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Unemployment rates are at a record highs, leaving people more vulnerable to scams. Scammers use legitimate job sites and use names of legitimate companies in an attempt to fraud job seekers. Watch the above video and beware from scammers.

Sings the job might be a scam (any one of these should trigger you to research the position in depth):

• The job is a “work from home” type of jobs. Many times involves processing checks.
• The job requires you to pay an up front membership fee or any other fee. NEVER pay for a job or a lead to a job.
• Many times, the job description will have spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.
• You never met the person who interviewed you.
• You are requested to send your resume with your social security number, mother’s maiden name, credit card number, bank account information, or date of birth before meeting with the employer.
• No company will ask you for your passwords
• You are requested to purchase equipment or send payment for equipment (e.g. computer, scanner, etc)
• Scammers create email accounts with free email providers such as Yahoo and Gmail. The email addresses might look legit but remember that most legit employers will use their company email accounts for hiring purposes.
• Beware of any job that sounds too good to be true.

How to avoid scams:

• If you’re not sure about the company/job in question – call directly to the company (not the number on the emails you receiving) and inquire if the job is real. Do some research to protect yourself before disclosing any personal information.
• If you’re not sure – better question the job BEFORE sending any information to the prospective employer
• If you are tech savvy and know how to get the IP addresses of the person who’s sending you emails (here’s how), you could use a website such as IP2Location to track where the email came from. If the company is based in the United States, usually there’s no reason why an email will be sent to you on their behalf from Nigeria.
• Use common sense.

A friend forwarded this email – I thought I’d post it here to see if it’s obvious to you that this scam is as blatant as they come! Scams targeting job seekers are on the rise. Would you have known this isn’t real?

Here it is:

Dear Sir/Ma,

Would you like to work online from Home/Temporarily and get paid weekly? We are glad to offer you for a job position in our organization AB Textiles Ltd. based in UK. We need someone to work for the company as a Representative/Book keeper in the USA. This is in view of our not having an office presently in the USA.You don’t need to have an office and this certainly won’t disturb any form of work you have going at the moment.

Your tasks are:
1. Receive payment from Customers and co-ordinate payments.
2. Receiving and re-mailing of official letters.
3. Cashing or process payment at your Bank.
4. Deduct 7% which will be your percentage/pay on Payment processed
5. Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay to any of the offices you will be contacted to send funds to through Money transfers. This takes barely hours, so it will give us a possibility to get customer’s payment almost immediately.

For example you got $3000.00, you take your income/fringe benefit: $210.00 Send to us: $2790.00, First month you will have 15-20 transactions on $3000.00-$6000.00 so you may calculate your income. For example 18 transactions on $3500.00 gives you $4410.00 Plus your basis monthly salary is $1000.00 Total: $5410.00 per month. Our payments will be issued out in your name and you can have them cashed at your bank or other Cashing Services, deduct your benefit and forward the balance to the company.

We are looking only for the worker who satisfies our requirements and will be a honest assistant, we understand it is an an incredible job offer and we are glad to offer this job position to you. Should you feel that you are capable of handling this job, serious and honest worker and you want to work for AB Textiles Ltd, kindly email us the following information about you:

1.Full Names______________
2 Detailed Address____________
3 Sex___________
4 Age ________
5 Current Occupation________
6 Phone numbers________

Thank you.

Richard Winston
General Manager.
AB Textiles.
191 Wigston Lane
Aylestone
Leicester
LE2 8DJ
Leicestershire