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.
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He’ll only tell you what the job duties are AFTER you’re hired and YOU have to pay to be hired? For $10/hr? Even if that wasn’t a straight up scam I wouldn’t invest time, money, and effort into signing up and doing onboarding if I didn’t know what the hell I was doing.
Hard to say exactly what’s going on there with that little info, though.
Exactly we need much more to go on
You lost me after “it’s hard to explain but there’s a powerpoint presentation”. I would pass.
Sounds like MLM bullshit at best, or something illegal like being a money mule at worst.
My moneys on answering capchas.
Answering captchas pays much much less than that.
Are you calculating for inflation?
Even with inflation. Answering captchas for 8 hours a day will get you maybe 100$ a month.
Those “jobs” are meant for third world countries. Even then it’s a pretty low pay.
https://thebestbusinessadvice.com/captcha-typing-jobs/#h-how-much-can-you-earn-from-captcha-typing-jobs
If someone has to say it’s all legal, do you honestly think that isn’t a red flag?
If he has to explain that it’s legal, and refuses to tell you what it is until you get hired, it’s a scam. Probably an MLM he got sucked into.
I’d like to point out that you left out the fee to join, because that’s the smallest red flag of all these flags.
I feel like the $10/hr is to make it not sound like bullshit.
I once had a customer tell “I know it sounds like a pyramid scheme, but it’s not” which all but confirms something is a pyramid scheme. I’m gonna assume “it’s definitely legal” is actually code for it’s completely illegal.
It’s a reverse funnel system.
I mean, if I were trying to recruit people into an illegal pyramid scheme, that is what I would say too.
I agree, it sounds like an MLM, pyramid scheme, or some type of reverse funnel system.
I like to call it the one sided diamond
A semi-octahedron
you already know this, but if you need to hear it, this is a scam.
anything you describe by “its all legal”, is illegal, guaranteed. And don’t get me started on the fee to join, it’s not even a good ponzi, how is $10 an hour supposed to interest anyone?! my guess is that secret powerpoint will tell you to recruit people for a reward.
your “friend” sounds like this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEsm7vDl3zU but aimed for less rich people.
That dragons den clip was hilarious. It wasn’t even his pyramid scheme!!
Depends on locatio; in other parts of the developing world, $10 USD/hr wouldn’t be too shabby.
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I like how you can tell who didn’t read your whole post by them giving you real advice about not taking this job
Ultra gigantic red flag.
For sure. I think it violates Grice’s maxim of quantity - I’ve never seen a legitimate job posting where they felt the need to tell me how legal the job is. That call-out being in there is decidedly worrisome haha.
An entertaining video on the maxims from Tom Scott: https://youtu.be/IJEaMtNN_dM?si=GxmkO8Is3B9EaibZ
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Join fee + weird recruiting = Fonzie scheme.
Ayyy!
A FUCKING FEE for a $10 an hour job? WTF? Nope!
Lol wild right. I think the big selling point was that i could work 2 jobs at once.
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.