The FBI recently issued a warning about a new variation of the work at home scam. Scammers posing as staffing or recruiting agencies contact their targeted victims by phone calls or text messaging offering simple to perform jobs such as rating restaurants. The pay structure for the job is purposefully confusing and requires the targeted victim to make cryptocurrency payments in order to earn their pay. The scammers provide computer based records which indicate that the targeted victim is earning money, but when the victim tries to take money out, he or she learns there is nothing there.
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There are a number of major red flags that indicate that this is a scam. The interview for the job is very quick and doesn't require any references which is an indication that this is not legitimate. Perhaps most tellingly, the job requires the victim to pay funds through cryptocurrency to the phony employer. No legitimate job requires you to make payments to your employer and no legitimate employer requires payments made by cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies are a favorite method of payment of scammers due to their anonymity. Any time you are asked to make a payment for anything by cryptocurrency you should immediately be skeptical.
It is important to remember that even if your Caller ID indicates the call is coming from a legitimate employment agency, it is a simple matter for a scammer to "spoof" a number and make the call appear to be from a legitimate source when it is not.
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