My name Giovanni Medina known as homeless mentally ill with record So hired by Jim Shewbert called me said need someone for homecare sure I said he said $3,800- sent checks was fake jobs he says was not fake gave instructions then I called cops he threatened me with jail time that im running away with his money so if get message from this person don't trust them flag message as spam Plz don't accept nothing from person of Intellicorp its a warning from a person that gave trust find out woman was dead. 11 yrs Vivian Shewbert. Look all offers on internet b4 accepting offer Plz be aware of job scams

Hello everyone... I TRULY hope that everybody here gets work, I have been contacted by at LEAST three this week. The last person I talked to (this morning) ALSO asked me for financial information. When I pointed out that my former company NEVER asked me for that (only ADP did) they insinuated that I was wasting their time. OMG. I am a real person with real needs and I don't appreciate people trying to steal what I have!!! I have a sick child who needs me!!! I don't have time for liars!!!

Does anyone have any information about this company? They offered me a job and I want to make sure it is not a scam.

Learn how to spot a job scam for yourself! SAVE TIME AND MONEY! Job scams are everywhere these days. I recommend you save this list next to your computer to look at while you're job searching. Don't be tricked!

Look out for anything that's too good to be true. If they reached out to you (and you didn't apply!), if the pay is too good to be true, if you got the job without having to do much, these are all signs of a scammer preying on peoples' hope. Look out for extremely vague job listings. If there are no real qualifications or requirements, it's likely that they don't care who applies because they're trying to scam applicants. Look out for unprofessional messages. If there are many typos, weird misspellings, grammatical errors, (i instead of I, Human resources instead of Human Resources, no space following the period after a sentence, etc.) -- this could point to the fact that they're trying to scam you. Look out for online interviews. Google Hangouts are very popular with scammers because they don't require any proof of validity. Anyone can pretend to be anybody on Google Hangouts. Make sure you research any company that asks you to do an online interview. Look out for emails sent from a generic email account. Real companies will send out emails from their company's domain (for example, Jobcase will email you from an email address that ends in @jobcase.com) whereas a generic email address ends in @gmail.com, or @yahoo.com. These emails, again, can be made by anybody and require no proof. Make sure you do the research even if the email address looks legit, because scammers will often purchase similar-looking websites or domains to email from (for example, adding a hyphen or adding or removing one letter of the company's name). Google EVERYTHING that looks suspicious. If company names don't add up, if there's no online presence, if you can't find enough information to make a decision it's probably something to be avoided. Real companies have an online footprint, you can find Glassdoor reviews or Yelp reviews or even references to the company that are not job postings. If there's no information online, be wary. DO NOT GIVE OUT PERSONAL INFORMATION! Don't give anyone your bank account information or social security number until you know for sure they are legit! DO NOT ACCEPT CHECKS FROM STRANGERS! Take any check you've received to the bank immediately to get it looked over to make sure it's not a fake check. US jobseekers lose millions of dollars in fake check scams every year. Look out for any job asking you to pay for anything. Some companies do require a small fee for background checks, but if you're not sure if that's legit ask for help first! Trust your gut. If you think it's iffy it probably is. Remember: It is always better to be safe than to be sorry. Don't be afraid to ask questions, you are not alone!

I think I've read other posts on Jobcase about how to spot a job scam but since I just recently received one I thought it would be a good idea to post about it again so other job seekers can be aware who have not heard of it.

No matter where you post your #resume, LinkedIn, Monster, Indeed, Glassdoor, Ziprecruiter these scam companies can still find you and your resume so it’s a matter of being aware and not one specific job site board that is more susceptible than others. There are also smaller job site boards that are sometimes connected to the larger ones and clicking on one job posting can lead to those sites such as Career builder, Lensa, Nexxt, Career alerts, Job Serious, Find Your Career, Featured Jobs, Evening Classifieds, Dicewire, Trending Jobs, Jobungo, Hirewire, Startwire, or Jobvertise, etc. These are all legit job sites and the scam seekers can get your resume/contact info from a smaller known site just as much as a larger one, so again, it's just best to be aware of the actual Google Hangout Scam. It usually goes something like this:

