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'Decoding Commercial Crimes' on employment and |
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If a fraudster claims he or she represents a company and offers a job to a jobseeker for sinister purposes, it's called employment fraud. With the ubiquity of the Internet, fraudsters post messages on discussion forums to recruit couriers, models or construction site workers, etc. When jobseekers respond to the "recruitment", the fraudsters would invite the applicants to attend an interview, during which the fraudsters would lure them into paying a deposit fund or applying for loans from financial institutions if they cannot afford the deposit; obtain their identity cards information or use their personal data for dubious purposes. Most of the victims are young school leavers or out-of-job young people. Fraudsters usually prey on their eagerness to get a job or make a fast buck by offering "lucrative" jobs. Jobseekers should be wary of strangers, especially those offering "well paid" job of modelling. In applying for a job online, a jobseeker should find out the employer's background and business, as well as the nature of the job advertised. A jobseeker should not sign any contract without any knowledge of the content, and never pay any fee before successfully securing the job. For more information and advice on employment and modelling fraud, surf RTHK's website at www.rthk.org.hk for the episode of "Decoding Commercial Crimes" on the Police Magazine TV programme. The next topic of the "Decoding Commercial Crimes" series is "Loco London Gold Fraud". After its completion on Jade Channel on September 15, five episodes of the series will be run on three English channels, with the first episode to be screened on Pearl Channel from 7.20 pm to 7.25 pm on September 29, and to be repeated on World Channel and Hong Kong Broadband. The five episodes will be run on five consecutive Saturdays until October 27. |
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