How To Identify & Report Jobs Scams In India: Work From Home Scams

Jobs Scams: The article published in the Times of India suggests that approx. 88% of workforces of India prefer to work from home, rather than going to the office. Sparingly 69% of employees believe that their productivity has skyrocketed by doing work remotely.

Especially in India, after the covid-19 pandemic, the people have adopted work from home jobs. Eventually, as work from home jobs are increasing, parallelly, scams related to these jobs are also expanding.

India is an exploring country in work-from-home jobs, and the job scammers are highly active in trapping the newcomers. If you are a remote worker, you might be familiar with these scams.

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How to identify jobs scams?

Here are some hacks and tips to overcome these jobs scams. Let’s take a closer picture!

• Email Id: Scammers will always send you fake job offers from a fake email id. If you are getting a job offer from an email domain like @hotmail.com, @yaho.com, then you need to worry about such emails. Fake job! The original job offer letters are always sent, through the company professional email id, like service@naukri.com, info@monsterindia.com, etc.
• Job Description: Observe sharply how the job description is written. If the job description spots any odd activities like spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, and the job doesn’t have any eligibility criteria, time to skip the job! The job scammer wants more people to join the job. Their main motive is that more people should commit a scam.
• Job Selection Method: Every job has a recruitment process to hire an employee. If you are not given proper guidelines, not taken any interviews, or don’t give any salutation after you get selected, it might be a fake job! Hiring a new employee is an effort-taking process, not so easy as it appears to us.
• Online Presences: Every professional job recruitment company has its online presence on various digital platforms and social media platforms. Check the recruiter’s social media hands, a website about us pages, etc. If they look inappropriate, then say a big NO to the scammer.
• Monetary Demand: Many job scammers will give you the greed of more money for less work. Especially in data entry jobs in India, scammers offer you more money, and they will tell you that you have to work for only 1hr a day.

Sometimes scammers will ask you to pay the security deposit to get a job. And they will tell you that you will get your money back when you get selected for their job. Such jobs are 100% scams!

NOTE: Don’t share any kind of personal and financial details with an inauthentic job board or a scammer.

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How to report jobs scams?

• If you are a victim of work from a job scam, then file a complaint in the nearest cyber security police cell. If it’s urgent, you can directly call 155260.

Police will demand you the scammer’s website and email details. The cyber security cell will track the scammer’s IP addresses on the basics of their contact details for you.

• If you have done any money transaction with the scammer, without further ado, contact your bank. Your bank will freeze the scammer’s account, and your bank will conduct an inquiry against the scammer’s account.

• If a job scam is too hard to resolve, you can file a case against the scammer under section 405 of the Indian penal code.

How to find legitimate jobs?

• Use authentic job portals like Naukri, Monster India, google jobs especially, for Indian jobs.
• If you love to work with foreign clients and want to freelance from home, you are good to go with a platform like Upwork, Fiverr, Freelancer, People per hour, etc.

• If you are a college student and want to join an internship to earn some side income, go through platforms like Intern Shala, LinkedIn, Lets intern, etc.

Pro-tip for freelancers: As a freelancer, always charge money in advance before you provide your services to your client. If the client is trustworthy, then it’s ok to take it easy.