By Many these days receive fake messages from fake company job offers, service or investment offers. You might be surprised by what kind of sophisticated scammers are out there. Learn how to spot them.
Fake investment opportunity
This fake offer usually comes via phishing emails from people you don’t know. It may encompass various investment types. You need to be particularly cautious with the new Initial Coin Offerings, new medical treatment products and equipment and other research projects.
Usually, they promise you to get rich overnight once their product, service, and new token gets enough publicity and reaches the market. The things with an investment are more complicated than that.
However, even if they don’t get you YES they will be eager to get as much as possible info from you and steal your precious data. Data is the gold of our century, so make sure you are not divulging anything unnecessary to them, such as bank account numbers, your family members birthdays, passport numbers and many more.
What if you are a victim of fake investment?
The first reflex is to call the police and financial authorities in your country. Maybe you have lost some amounts, but your duty is also to protect other possible victims. Screenshot everything you have from the communication with the fraudsters and determine all contact with them straight away.
Job scams: who are they?
People are receiving a message on their landline from a robot proposing a job offer supposedly from head hunters and HR with the description “interesting and enticing” and inviting them to type in their username and personal code to find out more. It is important not to answer them.
Cybercriminals are at work on the internet. They pose as real recruiters to applicants by posting fake job offers or contacting them directly with a fake job offer.
These false proposals and job offers most often take all the appearances of reality and seek to attract candidates with particularly attractive remuneration and/or flexible working hours.
Their goal is to extract money from applicants or steal sensitive personal information (bank details, social security numbers, etc.) for fraudulent use.
How to protect yourself?
US job portals publish fact sheets that give you practical prevention tips to protect you from job scams.
You are therefore reminded never to send personal information (bank identity statement, social security number, copy of identity documents, etc.) to a recruiter until you have met them.
You should also never pay money to a potential recruiter or accept money from a future employer until you have signed an employment contract.
If you receive a job offer that you think is dishonest, don’t follow through.
What to do if you are a victim of a job scam??
If you believe you have been the victim of an attempted job scam, immediately terminate all contact with the so-called recruiter.
If you have transmitted your banking information, notify your bank immediately and verify the movements on your bank account.
In the files, legal information is also given to you to define and put words on the damage suffered and to file a complaint.
