A job offer offering remote work, good benefits and $45 an hour seemed almost too good to pass up. However, for one Chicago-area woman, that job offer turned out to be a sophisticated scam.
Shayde Fisher from Wheeling says the scammers went as far as conducting a video interview, sending official-looking employment paperwork and even mailing her a check.
Fisher was looking for a new career after earning her MBA online and thought she’d found the perfect fit — an online content editor. The posting came through Indeed and what followed looked and sounded like a normal hiring process…