Online fraud: Still have enough tricks 'easy work, high salary'

To find a job, you need to go to a place with clear recruitment information. There is no such thing as "easy work, high salary" - Photo: C.TRIEU

The recent series of online scams and money loss cases has made the public panic. It is worth mentioning that the tricks are not too new, even "quite familiar", but only when the money is lost do people suddenly realize. The trap of online scams seems to be encircling and expanding more and more.

Unlike reality, where it is difficult for people to find jobs and recruiters to find workers, the online world shows a "job search" scene that is full of jobs that do not require experience or qualifications, but instead advertise very high salaries!

Variations on old tricks

After leaving information that she was looking for a job and sending it, an account also claiming to be female immediately offered jobs such as typist, spa technician, hotel receptionist, karaoke bar server, massage parlor. As for the male account, she was immediately offered jobs as a security guard, bodyguard, event attendant, and game quest worker.

But while we were chatting enthusiastically, 8/10 accounts that had been actively inviting us and enthusiastically giving us instructions suddenly switched to "indifferent mode". Some people read the messages, some didn't even bother to look at them and just ignored us even though we kept texting, begging for help finding a job.

It turns out that this is a trick of "online recruiters": inviting and luring their prey with easy work and good salary, then suddenly disappearing. Choosing a long enough time to disappear to make the job seeker impatient, the subjects will launch their "final trick". A very standard response "because of slow response, we have recruited enough, but seeing that you are enthusiastic and having difficulties, we will create conditions".

The condition here is that the prey is required to pay 450,000 VND for uniform if working as a security guard or bodyguard; pay 1.1 million VND deposit to hold the position and learn the profession if working as a receptionist or technician. Taking advantage of the fear of missing out on the opportunity, the "network recruiter" continuously urges that there is not much time left, many people are waiting, the conditions have been created but if they do not pay, then let's pass this opportunity to someone else...

And as soon as the 450,000 VND was transferred, the play ended, even though it was predicted. We were blocked from contacting them and all messages were taken back. With a fee of 1.1 million VND, we were immediately agreed to transfer 50% in advance. And just like that scenario, the money was transferred and all means of contact with the sender were blocked immediately.

Cheating on husband when looking for a job

Tuan (19 years old, from Dong Nai) is someone we met from one of the "easy work, high salary" groups when we went there to look for a job. Through the internet, Tuan met an account that said they were looking for a bank security guard with a salary of 10 million VND/month. Hearing that, it sounded good, Tuan immediately followed the requirements from providing documents, account number, bank card number to accessing the link sent to create a profile...

While he was still feeling happy because he thought he had found a job, Tuan received a text message saying that more than 2 million VND had been deducted from his card. He rushed to the bank to report it but it was hopeless because he had given them all his personal information, bank password, and even the OTP code, so how could he hope to get his money back?

Not long after that, while surfing the internet looking for a job, Tuan received a message from an account named Pham Duc Chinh, who claimed to be an HR staff at An Thinh Phat Company, because he saw that Tuan was looking for a job. The job was introduced quite simply, just create an account and then log into the application every day to place bets (online gambling - PV) according to the instructions. "If you do as required, you will receive a probationary salary of 80,000 VND/hour, paid immediately upon completion of the job" - Chinh texted.

The first hour of the trial was quite smooth, the salary conditions were met, but Chinh texted to say that the account's IP address was duplicated and needed to be verified. The quick way to verify the account, Tuan only needed to deposit 100,000 VND, clearly state that the depositor was him and the company would support him with an additional 100,000 VND. "If I followed this, not only would I not receive my salary, but I would also lose the verification money I just deposited" - Tuan bitterly said.

Not easy to let go

Joining an online gaming portal (disguised as football betting, online gambling) is not difficult, but quitting is extremely difficult. Phone numbers, emails, and social media accounts will be constantly attacked by spam calls and messages.

Le Trang, who had been "on duty" many times, said she had been scammed out of a lot of money. Determined to quit, she changed her Facebook and used a new SIM card, but she could not escape that "ghost".

Every day, Trang receives dozens of messages, calls and countless times being added to "easy work, high salary" groups online. Looking back, there are all promotions on online betting and gambling websites that Trang has visited before and countless new websites that she has never "done a task" on before.

Make money by creating purchase orders!

Through the introduction of Hong Ngoc, who claimed to be a support specialist for the online shopping application from Telegram, we were "very lucky to be chosen by the program". Ngoc created an account from the personal information we provided, in which there was a balance of 2 million VND that was said to have been initially supported by the company.

"Easy work, high salary" groups and associations are rampant across the internet - Screenshot: C.TRIEU

We have the task of using that account to create purchase orders as directed by Ngoc. When the order is successful, we will receive 130% of the order value. The difference is called commission, the task reward can be withdrawn to the bank account immediately after level 5.

On the first day, Ngoc only bought low-value items, a few orders would be upgraded by one level. The amount of money the company supported was enough for our account to quickly reach level 4 with the remaining amount that could be withdrawn at this time being nearly 30 million VND.

Immediately, Ngoc announced that the next mission required us to buy a branded bag worth more than 121 million VND but with a discount code of only 37 million VND. She urged us to just top up the missing 7 million VND, create an order and then sit back and wait for the refund of more than 50 million VND "cash on delivery".

But many members of the group "Exposing online scams" complained online that they had been scammed by that trick. If they deposit more, there will be enough reasons for the scammers to take the money. The faint-hearted will be lured into depositing more, doing new tasks to withdraw the money!

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/lua-dao-qua-mang-van-du-chieu-viec-nhe-luong-cao-20240523232043775.htm