With the increase of work from home Job seekers, Industrial experts have established that for every one legitimate job available online today, there are 70 scums posted and they target specifically these work from home job seekers.
However, even the scams may sound believable if job-seekers find them on a trusted, legitimate website.
"Vulnerable people who just want to do good, just survive and live the dream, that's it. Just stop the scamming," said Frances Aguirre.
Aguirre said she jumped at an opportunity to work from home when she responded to a job posting on the popular employment website, Indeed.
"He found me on somewhere where I thought I was safe, you know, that I was okay to submit my personal resume, which has references, my address, my phone number, my email," Aguirre said.
But instead of earning a salary, Aguirre ended up losing nearly $5,000.
"I've had to borrow money from family to pay our bills, so we're backed up right now because of the situation that now I'm responsible to pay the bank back for money I didn't have and that someone stole," Aguirre said.
Her so-called employer sent her checks that looked real and told her to deposit them in her checking account. Aguirre was then instructed to keep $350 for herself and use the rest to buy Apple gift cards for "children in need."
"No company will need you to deposit a check for them," said Brie Reynolds of Flex Jobs.
Reynolds is a Senior Career Specialist at Flex Jobs, a website that specializes in work-from-home jobs.
"When a job pops out of the blue and sounds really great, they go for it. They don't look at the details, or they get a funny feeling about things but they keep going, and they wind up getting scammed," Reynolds said
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