Are you a Victim?
The Work from Home concept is very
attractive for most people, as the advertisements offer huge sums of
money for a few hours of simple work. But would you really be paid well
for doing nothing much! If it is too good to be true, then it probably
is not true !
The modus operandi is usually attractive
advertisements on websites, public places and social media. The
application procedure involves filling up a form with all your details
and you have to purchase a welcome kit. If you refer more people then
you get paid a percentage for each reference that materializes, so
basically you make other people also fall prey to the scam.
The scope of work is mostly like:
- Envelope stuffing (mailing programs)
- Assembly work
- Gifting programs
- Email processing
- Rebate processing
- Repackaging
- Payment processing
- Jobs that ask for money to hire you
- Businesses that don’t have an evident product or service.
I
you are a victim of a work from home
scam, then cyber laws has recourse for you.If the scammers use your
personal data to make fake profiles and commit any crimes, then they are
liable under Section 66-D for Cyber Personation, which is punishable
with imprisonment up to 3 years and a fine.
The scammers are liable for Identity
Theft under Section 66-C if they use your password or any other unique
identification feature.
The scammers are liable under Section 43
of the Information Technology Act makes unauthorized access an offence,
and Section 43 A makes a Company liable for breach of privacy and
confidentiality by payment of compensation to the victim for failure to
protect data.
The data that you provide to the
scammers is priceless.
Along with your personal information they have
your credit card data too and misuse the same. When you purchase the
welcome kit you may not be directed to a safe payment portal. This
renders you vulnerable credit card frauds. And your personal data is
sold to marketing companies without your consent.