‘Earn up to £800 a day’: job scammers using calls or texts to lure victims | Consumer affairs
S.UT of the blue, receives a call or a text that offers you a job. It looks great – it’s a remote work and you can earn up to 800 pounds a day. If you are interested, you just need to call the sender via the submitted WhatsApp number.
The task is very easy: you are asked to love and share content – usually Tikhak.
“After you start admiration and content sharing, she receives a small boost, which is fraudulent funds from other people involved in the fraud,” says Anya Porskais, head of fraud in the construction community. Then you were told that you need to pay an amount to cancel higher profits insurance – you may be told that he is training.
“Some of these funds are used to pay other victims, and some are included in the hands of the organized crime gang.”
Burskys says original messages prove an attractive proposal for people – especially students.
“We have started to see a rise, especially in the 16-25 age group,” she says. “Last year, we haven’t seen this daily. Now there are multiple cases a day, either from people who have sent money, or we receive reports from other banks that have customers who sent money to customer accounts.”
In recent cases, the victims may have been persuaded to work “Gulle Money” – Allow their accounts by fraudsters to process payments.
In addition to delivering money, or accounts, victims may also find that the bank’s and identity details are used using other fraud.
Porscz says that the typical losses were hundreds or thousands of pounds. “It is not the highest value – the problem is the size,” she says. “This happens very quickly – it is prepared to speak to realize that you are a fraud victim is days, while your model investment fraud is played for months or years.”
With the disintegration of universities and schools, students begin to search for a summer work, they need to be careful with fraudsters.
How does the fraud look like
The texts claim that they are from an employment agency – sometimes use the name of a legitimate company – or from Tiktok and says there is available work. Some mention your CV, as if you had sent it. The texts say you can earn hundreds of pounds a day (it seems that the number 800 pounds appears a lot), and ask you to call via WhatsApp number.
Similar phone calls. In one week, an automatic voice is already claiming that the recruitment agency has already said that the job was available and if the recipient was interested, they should call via WhatsApp. The phone number appears to belong to a regular British mobile phone.
What do messages ask for?
The first message requires you to register your interest in the job. The fraudsters will then tell you that the task includes admiring and sharing content – perhaps Tiktok videos. Your details may be asked when registering, or when it is time to receive some wages.
You may receive a first “wage”, but then you will be asked to pay for the training, or the like, so that you can open higher profits.
What to do
Beware of any undesirable message claiming to offer work. This is not a typical method for a legitimate agency to deal with people. The agency already says: “In fact, you do not contact the work coating directly on the phone on behalf of the employers who use our platform to find and employ new employees,” the agency.
Burskys says if you hear from a recruiter or a company that offers you a job you must “use Companies House, and use LinkedIn to search for it.” Companies House will see if it is a company working, and who are its managers and where is its headquarters. You can check this for any details you provided.
If you get to know the name of the employment company, go to its website and know if the job is announced there.
In the United Kingdom, fraud texts to 7726.
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