Online task jobs

Stop me if you’ve read this article i spotted several days ago and did not blog. Its titled FTC warns of online task job scams hooking victims like gambling if you have not read it.

I believe these types of things have been talked about when the JRN’s very own Preston Gaylor has talked on numerous podcasts about the jobs he’s been presented with via email or other types of media.

So here’s the deal. If you put more money in to whatever is asked of you, you’re going to be getting more. The first paragraph states:

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warns about a significant rise in gambling-like online job scams, known as “task scams,” that draw people into earning cash through repetitive tasks, with the promises of earning more if they deposit their own money.

While this particular scam was pretty much non existant in 2020, it has risen significantly.

According to one paragraph, last year’s number was 5,000 but the first half of this year sees a report uptick of 20,000 reports.

The article states:

Consequently, reported financial losses from job scams tripled from 2020 to 2023 and exceeded $220 million in losses from January until June 2024. The FTC says that roughly 40% of those losses are caused by the increase in “task scams”, with $41 million reported stolen in the first half of 2024.

So, if you run an AI tool on this image, it is being described as a bar chart. Here’s Picture smart’s description that shows what the article just talked about.

Picture Smart wrote:

The image is a bar chart showing data over several years. Each bar represents a different year, labeled as follows:

– 2020: 0
– 2021: less than 500
– 2022: 1,000
– 2023: 5,000
– 2024 (through June): 20,000

The bars increase in height significantly from 2020 to 2024, with the most dramatic rise in 2024.

One of the places that re impersonated is Deloite.

Let’s see what Picture Smart says about this one.

The image is a mobile app interface with a “Deloitte” logo at the top. It displays financial stats: “Total Completed” (570), “Total Profit” ($212.33), “Total Balance” (-$405.01), and “Today’s Profit” ($34.95). The center features a large circular button with “Start 11/40.” Below are app icons including Jobs, Messenger, Netflix, Pinterest, Singtel, Telegram, Spotify, and YouTube. At the bottom, there are navigation tabs for “Home,” “Starting,” and “Records.”

Stop me if you’ve seen these paragraphs in some other place or not.

FTC explains that scammers approach victims via unsolicited messages on WhatsApp and other communication or social media platforms.

The scammer offers an easy way to make money, telling the target that all they have to do is perform a set of tasks every day to earn money, such as liking videos or rating products on online platforms or through a special app.

These scams impersonate legitimate companies, such as Deloitte, Amazon, McKinsey and Company, and Airbnb, and the victims are given tasks in sets, usually of forty items. The users are promised to receive upgraded commissions every time they complete a set and upgrade to the next level.

The job seems legit as you do start making money, but yet, they ask you to put in money to supposedly get more in bonuses or the like.

I don’t want to go through the entire article, but it does talk about some of the reddit comments saying that people believed they were making money, yet they lost significant amounts of money.

I would say that no job will ask you to pay anything in to you making money. If they offer healthcare, they’re taking your share of cost for that out of your check as well as taxes.

Please read the entire article so you understand what’s going on here. Again, the article is titled FTC warns of online task job scams hooking victims like gambling so please read this article. You’ll thank me later!