Someone will text you or email you introducing themselves as Mr. Joe Smith from XYZ company. Notice they always use the honorifics of Mr., Mrs., or Ms. The scammers will they say they are from a company that’s usually a legit company because they know you'll Google it to check it out. But they WILL NOT provide their company website address or their own email address at the company such as Jsmith@xyzcompnay.com. That’s a big tipoff, all legit recruiters from real recruiting companies or companies will include ALWAYS include their email address at the company such as: Jane.Smith@RothertHalf.com (legit recruiting agency) or JoeS@Microsoft.com (legit company not using a recruiting agency).
The scammers will next say I saw your resume on (Jobvertise or Hirewire, etc.) You might not even remember putting your resume on that board, that’s fine, once you post on the larger boards your resume info can sometimes be sold to the smaller ones or sometimes by clicking on ‘receive job alerts’ will put your info on the smaller boards and you might not even be aware your resume info is there until you start receiving emails from the smaller job boards. If you’re like me you probably clicked on a lot of ‘receive job alerts’ and thus, your resume is on places you didn’t even realize). Back to the scam: Mr. Joe Smith said he found my resume on some small site and he has a position of Administrative assistant/ data entry/ customer services available. (Tip-off: Administrative assistants usually do not do Data Entry and Customer Service (not services) is a separate job position again not usually what an Admin assistant does.) And Mr. Smith is very impressed with your resume and qualifications and wants to set up an interview. Once you reply you’re interested then they will ask you if you have a Gmail account because they want to set up the interview via Google Hangout. (another tip-off: companies will use Skype to Zoom to interview with you in real time.) Google Hangouts allows Mr. Smith to use a generic Gmail account instead of a company email address which he doesn’t have because he is a scammer.
Mr. Smith will then tell you to get on Google Hangouts right now or at some odd non-business hour time (the weekend or at 6am) and once online a Mrs. Charlotte A. Wilbur is waiting for you to interview you (how convenient!). This is where the real scam happens. They will name some dream opportunity available for a dream hourly rate ($35.00 an hour for customer service position? Yeah right) and then let you practically pick your hours or even say you can work from home (Yay! Who doesn’t want that?) They will go through some BS about pretending to interview you and then put you on hold while they pretend to check with their supervisor about your skills, then come back and say congratulations! The supervisor agreed and our company wants to hire you right away! Next, they will pretend to do the employment specifies of needing your full name, address, social security number (BEWARE) or if they don’t ask for your SSA they will go another rout to scam: asking do you want to be paid as bi-monthly, bi-weekly and do you want direct deposit? This is another way they get you, they will say they need to know which bank you want your direct deposit to go because they have to check to see if your bank is in their direct payment system (or some such made up process.) Giving your full name, SSA number, or your bank info and they have all the means to get you with identity theft.

So that’s the Google Hangout Scam. Basically, if someone contacts you claiming to be from a company but doesn’t provide their email address connected to that company or showing that they are employed by that company or a legitimate recruiting/staffing agency and want to do a Google Hangout interview with you—RUN! Or you can do like me and have a little fun playing along with them (not giving any pertinent info) and then at the end tell them you know they are a scam and you recorded the whole #interview to put on YouTube later to expose them.

Okay so this is the second time that I've had somebody ask for an interview for me via Google Hangouts has anybody ever had this type of interview. I don't know if I'm just old or it is actually sketchy.

I am sure that the majority of you know of, have heard of or have even been in or experienced a similar situation but I just wanted to put it out there to remind and serve as a warning / awareness of the scams.

I know that there are many fellow citizens, young and old from all walks of life and in all kinds of situations who are going through some kind of hardship or facing a difficult times... perhaps, you or someone that you know is currently out of work and have been searching for employment for quite some time, maybe you’ve had a recent career change and are seeking new opportunities, maybe a parent whose children are grown and now looking to get back into working... whatever it is, please be extremely careful when applying for jobs online, when responding to an email sent by a person or employee claiming to be an associate from the “company” or business in the ad.

I have noticed that these scam artists are setting up fake employer accounts using platforms such as ziprecruiter, careerbuilders, craigslist, and indeed to post fake “employment ads.” They are also posing as employees/recruiters from temp agencies and survey companies pretending to offer work at home positions and survey jobs to individuals.

One particular scam is: PT/FT Package Inspector and Repackaging Associate Positions where they state that they will be paying employees $1000-$5000 a month to work at home... the packages and work orders will be sent to your home, where your job is to open up these packages from ebay, amazon and other retailer websites to check the contents and invoices to ensure that the contents match the invoices. You are then to repackage these items using your name and address and send the items to the “names and addresses” provided to you by the company. Once you complete a months worth if work you will log in and send your verification if completed orders to your so called manager to verify and your promised payment will then be issued out to you within one week. This is a scam. You are NOT ONLY repackaging ITEMS ORDERED WITH STOLEN CREDIT ACCOUNT NUMBERS BUT YOU ARE PROVIDING YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO THE SCAMMERS AND YOU ARE REPACKAGING THESE STOLEN GOODS FROM YOUR ADDRESS TO BE SENT TO VARIOUS TEMPOARARY ADDRESSES OF THE SCAMMERS. ONCE THE POLICE / AUTHORITIES ARE NOTIFIED OF THE UNAUTHORIZED ORDERS IT WILL BE TRACED AND TRACKED TO YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS AND YOU WILL BE IN A TON OF MESS! If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. If people were really getting paid $2-5K a month as a blue collar PT package checker, dont you think there would be a whole lot of people quitting their 8-5 jobs to work at home?! Use common sense, dont give out your sensitive information and dont provide any personal info that a scammer can easily use to target you.

Recently I posted a comment about getting a job. There was a response to which made me feel like I was prey. A person says to text them if I want a job, and believe me, my spider sense was all kinds of tingly. Please make sure you don't give ANY personal information to someone who has an offer that's too good to be true. Chances are it is too good to be true. Nothing good can come from someone giving you a personal phone number and no business credentials. I'm hoping that someone sees this and it prevents something from happening, it is like a house made of gingerbread, there's something bad inside waiting to eat you for dinner!!!! Take a compass when going into the forest of job searching, breadcrumb trails get eaten.....yeah, I know it's corny, but at least everyone can get what I'm saying(i hope).

Hi I spent over two hours on an online interview yesterday with people representing themselves as Magnum Medical Latvia for an admin/customer service position to work from home. They have a decent website. but there are english language issues and they want to send me a check to set up my office and software which is really scammy... does anyone have any further info or have had any experience with these folks?

That sound like a scam to me too please be careful, this time of year they really come out.