Beware of fraud in the form of recruiting collaborators for online selling

In the past time, fraud in cyberspace in the form of recruiting collaborators for online selling are constantly increasing. There have been many people who have become victims of fraudsters, being deceived to tens, hundreds or even billions of dong.

In order to help you better understand this form and method of fraud, in today’s video, PL & Partners Law Firm will inform you and your friends about the tricks of the crooks as well as recommend preventive measures.

1. TRICKS OF FRAUDSTERS.

First, fraudsters will use social networks i.e Zalo, Facebook to post job advertisements for sales collaborators for e-commerce companies such as Lazada, Shoppe, Tiki, etc.

They make very attractive offers such as:

Commissions up to 10-20%.
Earn millions every day without a degree or experience.
Work from home, only need a phone or computer to connect to the internet and a bank account to receive payments
Receive money immediately after a successful order.

When someone is interested, the fraudster will actively add friends and introduce themselves as employees of companies. They will explain to you that because the company needs to increase the rate of purchase interaction on the website so they have to recruit collaborators to deal with virtual orders. Accordingly, you only need to spend an initial amount of money to buy goods on the link provided by the fraudster. After a successful order, they will return you the principal and a commission of 10-20% of the order value.

Initially, to create trust and stimulate your greed, objects will provide links on Shopee, Lazada, Tiki, etc. of some products with value from a few hundred thousand dongs to one or two million dongs and a bank account number. When you make a transfer of the amount corresponding to the order value on the system, the object will return it to you as agreed.

For the first 2-3 transactions, the fraudster will pay the full principal and commission to lure you into making larger transactions.

However, when you transfer a large amount of money to order goods, the fraudster will not transfer the money back to you but gives many reasons such as: Wrong order code, incorrect transfer content, incomplete task and that you need to transfer more fees to fix the problem, you only just get 95/100 credit points, you need to continue transferring money to complete 100 points, etc. Their purpose is to continue to lure you to transfer more money.

With the mentality of wanting to quickly get back the original amount spent, many people continue to transfer money. At that time, they will continue to give many other reasons.

Until you find out that you have been frauded, the fraudster will lock their phones, change their numbers and you can no longer contact them.

And then when you check their social network accounts, phone numbers, they are all fake information.

With this trick, fraudsters have deceived many victims. According to the information from the police authority, hundreds of fraud cases occur every month in the form of recruiting collaborators, causing billions dongs damages.

And when the victim contacts the police, it is often too late so it is difficult to track down the crook. It is also almost impossible to get the stolen money back.

*Currently, fraud in the form of recruiting collaborators for online selling is constantly increasing.*

2. SOME NOTES TO AVOID FRAUD.

Therefore, to avoid being frauded, you and your friends should be vigilant and note the following points:

Carefully check the employer’s information before registering as a collaborator for companies, enterprises, and goods and service providers in cyberspace through various sources to verify the Be especially wary of “junk” phone numbers that fraudsters often use to contact such as numbers with prefixes that are international area codes, etc.
Do not provide your personal photos, ID numbers, bank account numbers or even your relatives and friends; do not transfer money to designated accounts in cyberspace.
Do not install phone applications; do not access the path (link) provided by suspicious people. Please look up the phone applications provided by the fraudster to see if they are in the application store for Iphone and for Android phones. Otherwise, these are untrusted applications that should not be installed.
When detecting cases, crooks showing signs of fraud in cyberspace, please quickly denounce, provide information and immediately report to the local police agency for advice, support and verification, handling.
Actively participate in propaganda, mobilizing relatives and friends to know, raise vigilance, proactively identify, prevent, and do not allow fraudsters to take advantage of you through cyberspace.

*To avoid being frauded, everyone should always be vigilant and note 05 points as set out above.*

In this article, PL & Partners Law Firm has informed you and your friends about fraudulent tricks in the form of recruiting collaborators for online selling.

Hope this information will help you better understand the tricks of fraudsters as well as have the necessary knowledge to avoid fraud in the future.

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