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Job Scams that seem too good to be true

PaulFebruary 28, 2024

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I received this Text

(270)900-7242

Hi, my name is Nyla Lucas and I am a Recruiter at Conill Advertising & Media.
Our company is looking for online part-time employees, job certification is easy and free
Can be done with any schedule you have, even on the weekends
Can I send you job details?

I can only guess what the purpose of this part-time job or Full Time Job is. After saying I would like more information this is what this number sent me. I won’t say this isn’t too original to say the least.

Requirements: Age 22 and above. We offer part-time ($80-300/hour) and full-time ($1800-3800/month) positions. All you need to do is help them optimize the hotel, increase occupancy rate, exposure and ranking, and attract more Many locals and tourists stay here. Flexible application options are available that can be adjusted to fit your schedule. No contract or investment is required; free training is also provided. Part-time and full-time flexible jobs available, with the option to work from home. If you’re interested, I’ll give you more information, okay?

If it’s Too good to be true?

Let me say this once and for all after this text, I started getting red flags everywhere. At the most I haven’t even could imagine making 80 to 300 dollars an hour. Let alone for a part time position and we are to optimize and increase occupancy rate, and even raking. How would that even work. So I went on the web and started to deep dive into this type of job. I however am sure it is just a scam but let’s first understand that they are trying to get me to use WhatsApp and draw me away from sending text messages. That’s my first question, the next questions is who is “Conill Advertising & Media” and why would they want to increase the revenue of these hotels. I found some more examples of this company on Reddit. I don’t know if this is just an AI putting in random people’s name or if they are real people. After deep diving into the name of the person who it claims to be, I am a bit concerned. Nyla Lucas which has a felony and ther such things on her record was the first person to show up in Google. Now let’s not go saying this Nyla Lucas is the same one but I suspect that if it was a different one then I wouldn’t be using that exact name while trying to recruit people. I went to the Reddit post and checked out other users name that claimed to be doing the same thing and I found these are high profile people, so I must conclude that most of these are people are just using these name to guile people into this scam. Either way, let me remind people if it is too good to be true, then any usually isn’t something you want.

Thanks to another Reddit Post, this does seem to be a scam. Please be careful and don’t fall for these types of scam, because you need your money to survive. If they ever require you to pay for something and promising to pay you back than that is another red flag and don’t accept anything that might be Crypto Currency such as USDT which one person from the Reddit Post comments is how they will pay you. I am not sure why people try these sort of things but I do know they aren’t going to get me on this type of scam. I usually ask a lot of questions about this and try to find my answer way before they can get any money from me. Remember the old scam I got years ago which came in as a check. That one I will never forget because it was truly one of those that almost got me until I read what they wanted me to do. I blog about this stuff so you don’t have to loose your money and get caught loosing money.

You are not being investigated, or is there suspicious activity on your account!

PaulMay 14, 2021

Keep getting scam Calls

Today alone I got two identical scam calls from a local number. The Automated message warned that I was under investigation because of suspicious activity on my account, and I should dial 1 to talk to a representative. I really need to record this message and write down this automated messages just because it is obviously a red flag right there. There seems to be a lot of people who don’t know anything about these types of scams but here is what I already know before I even dial 1 just to keep the scammer busy for a few more minutes. I’m going to talk about some of the ways you know that it is a scam.

They Prey on your Fears!

This one is quite obvious to me at least because they want you to give them money or make it seems you are going to be arrested because of a debt or even your tax information is out there. I am sure that my information is never truly going to be private and I’ve talked about it time and time again. So I have to believe that it will eventually leak and someone will try to do something to use it against me. I am hopeful by the time they do that I won’t be alive to even worry about it.

There is a warrant for you arrest!

This is another one that I’ve heard recently by the phone scammers, they like to use this one with debt scam and trying to scare you to pay a debt or maybe not even that just to scam you for money. Either way, if there was a warrant for your arrest then you’d have someone knocking on your door this instant. Also if this is in relation to a debt than it is against the law, the Fair Credit Debt Act prevents creditors from doing this such thing to get money from you.

Social Security Administration

This is another red flag for anyone who gets a call from them. This is an obvious scam because social security will never call you. If there is a problem they will send you mail through your mailbox and not from a phone call.

Phone Number

It usually is a local number and or number that isn’t being used. 9 times out of ten, if you had any call id information it will look like a local number calling you. Again, they like to spoof their number and keep you from know where they are truly calling from or the real number. So when I hang up with them, I call that number back and find out the number is no long in use.

Won’t give you any information

They will never give you any information about why they called you or where they are calling from, or even give you a real number to call to confirm that this is them. I even tried to ask for the exact address from where they are calling from, they just hung up. Also be wary even if they give you their federal employee number, that another way they will use to get you to either give them money or steal your identity.

