Online ad posing job legit?

[Jake]

So I'm in high school looking for a job, and I came across this online ad posting job where I would work from home posting their ads on classified websites. It says I could earn up to 2,000 dollars a week and it pays daily. I was wondering if it is an actual job or a scam

[Samantha]

I wouldn't trust it. If something seems too good to be true, most of the time it is.

[Jake]

There's no possibility of it paying anything close to that, such a potential earning statement sounds like s acam setup, $200 a week would still be optimistic, knowing the number o useful ad sites that limit you to 1 ad a day or completely ban you after posting too many ads, I suspect much of the time they just want to use you up with a few ad then don't pay you.

You might have a look at the detailed list of $ penalties for violations you agree to pay when you sign up with Craigslist.org, though realistically they only go after larger professional posting services.
http://www.craigslist.org/about/liquidated.damages

[john]

100%SCAM! All those rip off scam ads are placed by fall guys answering adds like this leading the police directly to your door.

[Kittysue]

It's not a job - it's a scam that can land you in jail. And you won't ever get paid. You know all the people who come on Yahoo wondering how to get back the money they lost though a fake apartment/puppy/car/laptop/etc they found posted on sites like Craigslist, Gumtree, Kijiji, etc? Who do you think places those ads - the scammers? Or course not. They look for suckers to place these ads for them by dangling the promise of huge money in front of them. Then when the victim who lost hundreds or thousands of dollars files a police report, the investigation leads right to the person who placed the ad - and they are arrested and prosecuted for fraud

There is no company that asks random people to post ads from home. If they were doing anything remotely legit, they would hire a temp for $10/hour to do this from their office and place 50 ads in that hour. They don't pay $2000/week - that's over $100k a year. That's what the president of the company would make, not some low level admin person placing ads

[Visualday355]

100% scam.

There is no job.

There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money and maybe your freedom.

The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "assistant" and will supply you with stock ads of fake "cash the fake check" type jobs. You are suppose to post the ads, the victims contact the scammer, he sends them a fake check to cash and they send him their money via Western Union or moneygram. When the victims realize they were scammed, they report YOUR post to craigslist and now you are ip banned from ever posting there again. Being ip banned is the real reason that scammer can't post his ads for fake jobs.

Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

Any "paycheck" you receive will be fake and will bounce. In fact the scammer might try to steal more of your money by saying he "accidently" sent a check made out for "too much money". Then he will demand you cash that large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send most of the "money" via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer. When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.

Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails and texts from his other free email addresses and paid-for-in-cash cell phone number using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even partial sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

7 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs:
1) Job asks you to use your personal bank/paypal account and/or open a new one.
2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.
3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.
4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.
5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.
6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.
7) Job asks you to post ads on ebay/craigslist or on forums advertising merchandise, programs or other websites

Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.

If you google "fake job posting ads scam", "selling on ebay fraud Western Union" or something similar, you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.