Again, this is a good rule for any email, not just a job offer. Luckily, there are plenty of ways to avoid falling victim to a work-from-home scam (or any online scam, for that matter).

But I wanted to see what happens to people who follow through and actually try to get the job, so I answered a scam text, and it led me down a surprisingly long road that included bogus online ...

With internet penetration increasing, news of people getting scammed online has ... Udita went on to offer a real job to the scammer. She said, “You are trying to scam...Why don't you just ...

Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Epoxydude / fStop / artpartner-images / The Image Bank / Getty Online scams aren ... To avoid falling victim to a job offer scam, watch for vague job ...

"Be careful who you connect with on social media. We became victims after being approached by unverified job recruiters," he warned. Similarly, EG, another victim of the online scam, also reminded ...

Now, the FTC has put out a warning specifically to college students to look out for a particular scam targeting that group of people. In particular, fraudsters are using the lure of a job offer ...

Yet, a woman who wanted to be known only as Ms Lee, 48, lost over $78,000 to a job scam in four days ... on WhatsApp in late 2024 offering her an online part-time job. She agreed, as she felt ...

In an era of online side hustles ... Answering their question, another person posted: “It's called a task scam. The job is not real. Nobody really pays to click on a screen.