Job Scams

No one would wish for a natural disaster on the magnitude of Hurricane Sandy, but if you're looking for a glimmer of hope and opportunity, rebuilding likely will mean more hours and pay for workers who help repair the damage. After the initial shocks to the economy related to $60 billion worth of lost output ...

For many unemployed Americans, the need to find a job, any job, has made them susceptible to con artists promising easy riches through work-at-home schemes and similar frauds. They include Barbara Beatteay, a 58-year-old cancer patient and stroke survivor who was unemployed, bankrupt and struggling to pay ...

Maybe it's not so boring in there after all. Any motorist who has passed a highway tollbooth, and who has never worked in one, probably has wondered what the job is like. Well, maybe it's not profitable enough, for starters. As first reported by the Chicago Tribune, a group of a dozen Illinois toll workers ...

By Tony Morrison If you've been unemployed in the past decade, you've probably surfed, scanned or studied a job board at one point. Job boards, the current generation of classified ads, are an open forum for employers to broadcast openings at their company. ...

Here's yet another good reason to limit your personal email and Internet usage at work and keep everything strictly business: You could be exposing your company to serious cyber-crime. In fact, certain industries are being specifically targeted, and if you're in one of them you should never click on a deal that ...

Bogus home-based Internet "business coaching services" are the latest target of the The Federal Trade Commission. It seems dozens of companies have been pushing a program that claims to help consumers create their own businesses, but that "consumers rarely, if ever, make any money as a result of the program or ...

Reports on CNN, advertisements on Yahoo boasting easy ways to make money from home, a job posting links on Google, professional e-mails sent directly to his inbox and phone interviews were what reassured Terry*, a 61-year-old writer based in the Midwest, that Mary's Money Blog was a legitimate employer. ...

If you are among the many Americans desperately looking for work, then you also might be among the growing number of victims who have fallen prey to job scams. Jobs that promise "easy money," "flexible work from home hours," or advertise "no experience necessary" are just some of the ways con artists posing ...

In this tough economy, it's hard enough for record numbers of the unemployed to find a job. Now, in addition to fighting the frustration of a challenging job search; the desperate unemployed also have to fend off a new trend of clever and unscrupulous online scam artists using deceptively enticing job ...