Beware of human trafficking criminals from the “trap” of high-paying light jobs
For about a month now, Ms. Nguyen Thi Nga (35 years old) in Hanoi has continuously received messages from her phone and Facebook chats soliciting messages from other people.
“They texted to introduce a company that was looking to recruit workers. There is no fee, the monthly salary is 8 million not including overtime, but you have to pay a filing fee of 500,000 VND,” Ms. Nga said.
This is the first time I’ve heard of a company inboxing directly to recruit like that, so I’m a bit skeptical. I checked the company name online and called the company’s phone number and they said there was no need to recruit people.
The increased demand for jobs at the end of the year is an opportunity for job scammers to profit. Photo: NT
Not all workers are as smart as Ms. Nga. Many freelance workers, because of their “thirst” for work, are impatient and fall into the trap of scammers. Mr. Nguyen Van Nam (29 years old) from Ba Thuoc district, Thanh Hoa came to Hanoi to find a job. As a result, I have not been able to find a job, but 2-3 brokers who introduced me to find a job kept my identification documents.
“At first they said they wanted me to work as a security guard on a 2-week probationary period. After 1 week of probation, they said I didn’t complete the job, was slow, and let me quit. When asked if there was salary support, they said because it was a probationary period, they only covered food and accommodation without salary,” Mr. Nam said.
Mr. Vu Quang Thanh – Deputy Director of Hanoi Employment Service Center warned that the end of the year is a “hot” time for scammers to operate. The reason is that at the end of the year, recruitment and job search activities increased, especially job searches for freelance workers. Therefore, workers need to be extremely vigilant.
“A common activity of scammers is to lure workers with the guise of ‘light work with high salary’ or send links for workers to log in to take over bank accounts or zalo accounts, Facebook… to defraud money island,” Mr. Thanh said.
Therefore, Mr. Thanh noted to workers, absolutely do not provide identification documents, citizen identification cards and do not pay any money to recruitment staff.
“Freelance workers who want to find jobs can go to public employment service centers in provinces and cities to find information or go to the labor departments of districts for advice. When looking for jobs online, workers You should not submit identification documents or pay money to the recruiter,” Mr. Vu Quang Thanh said.
Many diverse scams at the end of the year
Not only job scams, there are many scams such as: Selling airline tickets; Changing money… is also everywhere.
Hitting the psychology of many people who want to buy cheap airline tickets, many scammers have created pages selling cheap airline tickets online to scam people. This is one of the high-tech fraud tricks that has just been warned by the Information Security Department.
Accordingly, the subjects posted cheap airline tickets for sale, used high-tech software to create fake transactions, and even sent customers successful ticket booking transactions from airlines so that customers could trust and transfer money to book tickets.
In fact, those transactions are only reservation for 24 hours, so when customers transfer money, they will block contacts, cut off contact, and booking reservations according to airline regulations, if If you do not transfer money, the transaction will be canceled.
Warning about labor scams selling airline tickets online. Photo: Hanh An
The most widespread is the form of fraud recruiting workers on social networks to work online in which the advertisers only need to praise the article, company products… and they will be paid a salary of 400,000 – 500,000/day. However, once “in the trap”, the victim will be asked to transfer money to get a higher commission.
By attacking the desire to earn more money, after transferring money, they are worried about losing that money…, leading to many people constantly transferring money to their request, only to lose dozens, even hundreds of millions of dong.
Recently, a new trick appeared. That’s because many people have been scammed and their money is stuck on social networking sites. Many scammers have impersonated lawyers and judicial agencies to help victims recover lost money or forged documents. An organization specializing in handling situations of fraud and money being suspended, advertising as hacker experts, specializing in taking money from victims…
Having lost a large amount of money, unfortunately, many people continue to become victims for the second time of these people when the money is defrauded and not only cannot be recovered, but they also lose an additional amount of money.
As the Lunar New Year approaches, authorities advise people to be extremely wary of attractive offers on social networks, especially money-related transactions, because of the tricks of scammers. increasingly sophisticated.
