CANBERRA, ACT, April 20 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
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"Earn $1000 a month from home! No experience needed. Work just 1-3 hours a day. Apply now!"
Does this job ad look familiar? Maybe it popped up on your social media feed or magically landed in your email inbox. Either way, it's not the once-in-a-lifetime unicorn job offer it purports to be. Rather, it's a flat-out con job - and one that can have criminal consequences.
Criminals are targeting Australians looking for flexible, remote or part-time work by posting fake job ads online.
They're called employment or job scams and are designed to exploit job seekers by o...