She desperately needed a job to cushion herself and her family from unemployment shocks caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. “I had just lost my job after a manufacturing company I was working for scaled down operations because of Covid-19. Big corporations have not been spared by schemers fleecing desperate job seekers. Through its Twitter account, the DCI urged job seekers to beware of anyone posing as employers or recruiters and to check directly with the company first. DCI said online conmen use emails to offer jobs in exchange for money and said the emails should be considered spam.

Source: The Star June 20, 2020 08:56 UTC