Never Give them any Information

This one goes without saying, no matter what never give them any of your information including but not limited to you Social Security Number, Your Full name, where you life, you’re phone number or anything like that. If they say they are from the Social Security Administration office and you’re concerned please hang up and call your local Social Security office to find out if you have a problem. They will probably tell you it was a scam like I suspect.

*UPDATE*

As of July alone, I got several phone calls from Orlando Florida area code (407) claiming something similar like this:

(407)540-3718
(407)548-2738
(407)434-8822
(407)483-8647

Why I do not click “Here” in emails and why you should to!!

PaulMarch 17, 2014

tools4technow.com

That isn’t going to happen!!

It isn’t like I do not know what might happen, but before I even did anything I check out the link by looking up the domain which if you want to check out what I see you will see the there isn’t really a main site link at the top of the Google search. Odd isn’t it, well I then looked at the urls that was after the domain name and I found:>

/-wqs-/generallaborer.com/Free/GetStarted.asp?aff=F7288B41-CC5D-4D08-B06C-FB03EF98DEFB

As you can see it looks to be a redirect to “generallaborer.com” with an Affiliate link that means someone gets paid for links that use that link. You can tell that someone gets paid by the “AFF=”. I also have my own affiliate links but you will know when I put a link on my site that pays me money when you use my link to buy stuff with.

Spam

It appears to be a scam or a way someone makes money when you sign up with a link to that site. I do know know what actually happens because I did not click on those links. I can only assume that it was a link spam and not a scam but I will never truly know and I am not really worried about that type of help from people who try to make money off you without telling you.

You rarely know what the links really go to from emails. They can be masked or hidden and you could even get a virus on your computer as easily as you can get one just surfing the net. It could also make you think your are logging into a site you visit often but in truth you are giving your password away to someone who will use it for all sorts of purposes. These are the main I will never click on links without some looking up of the domain in question. You should never click links that your are not expecting or from people who you do not know! Each one of these should be a first step to prevent something terrible from happening to you or your computer.

Internet Security 2013 Scareware and You!

PaulMay 21, 2013

Interesting Story

My Brother-in-Law had this come up on his computer and he needed help getting it removed. Some of the symptons were it would constantly say the file being executed had a virus and it would prevent you from loading any and all programs. Anything you do with your computer whether trying to remove this from your desktop was a hassle. I did have to do some things to remove it but I will talk about that in a few minutes!

Malwarebytes And SuperAntispyware!

If it was for Malwarebytes and SuperAntispyware, this would of been even harder remover than previous. I must say when I first install these a few years back, I didn’t know how well these guys worked and kept my system clean. I decided to try these two on my broather infected system to try to remove this scareware.

Removal of this virus!

If you are like me you probably used Google to find out how to remove this virus but I think the virus makers are getting smarter because it wasn’t as easy as it was a few years ago. They made it virtually impossible to find the answer with the computer you have that is infected. So you have to hope that you have another system to do the searching for the answer of the removal. Here is what I did to help remove this malware and scareware:

Startup in Safe Mode [LINK]
Login as Adminstrator
USE MalwareBytes and do a FULL SCAN, this will take a while and once done remove what you see.
Do a System Restore [LINK]. The Earlier the Better.

Once you have did those restart your computer then you should be able to install Malwarebytes to all users. When you can do that you are basically home free. Just install it again and do a full system scan, to help make sure you get rid of this scam and scareware malware. Once you do all this, if Malwarebytes did what you needed, it might be time to upgrade to Buy Malwarebytes Now!

I really am glad I had a full version of Malwarebytes to remove this annoying little scam and scareware. My brother is happy and I am happy.

Paul Sylvester

Scare advertising hitting android Devices!

PaulApril 12, 2013

androidantivirusfree.org

I Think NOT!

I was doing some stuff and this little advertisement appeared on my tablet:

Phone is Infected, Remove Virus Now! (Scare Tactic)

As you can see there is a lot to this that you can’t really, even though I know Androids aren’t immune. This seems to indicate the advertising of malware is on the rise. So I intend to help those who want to be helped. Let’s by chance think you have a virus on your tablet or phone. How do you get it off, there are a few ways. One you can do a hard reset and restore you phone or tablet to factory settings. Essentially wiping all information from the phone.

Don’t install any 3rd party applications!

Use coupon code “Savenow15” and Save 15% off the lifetime of your account!One of my common rules is not to install any third party applications unless I trust the source and just because they look legitimate doesn’t always mean they are. For example, the picture looks convincing enough but home site (androidantivirusfree.org) has nothing there which indicates to me that it is designed to install malicious software to make you buy there cure for their android virus or malware!

Although this is the beginning of this, I am just going to. I have already talked about this in a previous post so I will just say this. Don’t do anything without consulting a geek!