Joshua Sidorowicz opened his CBS Philadelphia consumer report with the kind of warning that feels personal even if you’ve never been scammed: a Berks County grandmother thought she’d found a modest way to earn extra money from home, and instead she watched the savings she planned to retire on disappear in a matter of days.
He framed it as a scam alert with one clear purpose – stop the next person from walking into the same trap – and he made it obvious why this particular scheme is spreading so quickly: it doesn’t begin with something that sounds criminal, it begins with something that sounds like normal remote work.
Bonnie Haring, the woman at the center of Sidorowicz’s report, told him she wasn’t chasing some fantasy payday or trying to impress anyone with a sudden lifestyle upgrade…