Scammers Defraud Individuals via Work-From-Home Scams


The FBI warns of scammers offering victims fake work-from-home jobs, typically involving a relatively simple task, such as rating restaurants or “optimizing” a service by repeatedly clicking a button.

The scammers pose as a legitimate business, such as a staffing or recruiting agency,and may contact victims via an unsolicited call or message. Scammers design the fake job to have a confusing compensation structure that requires victims to make cryptocurrency payments in order to earn more money or “unlock” work, and the payments go directly to the scammer. Scammers direct victims to a fake interface, which shows victims are earning money, though none of it is available to them to cash out.

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Source: U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation Cyber Division


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