A text lands on your phone offering a remote Amazon job you never applied for.The work supposedly takes about an hour a day and pays as much as $600.
Sounds amazing, right?We recently received one of these messages.It claims to come from "Lauren Whitmore from the Amazon Remote Recruitment Team" and says Amazon merchants need help with quick "product refreshes."There is only one problem: the offer has scam written all over it.
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(Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson)The message says your "background" makes you a good fit for a "stress-free, task-based remote position." Yet there is no explanation of how this supposed recruiter found you.There is no job posting either.
Instead, the text lays out an unusually generous offer:Finally, it says applicants must be at least 23 and tells you to text "More Info" to a separate phone number.That combination should immediately raise questions.Here is where the pattern becomes hard to ignore.
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