4 Most Common Types of Job Scams in Nigeria:
1. False representation with intend to fraud

A typical Nigerian scam involves an emotional email, letter, text message, or social networking message coming from a scammer (which can be an official government member, a businessman, or a member of a very wealthy family member – usually a woman) who asks you to give help in retrieving a large sum of money from a bank, paying initially small fees for papers and legal matters. In exchange for your help, they promise you a very large sum of money. They will be persistent and ask you to pay more and more money for additional services, such as transactions or transfer costs. You’ll even receive papers that are supposed to make you believe that it’s all for real. In the end, you are left broke and without any of the promised money. one of the most common online scams

2. Ask for confidential information
Scammers may ask you to provide personal and financial data like bank account details, proof of address, and passport copies. They ask for this information on the pretext of the requirement for eligibility assessment and background check. The scammer may sweep clean your entire bank account.

3. Seek money
They may ask you to pay a fee to get the job. In his interview with The Guardian Nigeria, the President of the Human Capital Providers Association of Nigeria (HuCaPan), Neye Enemigin mentioned a young man who came to his office as head of HR in a well-known company to resume work with a forged employment letter of the company name given to him by one of the scammers. Mr. Enemigin said that scammers extort money from jobseekers promising to secure employment for them. This is very rampant during recruitment by government agencies.

4. Set free from 9-5 jobs and be your own boss
A scammer may lure people with work from home opportunities. The catch? They just need to send a wire transfer or money order upfront to pay for some equipment or educational materials before they can get started, but these never arrive, and there is no actual job. Another way is a scammer may ask you to invest money to buy goods from them to set up your own business. They will claim that you can earn an enormous amount of money after learning their secret formula but be cautious as they might lure you into something illegal. For example, O’neal Inc claims to be a multifaceted consulting firm with expertise in human resources management, healthcare management, and management. However, they are an MLM and GNLD company out to collect money from you to supply you with health products with a promise of financial reward. But in reality, O’Neal Inc. is a foreign company in construction with an address at https://www.onealinc.com/
Another job scammer goes by the name Starline Consult Nigeria Ltd. It is into multilevel marketing looking for candidates to swindle to sell drugs.

Yes, certain professions like journalists, photographers, writers, translators, or interpreters allow you to be your own boss, but here you have your own skill that you put in to make money.

Ins and outs of a typical scammer

These fraudsters are becoming more and more crafty in the way they operate, and it’s becoming more difficult to differentiate between a scam and a legitimate job vacancy.

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Here are 16 Telltale Signs That A Job Posting Is Actually A Job Scam:
You never applied; they just found your resume online and are so impressed with you that they are ready to either interview you or offer you the job right away.
The pay is unbelievably high. Have you ever heard of something like $45 per hour for a work-from-home with flexible working hours? This kind of money is unusual for admin or any low-skilled work from home job.
The job description is overtly simple that almost everyone qualifies.
The emails are full of typos, grammatical mistakes, and poor formatting.
The email id is generic like Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail or email ids are quite close to real companies. For example, the fake recruiter’s email id is MaryJonas@gmail.com. If she is a real recruiter, the email id will be from a business domain like MaryJonas@linkstreet.com or the scammer’s email address is job@synergy-world.com, but the real company email is jobs@synergyworld.com
An imitation of a similar company such as UnilevR, but the real company is Unilever
They will conduct the job interview via instant messaging service.
They do after-hours calls like before 7am and after 9pm
The scammer’s email has no signature or contact information.
They ask you to pay for something like buying software, getting training, reviewing your resume, or completing background checks
They ask you to cash a check or forward some money from your bank account to a third party
No real website of the hiring company shows up in your search results.
They have multiple opening all over the internet with the same job description
They ask you to provide confidential personal information
They ask you to pay to get a job.
The scammer shows a sense of urgency. Usually, legitimate companies aren’t blatantly pushy to accept their job offers immediately.

How to Tell if a Job is a Scam And Ones That Are Legitimate
Here are 5 things that you must check to differentiate between a legitimate job offer and a fake job offer

1. Strange email id
Emails that are sent from a personal account like Gmail or Yahoo are scams. The savvy scammers may create a fake account that resembles the actual email account of an organization. Carefully read it. For example, you could receive a job offer from ‘jobs@acenture.com, whereas the actual email account of the organization is ‘jobs@accenture.com’.

2. Unclear job description
Read the job description carefully. Usually, job scams list very generic job requirements like “must be 18 or above, must have access to internet and phone, must have a valid passport, NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED’. Take a moment to think about it. For such a job requirement, how many people will qualify? Almost half the world. Isn’t it? Don’t you think why someone will pay so much money for this kind of job? Another warning sign is that the scammer highlights they will provide on-the-job training, and you only need to accept the offer. No genuine company hires an employee without first checking his or her qualifications.

3. Text in the body of the job offer
Now, genuine companies are very particular about writing professional emails without errors. They consider this a reflection of their employer brand in the job market. However, a job scam email will be full of punctuation, grammatical, and spelling mistakes. Unnecessarily, words and sentences will be bold-faced, underlined, or italicized to attract attention. For example, IMMEDIATELY, ACT FAST, EARN NOW, NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED, TRAINING PROVIDED, etc. Also, it will be an unsigned email. There will be no signature at the bottom of the email with the person’s designation and contact details.

4. Interview process
Job interviews for actual jobs are always conducted professionally. Initial rounds may be done via Google Meet, Skype, or Phone call, but there will be at least one face-to-face round. If a job offer says an interview will be conducted by ringing a dialing code or through instant messaging apps, be sure it is a scam.

5. No salary breakup was provided
Job scammers provide one attention-grabbing figure as your salary that looks irrational. A job scam will say $XXXXXX is your annual salary. In reality, there is always an HR personnel explaining the salary and its components to the candidate and seeking confirmation on proposed salary acceptance. This is called salary negotiation. There is never one flat figure as a salary that you take home. A salary always consists of different components like Basic, HRA, Gratuity, Pension/Provident Fund, Allowance, etc. The job offer must provide the details of salary breakup to a new hire.

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