{"id":332421,"date":"2010-02-17T17:13:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T22:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002256"},"modified":"2010-02-17T17:40:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T22:40:17","slug":"dont-fall-for-job-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/332421","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Fall For Job Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/021710-005-job-scams-ftc-thumb-300x234-37124.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission has a website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/jobscams\">www.ftc.gov\/jobscams<\/a> with information on the types of scams you&#8217;re likely to find in Help Wanted listings. They&#8217;ve also put together a short video (below) that describes how scammers try to charge job hunters fees to pay for job certification, or to provide access to executive-level interviews, or to acquire study materials that are supposedly crucial to passing a hiring exam. It&#8217;s a good refresher course in what to look out for when you&#8217;re answering ads.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><object width=\"545\" height=\"344\" title=\"Job Scams\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/bcp\/edu\/multimedia\/video\/scams\/job-scams.swf\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"sameDomain\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/bcp\/edu\/multimedia\/video\/scams\/job-scams.swf\" quality=\"high\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"sameDomain\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"545\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\nHere are the top signs of a scam as listed in the video above:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>They promise you a job.<\/li>\n<li>They ask you to pay.<\/li>\n<li>They provide information about a job but try to phrase it to sound like they&#8217;re actually offering you the job.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been the victim of a scam, you can file a complaint with the FTC at <a href=\"http:\/\/ftc.gov\/complaint\">ftc.gov\/complaint<\/a> or at 877-FTC-HELP (877-382-4357).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/jobscams\">ftc.gov\/jobscams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission has a website at www.ftc.gov\/jobscams with information on the types of scams you&#8217;re likely to find in Help Wanted listings. They&#8217;ve also put together a short video (below) that describes how scammers try to charge job hunters fees to pay for job certification, or to provide access to executive-level interviews, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}