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2025 job search scam exposed! Money gone in four steps, typical Task Fraud~~

Recently, Xiaomei from Shenzhen, China was looking for a job on a recruitment platform. The system recommended a job as a promoter for an e-commerce platform. Xiaomei took the initiative to contact the other party, who claimed that she could earn income by completing promotion tasks in the group.

Xiaomei followed the instructions of the other party and entered the URL to download a certain software. She entered the invitation code provided by the other party to enter the work group and started this " new job " . In the first two days, Xiaomei earned 37 commissions totaling 12,000 RMB by completing tasks. As a result, Xiaomei gradually relaxed her vigilance and began to claim large transfer tasks. She transferred a total of 560,000 RMB to the other party in 4 times . When Xiaomei wanted to withdraw the money, the other party said that Xiaomei had made an operational error and needed to recharge another 200,000 RMB before she could withdraw the money. At the critical moment, Xiaomei remembered the anti-fraud propaganda she had received before - " advance payment = fraud " , and realized that she had encountered fraud, so she called the police in time.

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Police analysis shows that this is actually Task Fraud disguised as " looking for a job " , which induces victims to " do tasks + advance funds " , and the victims' money is defrauded in four steps.



1. Well-known recruitment websites attract fraudsters to post False recruitment information on well-known recruitment websites to attract job seekers to apply.

2. Induce job seekers to download fraudulent apps . Induce job seekers to download fraudulent apps under the pretext of " easy part-time job " or " online assessment " .

3. Small rebates to gain trust. First, give job seekers a small commission for successful withdrawals to let them relax their vigilance.

4. Large amount transfers to commit fraud. After the job seekers have tasted the sweetness, they gradually increase the amount of recharges. The fraudsters make large recharge requests on the grounds that the frozen account needs to be unfrozen due to " operational errors " , thus committing the final fraud.

Here is a 'reminder':



Fraudulent information can also be posted by criminals on well-known recruitment platforms. Be sure to keep your eyes open when looking for a job online. Any request to advance funds to complete a task is a scam!



Key 'point': Advance payment = fraud!