Work Scam - How to Detect Scam and How to Avoid It

Hi there! Before sharing tips in earning from home, I would like to give you some words of caution about the scams out there. You may not believe it but I, together with a friend, have been victims of seemingly innocent work opportunity that pays well.

Let me share the story.

A friend invited me to collaborate or join her in a full-time research work opportunity. We will share the work and the earnings. I tell you, the pay is like how much a manager gets here. She showed me the contract and there was a company name, a seemingly true manager name. First impression is that this is indeed true. Payment arrangement is given and all the rest that you will find in an ordinary contract. She requested for payment in Xoom as this is better than Paypal and he agreed. Then, the work started.

It was not really that difficult but it was time-consuming somehow. But still the motivation was to earn more on top of what we are already earning. This was a great opportunity for us!

After a week, as it was payday schedule, my friend submitted an invoice expecting for the first week of payment but he said pay will be every two weeks. "Oh, ok", so she said. We worked for another full week with some overtime schedule for high-priority research work. When I say overtime, that means she has to be doing research until 4am.. Whew!

Anyways, the end of two weeks came and she sent an invoice. She was said that pay is processed every Wednesday. "Oh, ok", she responded again.

To make the long story short, Wednesday came and follow-up was made. But before that, the emails were already bouncing because of full storage - seemingly innocent capacity problem in email. BTW, I forgot to mention that he is a demanding person requiring output every two hours. Hence, you will never think that he has a bad agenda of fooling people.

Then, his Skype account starts to be inactive. He is always offline. There are no responses to the messages. No responses to email. And that's it.... we were scammed!

My friend posted an ad in craigslist warning people about him and surprisingly, there are a few others who said they, too were scammed by this guy and were never paid. There is one who got a partial payment but the rest were just used and fooled.

That is the story. Now the lessons:

1. Never trust employers even if they have a contract that you need to sign. A contract is not always a guarantee of truth especially in this Internet world.

2. Be in doubt when somebody wants quick output and appears to be strict. It is best to ask for pay after a week of work before proceeding. The person should have a capacity to pay.

3. Connect with the employer in your social networking site. This way, somehow you will know his friends and you can always send messages to people he knows about what he did. Also, you will know his true identity.

4. It would be good to talk to the person via a webcam during negotiation stage. This will be a benefit to both parties. Then, capture the person's image so you have an actual and true photo of the person. You can use this to post in scam announcements in case it happens.

5. Doubt when the offer seems too good to be true. This is okay if you found the job in a job site that offers escrow. This means that there is fund for such. However, for other cases, do not be too trusting.

I hope you learned from this and that you will not go through the same experience that we went through.

God bless!


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