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How to identify a bogus online money - making
offer
Check the Background of Company :
Before you accept an offer,its important to
exercise due diligence regarding the company. Check reviews about it on various
blogs,social Websites and complaint forums.If there are negative inputs,
ignore the offer. "A background check about the company is important
to ensure that the offer is legitimate. If the compensation seems to high,it
can be a potential scam",If you are keen about the job, but are not sure
about its genuineness,start small.Take up limited work initially,and if you are
paid regularly and on time for a year, you could consider scaling up with it.
ADVANCE PAYMENT :
This is the most important trick played by the
scamsters .You will be given few cheques in the first few months of
starting work . After this, the company will ask you to deposit a substantial
amount of money with it on some pretext, the most common being that it had
accidentally sent you a high value cheque and could you return the amount. When
you deposit the cheque, it bounces,but by this time, you had already made
payment to the company. "There is no reason for a company to ask you to
pay it, If it asks you for money,abandon ship,"
EVALUATION :
If the offer is genuine,the company will ask you
for a sample of your work before hiring you. There should be a criteria for
selection that should match the job description. If not,there is something
fishy. "Companies have a rigorous evaluation,including a written test and
online interview that covers subject knowledge and skills, before it selects a
candidate. An online company will have the same process as a brick-and- mortar
institution.
If such evaluation and process are missing, it
definitely indicates a scam."
CONTACT INFORMATION :
A good way to judge
the genuineness of an online job offer is to check the office address and
contact numbers provided on the company Website . If there is no such
information available, send an e-mail to the company. In case there is phone
number , call and speak to someone.The best thing to do would be to check the physical
location of the company.
REFERENCES :
Don,t take the offer at
face value. Ask about the clients and other employees who are doing similar
work. Check with these firms and people about the quality of the
company,s work.If you have been given a bogus client list,which includes high
profile companies,it will alarm them too. This is how banks and top - companies
become aware of their names being misused and periodically send out mails
stating that they have no such job offers.
If you fall prey to
fraudster despite all this precautions,lodge an First Information Report [ FIR
] against the company. Though these are fly - by - night operators, who keep
skipping cities, a database of cyber crime is built. Under the IT Act - 2000 ,
a company offering fake online offers can be fined or the persons running the
scam can be imprisoned for up to Three Years.
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