How To Identify And Avoid Job Scams
In today's economy, the available people seeking for job have outgrown the available jobs, this has made many people get to the point of desperation while finding a job and when a promising job offer seems to appear in their lap, it may be tempting to follow through at all cost. Today, it is also common to work from home particularly online or internet jobs. But while doing this,it is important to be careful. While there may be legitimate online businesses, or businesses looking to hire you, there are a few clear steps to detect a job scam. We refer to this as “RED FLAG”
Red Flag 1: No Business Name or Contact Address:
Please note, no legitimate firm will advertise for jobs without stating boldly their name, brand identity and possibly their physical contact address. Also, no legitimate firm will ask you to send your resume to the advertiser through a P.O. Box, P.M.B or public e-mail addresses especially when it is not in anyway similar or linked to the company or organisation’s name. This is a serious red flag signaling that it is scam.You just have to be at alert. Firms do not hide their name or addresses rather they use the job adverts to advertise their company, offering you link to their website and providing information on their products and services.
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twitterRed Flag 2: Duplicate Website or Similar Domain Name:
A typical trick employed by scammers these days is duplicating websites of known companies and registering domain names similar to those of these companies. Domain name is the web address of a website e.g. www.cnichng.com is the domain name of CNICH SOLUTIONS- an ICT firm in Nigeria. If scammers want to use the cnichng.com for scam, they will register a similar domain name like www.cnich-ng.com and host a duplicate website. This action is aimed at making job seekers believe that they are viewing the websites of the authentic firms therefore believing the job scam.
The scammers will demand your personal details and sometimes even demand for financial details like ATM card number and PIN. Always beware when a job demands your personal and financial details.
Being more analytical will help you observe that the domain names used in registering the sites differ from that of the domain names of the authentic firms. A good practice is to always search the internet for the name of the firm to observe the real domain name of the authentic company. Web search will reveal the domain name of the authentic company since it will rank higher in search engine index, e.g – using google to search for CNICH SOLUTIONS or www.cnichng.com. Another way is by using www.scamchecker.net to verify the validity of such companies.
Red Flag 3: Advertising Several Positions:
You may have seen job adverts on the internet or pages of newspapers containing several positions cutting across many disciplines, pls watch carefully.
Companies only engage in massive recruitment when they are just starting operations, expanding or starting a new project. But this is often times rare and mostly embarked on by big corporations.
So when you see advert for massive recruitment, You just have to look for other red flags listed here to confirm if d job is a scam or not.
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Beware of the "too good to be true" offers:
Many offers seem legitimate and even have professional looking websites; they offer mouth-watering remuneration, vacation packages and even easy recruitment process. But, put on your thinking cap and remember the old adage, "If it seems too good to be true, it probably is."
They may not offer a N1, 000,000 a year salary, but may make the offer sound like it is coming from a legitimate business. The recruitment process is often simple and may not require any form of aptitude test or interview. If you can get this job without passing through any process, be suspicious!
Red Flag 5
Always confirm the reliability of the website or web name after you have taken the first 3 Red Flag steps highlighted above. Copy the Website address, Web name or URL, click on the link below and paste it in the space provided. You will get an instant result. To a large extent, this link has a good reputation of finding genuine web organisations. Here is the link
http://www.scamadviser.com/
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