The Job Ad Was A Con - As Was The Firm

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Doing your homework about home work - several online sites focus specifically on offering tips and job ads to those who are or wish to be work at home moms. Moms who want to work at home must be aware of what can happen and take caution when researching these job or business opportunities.

There are many legitimate work at home jobs for moms - but there are many that aren' t legitimate as well. - here' s one horror story. She instead was arrested publicly weeks later and charged with a felony. One stay at home mom thought she had finally found work she could do at home when she answered a classified ad posted on the Web by an overseas firm. She now faces possible jail time. S. client payments and wire the money to London. When she was hired to work at home, this mom was told she would collect U.

The job ad was a con - as was the firm. - a florida resident bought the bike for$ 900 and sent the money to the work at home mom in texas. Another part of the scam involved an internationally - known auction site, where her con artists employers placed a motorcycle for sale. There had never been a motorcycle, and when the, however new employee went to her local bank to wire the sale money to London she was arrested. Careerbuilder has a team that does nothing but that. Major job boards such as Monster, Careerbuilder and Hot Jobs, spent a ton, among others of time and energy looking for and eliminating fraudulent ads. They also post warnings on every site page and in every job - related email they send out.

Postal inspectors advise that these fake job for forwarding merchandise and money overseas have existed for many years. - but con artists still get past them. In fact, the ad that the arrested work at home mom answered is still on the Web. Four other victims, hoping to be work at home moms, instead ended up with money being stolen from their bank accounts after these con artist" employers" got them to give up their account numbers as part of the job. Another Texan lost his bank job after he responded to the same ad. Dixon says a man in Dallas, lost his job, Texas at a bank after responding to the same job posting.

The ad is appearing under three different business names at least, in more than 100 publications and sites. - four other victims had money stolen out of their personal bank accounts when the con artists simply stole their identities after convincing them to divulge their account numbers. To their credit, the job site through which the arrested work at home mom responded is doing everything it can to help the woman clear her name but it' s an uphill battle - and she' s still unemployed. They should exercise great caution, and never divulge, however personal information such as social security number and bank accounts until hired. No, those who wish to be work at home moms shouldn' t give up - there are plenty of legitimate and fruitful jobs out there working from home. Even then, it would be wise to set up a separate bank account to handle only the transactions for the hiring firm, leaving personal accounting and money unreachable.

The safest course is to simply not accept a job that requires transmitting funds or anything else outside the United States.