A surge of adverts claiming that Facebook have launched a “work-from-home” program that can earn you thousands of dollars every month have been appearing online recently.
A variety of messages purporting to offer a Facebook work from home program are carrying links to sales pages that state Facebook are now hiring people to work from home and that you can make thousands of dollars every month.
The promotional material for these opportunities state that the work is easy, requires no experience and you can work limited hours to become successful.
It all seems a little too good to be true, and that’s because it is. Facebook have no work-from-home program like this, and the companies behind such schemes are unlawfully using the Facebook brand to lure victims into what is an otherwise standard work-from-home scam.
One of many images used by such scams.
Work-from-home scams work by promising apparently lucrative opportunities under the heavy weight of misleading promises and hype. In reality such schemes typically sell relatively basic online marketing information under the guise of a “kit” or “program” when it is neither.
These schemes will promote such information as a near guarantee to financial wealth but this is not based on reality, and they’ll protect themselves with fine print that state the claims made in the promotional material are “not necessarily an accurate reflection on what you will earn.” They also use a number of misleading tactics to fool people into believing they have been selected, such as there are available positions in their location, when in reality everyone who embarks on these opportunities are told the same thing.
Victims are forwarded to standard work-from-home scams like this one
Additionally the fine print is often used to hide monthly subscription charges that are difficult to cancel. Such work-from-home schemes – even ones using the Facebook name – are notorious for issuing unauthorised or hidden charges on debit or credit cards, and given that such schemes use a great deal of deception in their sales tactics, it is hardly surprising that giving them any kind of payment information is not a good idea.
Working from home is a popularly sought-out market and it is indeed possible, but opportunities like these that use a variety of deceptive hype and sales tactics are never the answer. We discuss these scams in more details here – which we dub “posting links for money scams” – as well as discuss some legitimate resources for those looking to make money online.
