As you apply for jobs and post your resume online this year, be careful to screen the responses you get. A recent
WSMV-TV article detailed the negative experience that one woman had after
posting her resume on Craigslist.
After seeing the woman's resume online, a man contacted her asking her to help him handle financial affairs. Though she was suspicious, she nonetheless followed through. When she went to cash the checks the man sent her for her work, she realized they were fake.
This kind of scheme is becoming more common. WSMV-TV reports that "with unemployment rising, the FBI reports an increase in the number of Web-based schemes promising large amounts of money for at-home work."
Research employers who ask you to work from home, and consider that people who e-mail you and ask you to wire money may very well be scammers. Even if you deposit a cashier's check you didn't know was fake, you can still be responsible
for repaying any money you spent.
Research prospective employers, and ask for a non-refundable bank check as a deposit for your work. When it comes to accepting requests for work this year, do your reporting ahead of time so you won't get taken advantage of.
