My coworker recently told me he moonlights doing an online job while working our normal job. I asked him what he does and he said that it’s hard to explain but there’s a powerpoint that explains when i get hired. He said it’s all legal and we get paid $10 an hour and pay goes out every week. He showed me he’s made an extra $250 this week on an excel spreadsheet. I think it sounds like a great opportunity/s
Anyway what flavor of scam do you think this guy is part of? I’m thinking mlm because he’s trying to bring others into the fold, but I heard him tell someone else theres a fee to join, and that screams pyramid scheme.
I had a similar experience and it turned out a be a MLM scheme, If you’re not going to be given any details on the job before you take the job then I definitely wouldn’t take it.
He’ll only tell you what the job duties are AFTER you’re hired and YOU have to pay to be hired? For $10/hr? Even if that wasn’t a straight up scam I wouldn’t invest time, money, and effort into signing up and doing onboarding if I didn’t know what the hell I was doing.
Hard to say exactly what’s going on there with that little info, though.
Exactly we need much more to go on
Yeah, hard to say the exact nature of the scam. It could be some kind of ponzi, paying out the teeny “wage” from the fees coming in from new recruits.
You’re joking right? You’re smarter than this.
…Right?
Yes.
It’s a scam.
How much is the “sign up fee”? Because, ngl, I’m really curries about that PowerPoint now.
Step 1: recruit people Step2: ??? Step 3: Profit
He said it’s all legal
I mean, if I were trying to recruit people into an illegal pyramid scheme, that is what I would say too.
Join fee + weird recruiting = Fonzie scheme.
Fonzie scheme.
Ayyy!
100% a scam and your coworker is either naive and needs someone to tell him that too or is an asshole who’s trying to get out of the hole he’s put himself in by recruiting other people
Absolutely an MLM or similar bullshit
A semi-octahedron
The fee to join makes this absolutely a scam, but everything else reminds me of trying to explain my work for Appen. They do extremely strict NDAs and pay similarly, it’s legit but it also kinda sucks, or at least all the projects I was on sucked.
If there’s a fee to join, it’s a scam. You don’t pay for your job.
If someone has to say it’s all legal, do you honestly think that isn’t a red flag?
“it’s all legal” is usually followed by “trust me bro” and then you get to learn about RICO
