Ah, the dream job we’ve all been waiting for: low effort, high reward, all from the comfort of your home. Who wouldn’t want to make a fortune from their couch while scrolling through social media, right? Enter the latest twist in the "work from home" revolution that seems to have gained even more traction post-Covid: scams that promise you the world, but deliver, well, absolutely nothing. A prime example comes from Malaysia, where a 38-year-old housewife from Pera, Pahang, decided to give one of these too-good-to-be-true opportunities a shot and ended up losing a small fortune.
This woman, likely the latest addition to the "job-seekers suckered in by easy-money schemes" club, was lured by an ad on social media. Because nothing says "trustworthy" quite like an unsolicited online ad, right? So, on december 13, she joined a group called "Handcraft Group 049" on Telegram. Sounds promising, doesn’t it? I mean, who wouldn’t want to be part of such a creative-sounding collective?
But, alas, the "opportunity" soon took a turn for the worse. The job, supposedly a platform for crafting and selling various products, turned into a never-ending cycle of performing tasks only to be told there were "errors" in the work. Rinse, repeat, send money. The scam artists were clever, asking her to keep paying to "fix" issues that didn’t actually exist. The promise? Substantial profits. The reality? Constantly emptying her bank accounts.
In the end, she managed to rack up a total loss of Rs. 27.3 lakh, sending money to not one, not two, but nine different bank accounts. Because if you’re going to get scammed, you might as well go all in, right? The best part? After all those payments, the site magically "showed" that she had earned a whopping Rs. 38.06 lakh. Naturally, she tried to withdraw this fortune, only to find that the "earnings" were as fake as the entire operation.
By now, it’s clear she’d been thoroughly duped. She lost all her personal savings in the process, and after the fact, the police released a statement warning the public about job opportunities that promise easy tasks and high earnings. Because, as we all know, when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
Moral of the story? If your dream job is telling you that you can make huge sums of money without doing anything hard (or at least without having to do something that feels like real work), you might want to look a little closer. Or better yet, just keep scrolling past those social media ads.
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