Hello everyone and welcome to my guide on how to identify and protect against MLMs and Job Scams. This will be a step by step guide to asking yourself or family members questions about the "company" so that you can easily prevent a large monetary loss. Common warning signs:
1) Do you have to buy the product?
Regular sales positions do not require you to buy product and then attempt to sell it for profit.
2) Do you have to host your own sales parties/pitches?
This incurs a large personal expense to you, from providing your guests with food and drink to buying additional wholesale product to display. All with no guarantee that anyone in attendance will actually buy anything.
3) Do they encourage you to recruit friends and family members, often with promises of a huge sign up bonus when they sell their soul?
Again, legitimate sales companies will not do this. First of all, they highly prefer people with actual sales experience rather than just a random bucko off the street. And second of all, this is a really fast way to destroy relationships, especially if you are super pushy about it.
4) Do they have seemingly "too good to be true" promises of rapid wealth and advancement?
When you are pitched a salary of 100k for entry level sales, you should be extremely wary. Often the only people who make any real money in MLMs are the people at the top of the pyramid.
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Job Scams
So you get an email from someone after throwing your resume onto one of the popular job search websites such as Indeed or Monster. But it seems...sketchy to say the least.
Check forwarding. The person will contact you with an interesting offer, cash this large check via Western Union and you can keep the remainder that you don't send. The only problem is that the check will bounce as soon as it clears your bank, leaving you to pick up the pieces of an overdrawn account.
Any job offer which requires check forwarding to a sketchy money transfer service such as Western Union, you should completely avoid.
Additionally, any offer that seems "too good to be true" (either you are under qualified or they claim to pay vast amounts above market value) probably is.
Good luck out there folks, I know its brutal.
Submitted June 10, 2017 at 12:54PM by thatonecoolkid99 http://ift.tt/2s8X4qr
