How developers can avoid remote work scams
Excerpt from theserverside.com
Remote work scams, otherwise known as work-from-home scams, encourage people to unwittingly apply to fake companies that tout the ability to work from wherever one chooses. Unfortunately, these jobs do not exist. Instead these offers serve the scammers’ real goal: to steal personal information, money, or both.
Oftentimes, these scams require “new recruits” to purchase training, products and even home office equipment from predesignated suppliers, upfront and prior to their official “start date.” Some scams are modeled similarly to multilevel marketing organizations, while others are more like pyramid schemes or outright Ponzi schemes.
Some remote programming job opportunities are legit, but there are common threads among remote job scams that reveal their deception. The jobs they advertise often sound too good to be true. The proposed salary is usually far above industry standards, and the output required is exceedingly low.
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