Steer clear of work-at-home scams

How about an article on what to do if you already fell for it? What is the right way to handle things after the fact? Super Bummed! Thousands, is their anything that can be done?

I was scammed with an at home work program. I have made a report and tried to notify you several times. I was scammed for 1400 and it has taken a toll. Is there any way of getting this money back???? I'm desperate

I just signed up for a re-ship work from home job that says they will pay 30 days after first package is sent. It sounds like the Elqus scam. I put in the wrong social on their W4 form and they said nothing and sent the contract. How do I protect myself?

I have received the text message from 1 281-840-1874, the text message read: "Hello, We are offering part-time flexible job which you can do from home and earn 600-1200 USD weekly. You only do survey and give feed back. Read more and register for free at premierconsumerinsights com" I am not sure this is fake or not but doesn't sound real.

I recieved a check, Priority Mail, for $1900.00. I did sign up for the job, but in this letter, they are asking me to buy Visa gift cards. Well ofcourse that just jump up as a huge flag to me. I went online and every thing I can find out checks out. In the end, I would make $400.00. They give me a list and time limit of what I have to. Like pics of bathrooms at both Walmarts and actions of employees, how clean the store, etc. What do you think?

I think I have been scammed on a work at home job. The company sent me a check for $1950.00 to buy office equipment and other stuff. The company is called Transolutionpr and they need to be stopped.

My daughter was scammed a few days ago. She was looking for data entry jobs. This lady claimed to work for Kelly Staffing Services. (There is a site on line by that name) looked legit, so she did interview ,took some kind test questions. They then hired her were supposed to send her a laptop and she was to get internet set up etc. they sent her her tax form to fill out got a copy of her dl# and ss#. My daughter felt so humiliated in the end and stupid , defeated. She was too upset to fully explain but it ended with for some reason her purchasing gift cards to the tune of 1000$ to give to them. She didn’t give them the info off those cards until she checked her bank to see if the reimbursement check from them was in her bank. She could see it was pending so went ahead and gave them to them. Next morning the bank said the check didn’t look like it was legit so it was on hold. It was no good. She filed a police report and a report to the feds. Today I got a call from a social security officer said his name was Norman Walker . He said there is a possible problem with my ss# so it has been blocked, but no worries they are on it . Asked me to verify my last four# on ss card, before I caught myself I did say those . I didn’t give him any card numbers , he didn’t ask for them. He said my bank accounts could be in jeopardy and what banks were those ? What is my balance , etc I told him I am afraid of scammers now and that he could be one for all I know. He ended up frustrated , gave me a PIN number and said his supervisor is working on it and will call back. When I ask for his number he hung up. And no one called me back of course. I wonder if they ( scammers) lay awake at night and contemplate how many people they murdered that day. Possibly a young Single mother with no family help , that thru COVID managed to pull herself up that day no matter what and find another job to feed her child- came into contact with them and in desperation NOT STUPIDITY thought I have no choice I will give it a chance . Yes that mother that then when realizing she was had , deep in depression , could take no more. Except her life . I hope they are reading this.

Talk about SCAMMED, I fell for that one ! A company out of Ft. Lauderdale, FL hired me to deliver packages from my home to Fedex, USPS, UPS ETC. For $50.00 per package delivered after internet training and delivering 28 packages to those entities I was dropped like a bad habit ! They owed me $2,900.00 bucks. Talk about being SCAMMED !!

WORKING FROM HOME IS GOOD .... BUT THEY HAVE TO FULLY ENSURE THAT THE WORK DAY ENDS AND THEY PAY YOU IMMEDIATELY THAT SAME DAY ... THE SCAMMERS COUNT THAT YOU ARE UNEMPLOYED AND WHEN YOU WORK TWO WEEKS, A WEEK. OR PER MONTH ... BECAUSE THAT PAYMENT IS NO LONGER EXISTING DAILY ... DAY WORKED ... DAY PAID AND COLLECTED

I recently got a job offer from a company called clear source translation, all the interviews have been over skype and ive been trained to be an interpreter,working from home but i saw red flags and i need help, the pay is monthly, the address on the website does not match up and the phone number does not match up either,i asked the coo of the company and he assured me they are legitimate but im very wary, dont wanna end up being scammed or working in vain , please help, the company is supposedly based out of hamilton OH

I recently took a job (so I thought) for a work from home for a company called eze software. They sent me a check for office equipment. Flags went up and I had my bank run it through fraud. It came back ok and I still questioned it and asked my bank over and over that it was legit. They assured me I was ok so I sent the shipping company for the office equipment. A week later the check came back as fraud. I'm out $5200!!! What can I do about this???

I was a victim today from a fraudulent job. They called themselves job corp and got $450 out of me and tried to give me $2000 in debt after they did a background check and promised me paid training. I find it wild that there are scammers on Indeed and Simply Hired posting jobs. When will it end? And what is it to expect for the future of job searching? The pandemic has been rough on me but one thing that wasn't needed was someone stealing from the already vulnerable.

I was contacted by a guy claiming to be from WOLTERS KLUWER for a WFH position. The 'interview' was done all through chat. I got a job offer letter the next day, offering a better-than-expected salary for the position. I got a bad feeling about it. Way too easy. After receiving the job offer, the guy tells me over chat that I will need to spend $1,400 in equipment FIRST, because the computer I have now is not to be trusted. I told him I found this suspicious and he's now saying I will be receiving a check from them first in order for me to buy such equipment. I have a bad gut feeling about this and I think I'm going to hit the brake. I did some online research and didn't find anything specific about a scam with this particular company, but still.

I got a text message with a person's name stating that my application for the CS remote position with a pay of...... and then it states that I'm required to set up and contact the HR on Telegram. She gave the name of the HR person and states that they will brief me on the job and the interview process... What sent a red flag was the company name was never shared, just two names that mean nothing to me. Something doesn't ring well with me...