I recently had the misfortune of almost getting sucked into what I believe to be a scam. The HR person had me log into Google Hangouts to chat with the HR rep at Seer Interactive. After just a few basic questions I was "hired" for $33.95/hr. (red flag #1). I asked for more money but was told I can always negotiate at the training. (Red flag #2 - You don't attend training until you have a deal. )Then the HR rep said the company would be providing me with an HP laptop but that I had to buy a long list of software (about $1000) from their preferred vendor. (Red flag #3) I told them they could take their laptop to their preferred vendor and have the software installed and provide the laptop to me at training. That was against company policy. At this point we parted ways.

I wrote this up and notified the Federal Trade Commission about the scam. This is a great link the FTC sent back to me that I'd like to share with all of you so you are not prey to the scammers.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/features/feature-0019-business-opportunity-scams