{"id":80420,"date":"2024-06-06T05:13:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T09:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=80420"},"modified":"2024-06-06T05:13:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T09:13:20","slug":"fbi-warns-of-fake-work-from-home-jobs-stealing-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/fbi-warns-of-fake-work-from-home-jobs-stealing-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Warns of Fake Work-from-home Jobs Stealing Crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation<\/a> (FBI) warns job seekers not to fall for \u201cwork-from-home\u201d job scams and that it may be a plan to steal crypto.<\/p>\n\n\n

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FBI Warns of Fake Work-from-home Jobs Stealing Crypto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The FBI issued a warning on June 4 regarding increased fraudulent employment advertisements for work-from-home positions. The scammers will approach their prospective victims with unsolicited calls or messages, offering a relatively straightforward task, such as rating restaurants or “optimizing” a service by repeatedly clicking a button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The victims may even believe they are earning money, as the scammers will direct them to a fake interface that indicates they are earning money (although they will never be able to pay it out).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deception is particularly effective when the victim is instructed to make cryptocurrency payments <\/a>to the fictitious employer to “unlock” additional work. However, the fees are remitted directly to the scammer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FBI observed that you must make cryptocurrency payments to your employer as part of your employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Red flags that may indicate fraud include job descriptions that employ the term “optimization” excessively and those that do not require references during recruitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unsurprisingly, an expanding number of individuals are falling prey to the trap, given the growing popularity of the work-from-home lifestyle. Statista data indicates that the proportion of remote laborers worldwide will increase to 28% by the conclusion of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Percentage of people who work from home all or most of the time worldwide. Source: Statista<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, remote employees are permitted to establish their residences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a recent interview with Cointelegraph Magazine, Dominic Frei, a crypto consultant based in Canggu, stated that he relocated his wife and two small children from Switzerland to Bali for a more suitable climate and lifestyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only months have passed since the FBI disclosed an alarming statistic regarding the volume of crypto-related fraud in the United States in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On March 9, Cointelegraph cited a report from the FBI that demonstrated a 53% increase in investment losses involving crypto, from $2.57 billion in 2022 to approximately $3.94 billion in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People fall prey to one of the most prevalent crypto schemes: romance scams<\/a>. This is the process by which a criminal creates a fabricated online identity to captivate the trust and devotion of a victim. Subsequently, the criminal fabricate a narrative to entice the victim to send cryptocurrency, only to disappear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns job seekers not to fall for \u201cwork-from-home\u201d job scams and that it may be a plan to steal crypto. The FBI issued a warning on June 4 regarding increased fraudulent employment advertisements for work-from-home positions. The scammers will approach their prospective victims with unsolicited calls or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":80434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[376,1943,1135,19866],"class_list":["post-80420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-fbi","tag-fraud","tag-work-from-home-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}