#JobScammers

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How to Spot a Job Scammer

By someone who still gets their damn texts

Scammers are despicable, but job scammers? Here’s a way to handle them.

The first time I mentioned them was in my post, “Get a Job!”, which was a rant about, how there I was, unemployed, trying to find work, and I was getting nothing but texts from job scammers. And companies are complaining people “don’t wanna work”.

What sparked this post was, on Apr. 15th, I received, another, text from a job scammer. After having gotten so many, I’m pretty damn good at identifying them. I mentioned it to my partner and said I should make a video about it. Right now, my videos are limited to video games and books, and YouTube doesn’t exactly reward straying from your niche, but I liked the idea. So, I decided I’d write a blog post about it.

Below are screenshots of a scam text I received, phone number and all:

Red Flags:

Typos: this is a text about a job position. One would expect it to be as professionally written as possible.

Company name is in parenthesis.

Pay rate is too good to be true.

They mix up the gender of the individual who would be doing the interview.

Possible Red Flags:

Getting more details during the interview. Every interview I remember was me providing details, not the other way around.

Job ID.

When I see red flags, I look up the company I suspect they are claiming to be from and check their Careers page. No data entry positions. And at the bottom of page it says:

Beware of fraudulent job postings: While apree health job advertisements may be found on many sites, our current openings page and its associated Jobvite account are the only places we accept applications for open roles. If you suspect a job post is fraudulent, please let us know at recruiting@apree.health.

I don’t remember seeing this when I was first doing the research. Either I wasn’t paying attention or they added it after I sent them a message about the scam using their Contact page, which I try to do every time I’m sent a text or email from a scammer to protect others. If I’m able to forward the email, I do.

Also, report the text as spam and block the number.

Well, this is all the education I have for today! Thank you for reading.

May every decision you make be in the spirit of fairness and may the rest of your day NOT go to $#!7!

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

“Get A Job”

I’d love to, but I’m not valued. Not by the job market. Just scammers.

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"Get a Job!"

Scammers are despicable, but job scammers? I don’t have words. I wish I did.

When I was at my lowest, emotionally, one got me, and I’ve had a credit freeze, and a fraud alert, active ever since. Here I am, unemployed, trying to find work, and I’m getting nothing but texts from job scammers. And companies are complaining people “don’t wanna work”.

First of all:

Work

Is wanted by most. What no one wants is to be exploited! Pay more!

Secondly, they need to make their jobs easier to find. We don’t need 55 thousand different job boards, we have to create accounts on, to gain access to the available jobs. And these job boards should be doing the screening to make sure the job is legitimate WHILE telling us how to spot a job scam. I should not be on LinkedIn, then on another job board applying for the job after clicking a bunch of different links. I should not feel like I need a VPN to look for a job. I should not feel like I have to check a company’s website for job postings every time I get a text to make sure it’s legitimate. The job post on LinkedIn, or Indeed, or others, need to take me, us, DIRECTLY to the job description on the company’s website. There needs to be MORE safety measures in the age of “you need to apply online” with applying in person is no longer being available. Person/company verification is offered on LinkedIn; the same needs to be done for jobs. Job posts need to be linked to a verified company. Job boards should not be posting jobs to other job boards, UNLESS their post takes you DIRECTLY to the company’s website. How does ArtStation have a safer job board than LinkedIn? And I can only IMAGINE how the people running the companies feel after I inform them they’re being impersonated. YES I go that extra mile! A job scam has more than one victim! They need to know their brand, their name, is being taken advantage of!

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People don’t wanna work? No. It’s FINDING work. And finding work that actually PAYS worth a damn. If COVID has taught people anything, it’s there’s only so much bullshit they’re willing to take. We need to stop blaming the unemployed, the homeless, and the poor for their situation and start looking at what’s CAUSING their situation. With there being, supposedly, so many available jobs, this should not be such a struggle. And, with COVID still being an issue, work that can be done remotely needs to be. And it needs to be the STANDARD even if COVID stops being an issue. Want to stand out as an employer? Make the work easier to do. Make people COMFORTABLE so they want to KEEP working for you. Bring back rewarding loyal employees.

And. Pay. A. Living. Wage.

Work

Is wanted by most. What no one wants is to be exploited! Pay more!

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Thank you for reading.

May every decision you make be in the spirit of fairness and may the rest of your day NOT go to $#!7!

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