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It’s no surprise that the rate of people seeking jobs online has seen a huge spike increase in this year 2020. With all the major corporates shifting to a work from home scene, job searches in Goa have been on the rise. Anyway, while there have been ample work opportunities for people who earlier couldn’t move out, or stay at home moms there has also been an unfortunate rise of cybercrimes online. The rise in online job seekers has given online criminals the opportunity to exploit these people, with fake offers to extract bank information. Hence, here we have mentioned a few main points so that you can avoid such scammers from fooling you. 

Spot the red flags 

If you look carefully, you’ll be able to locate these red flags that we talk about to alert you about a fraudulent job offer in Goa. Think about it, the best jobs in Goa won’t have simple mistakes in their official name or website, right? Hence, misspellings, grammatical errors, redirection to a page that does not have the same domain name are warning signals to watch out for. Another common pointer is the contact email address. Make sure that it is the primary domain of the organisation. For example, an ad that uses a microsoft@gmail.com email address should raise concern.

Do not pay

If a job portal in Goa is asking you to pay some sort of monetary income before even being considered, then that is a back button right there! It is quite obvious that an ad is not obvious the moment it tells you to provide your bank details or anything similar before offering you the job being advertised. The best jobs in Goa will pay you for what you are worth in terms of skill and contribution, rather than the amount you pay upfront for a career opportunity.

Always be alert when job ads request information or personal details that are not present in your resume. 

Post anonymously

One of the growing cyber crimes apart from cash stealing is identity theft. The increasing danger someone impersonating a senior employee in a reputed company to obtain access to an applicant’s personal data are reasons enough to post an anonymous resume. Majority of the criminals target genuine job hunters to obtain their personal particulars with a purpose to spam them. They do this so they can tap into an existing and real database and send attractive business opportunities, that are more often than not, just marketing schemes to get you to enter your bank details. 

If you really do not have a choice and have to post publicly, avoid putting out sensitive information like number, D.O.B and address. These are easy ways for identity thieves to extract more data and create fake credit cards or take out loans.

Always be alert always while filling out a job form online, and you’ll easily be able to tell if someone is trying to scam you in the pretext of offering a job.