Hey guys, welcome back to Ask HL with Etonham, your channel for fainty HL. Have you ever seen a job at somewhere and you felt wow, this is too good to be true? Most likely it is. Without employment rates at an all-time high, scammers are taking advantage of people's desperation and really doping them. Scammers have always been around but now with technology they've been empowered to reach more people and also develop more tricks of scamming people. In today's video, I'm going to share with you four ways to recognize jobs comes and how to avoid them. So stay with me because you don't want to be this calm victim. One, promises of work from home and online jobs. Now these are bound today on YouTube, on many other social media platforms, promises work from home. Some of them say, just take this short survey and they will pay you this amount. Some say, okay, you're just transcribing this or you're just inputting this data for us, you're writing for us. I'm aware of some sites are referring for mentioning them that are authentic but most of these sites are just out there to scam you. Now scammers need two things from you, your money and your personal information. So they are either stealing from you or stealing information from you so that they can pose as you. They all are contributing to your head so anytime you receive this job and let's about doing something little for ridiculous amounts of money, you're most likely going to be scammed, do not fall for it. I always say there's that money gravitates towards value. So if you're not providing value for anything and yet people are promising to give you so much money, you will be a candidate for scamming if you fall for it. So please be aware of that. Number two, email job office. Now when a serious company office you a job is because they have engaged you sometimes on three decision levels before making a final choice for you. So you receive an email of a job offer, they have a job description and even how much they are going to pay you and you have no remembrance of engaging with the company like that. Sometimes out of desperation over the fact that you've been applying for several months or sometimes even yes, the offer looks good and you're tempted to go for it. Please do not fall for it. I always say that money goes towards value. The person is giving you the job because they know you are bringing something on board and here's the situation you've never demonstrated anything about how you're able to do the job yet. They are offering it to you on a silver platter. No, you're most likely going to be scammed. So this is from signing such office and sending it back. Now some of these emails come to you and it's let's say micro.soft.ecuia.gmail.com. The domain name alone is suspicious. So when you look at an email like that you know that no, this is probably a scam. If Microsoft is going to give you a job it would most likely be for example Hana.coady at micro.soft.com. So those are some of the red flags you need to watch out for when you receive email job office. Number three, Mars governments recruitment. I'm sure some of you have seen those before where you receive sometimes a text message or an email or sometimes in your LinkedIn. They say Mars governments recruitment. Government is recruiting for so-and-so agency and we need to prepare you for government-specific roles and we require you to pay so-so-and-so amounts. Now in the recruitment for hiring value chain is all about exchange. So you are bringing something on board for the persons money. It's not the other way around. So you don't pay first so you get the job. Anytime someone is asking you for money to provide something for you before a job, know that you are about to be scammed and do not fall for it. Never pay money for someone to link you to a job or to train you for a job. They are hiring you for your expertise. That's all you need. Your experience and your education and other requirements for the job. You don't have to pay money to someone to train you for a job. Let me give you this example. So I had a friend who was asked by this agency to sign up for a job. They actually said the job is available. We are just matching you to the organization but you need to complete this form first and then he goes ahead to fill it and they said now you need to come to a location. It was a very far place. The business spends almost the same amount of registration in transportation to get there. He gets there and he says this very small shop that was even closed with no one there and at 10 a.m, this shop was in open and there were several others that had been scammed who paid money in with their and were waiting. So you see, you do not have to pay money. You are offering value. Interact with them, they would see your value and they will hire you so you don't have to pay for it. Always see that as a red flag if you have to pay to get a job. Four, very fine job sites. If you have a typical job seeker, you probably have good, if you are an accountant, accounting job center class. So there are some job sites that will automatically pop up. Now because these sites are very bright and long, you may be deceived into thinking that then everything they put them as be authentic but no. Now how these job sites get their list census that they are accumulated from other companies websites who are advertising. Also these companies come to list on their job boards. So it's likely for others to come as to also create fake jobs, fake accounts and then come and list it there. So for very fine job sites, make sure you research the organization especially if it's not known. Sometimes when you go and go go and do your research, you don't even have to do a deep research. You Google the name and you realize on social media, they have multiple accounts, different teams and there's no coordination between the information they are putting out in all those accounts. Know that this organization or this fake organization is out there to scam me. Look out for these red flags. What kind of emails am I getting? How do the emails look like? What are the domain names? You don't want a gmail.com. You want at their company name.com. You don't want to be engaging with people who ask you for personal information like your slate, like your driver's license and other information. Even before you have any discussion about the role in question, you don't want to be engaging with someone who is asking you for money before they give you work to do. So this is not the things to look out for. So that you avoid falling for jobs comes. Thank you so much for watching today's video. Have you ever been a victim of a jobs come or do you know anyone that has been through it? 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