I’ve recently joined the ranks of the unemployed after company downsizing. Yay me. I’ve been hitting the job search sites for work-from-home data-entry and similar jobs. I apply, go through all the hoops, then I get an email. “Your application has been accepted! Follow this link for more information…” And it’s a get paid to take surveys scheme. It’s not necessarily a scam, since no one is trying to get money from me. But a) if I grinded 16 hours per day I might make $100 per day, and b) I was lied to and played for a fool in order to get to that point anyway.
It’s the false pretenses thing that would bother me. If the job is to fill out surveys for money then say so - plenty of people would be interested in that option if they really needed something they could do from home
When I was briefly unemployed in the late 90s, I found an ad for a job in the newspaper. (It was the 90s, that’s what you did back then.) I called and it was a recording about something I could mail away for. Definitely scammy.
The real kick in the balls was that I had a $50 charge for the call on my next phone bill. When I called my phone company to complain, they said that I had called some Caribbean island and there was nothing I could do about the charge. Fucking bullshit. (The scam I guess worked like this one.)
That’s just what a guy in poverty trying desperately to get a job needs.
Also, another ad around that time advertised a job “working with technology”. When I went to the address to fill out an application (or so I thought), it was a pitch for Kirby vacuum sales. Another big “fuck you” to them too for their deceptive shit.
