The police publish a media release warning the public about a new type of employment fraud in which scammers provide phony online job offers that need victims to do simple chores like social media postings to increase viewers.
This post can include Instagram accounts, product advertisements and many more.
Victims might get unsolicited text messages, WhatsApp messages, or internet advertising promising high-paying part-time affiliate marketing employment in these situations. The con artists would say that by like social media postings and videos, victims would be paid a commission.
A user once send a complaint to Singapore Uncensored trying to warn others of such scams.
Victims were urged to sign up for accounts on fraudsters’ websites in order to do the task and receive commissions. These websites also provided mobile application downloads to make using their services more easier. According to the websites, the victims were given employment packages with various amounts of commission paid each assignment, based on the packages they signed up for.
Before they could begin doing the task and earning commissions, the victims would have to sign up for these packages by paying advance payments to bank accounts belonging to unknown persons.
Victims were usually persuaded that they were being asked to undertake genuine labor because they would be paid.
