a job with a high-profile company, make sure you are on the company&#8217;s legitimate website or dealing with a genuine recruiting agency \u00a0or job portal.<\/p>\n<p>If you receive \u00a0an unsolicited \u00a0job offer, do not respond until you have conducted some research. \u00a0 A quick online search will often reveal if a job offer message that you have received is a scam. \u00a0 If in doubt, contact the company directly to ask about the position being offered.<\/p>\n<p>And, any job offer that requires you to pay an upfront fee should be treated as highly suspect.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Third Content Ad Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1909104632\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Bottom AdLinks --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\" data-ad-slot=\"1358951439\" data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/beware-of-bogus-amazon-job-offers-asking-for-upfront-payments\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/beware-of-bogus-amazon-job-offers-asking-for-upfront-payments\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online scammers are exploiting jobseekers by offering seemingly well-paid work-from-home jobs with Internet giant Amazon. \u00a0 \u00a0 The Better Business Bureau in the US notes that reports about this type of scam have been steadily increasing in recent months. How the Scams Work You get a phone message or email inviting you to apply for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}