New easy money con, same old tricks

Fake high-paying part/full-time job registrations 

Certain fake online adverts posted by online firms or individuals promise to help visitors earn six figures through part-time or full-time work-from-home jobs in less than three months. In reality, the visitors are defrauded by these sites offering employment where they seek to gather the interested people's data (personal & professional details).  

The visitors pay a registration fee, and in most cases, they are asked to undergo online training, where they are provided with training videos and PDF documents to help them learn methods to work. Mostly, the techniques are adopted to generate sales pitches and get the visitors to pay for them.  

Once individuals get registered to such offers, they make little money. Some registered members who found it a fake offer could not recover the membership fee.  

The scammers threaten, persuade, befriend, and pressure the prey to make an early decision and click on some shady links to suffer a terrible data breach, which leads to a strange bombardment of unscrupulous adverts. 

Those who indulge in online trades or crypto investments fail to earn any money; instead, they lose all their invested funds, and due to certain conditions, they may not be able to file a report against the firm.  

However, the number of financial crimes continues to increase where the victims are shown counterfeited checks others earn. The frauds disseminate these counterfeit checks in huge amounts. In addition,

some receive a check to trick people into paying to receive the amount written on the check (cheque) in return.

How do you identify potential scams or frauds?

• All before-mentioned promises of a great profession from home are based on outrageous claims where the visitors are assured they will receive huge money in six figures online through simple work in less than 90 days. They do not need any work experience or qualifications.

• These claims come with deceptive testimonials, pictures of checks (cheques), and money the so-called previous employees received. 

• They post pictures of holidaying at sea beaches, scuba diving, lounging by a pool or hiking, depicting the ease of receiving the huge amount. 

• The members who join are often asked to stay registered, and they may get messages like "You are leaving a great opportunity to earn $60,000 in two months "by not paying for the next level of registration tier. 

• High-pressure upselling, money-back guarantee and free trials are promised to get you test runs for 14 days, while it also mentions in small fonts that people cannot cancel the registration after 48 hours.  

• All such messages are misleading, where the firms offering such openings make fraudulent promises only to get registration from people and earn through the registered members. 

• All the promises of fast and easy money are potential scams. So, the visitors to the adverts should search for the company's name with scam note titles to get authentic reviews and testimonials.