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Top 5 personal finance scams in India and how to stay safe from them

Don’t make any payments just because a stranger told you to. Verify the situation and the person’s …

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I was scammed out of $300K in a 3-month-long government impersonation scam

Over the course of 3 months, a 28-year-old woman was scammed out of over $300,000. When she realize…

Jane Zhang   


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Woman loses ₹54 lakh in work-from-home scam! Here's what it is and how to protect yourself

Job hunting is something that most of us do online, be it on social media or various online job por…

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Remote job scams are on the rise! How to stay safe?

Job scams were always around, but ever since the pandemic and lockdowns, remote job scams have beco…

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LinkedIn says it intercepts the 'majority' of scams on its site — but job hunters say it's not enough

LinkedIn rolled out verification tools last year to curb fraudulent posts on the platform. Job hunt…

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A crypto scam sank a Kansas bank and got its CEO sent to jail for 24 years

The CEO of a small Kansas was sentenced to 24 years in prison after getting caught in a crypto "pig…

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College students desperate for jobs are getting scammed online by criminals posing as tech recruiters

College students looking to join the workforce are being targeted by scammers offering attractive j…

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A personal finance TikToker claims unlimited PTO is the 'biggest scam.' Career experts say she has a point.

Unlimited vacation time has been a perk companies have offered to attract talent for a few years, b…

Lindsay Dodgson   


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I left my $130K job at Lyft and became a barista. Here's what it taught me.

Chris Jereza says leaving Lyft gave him time to figure out his values and direction, and found a st…

Jyoti Mann   


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ED raids Bengal Food Minister's house in alleged civic body scam

More than a dozen premises linked to Ghosh have been covered in the state including North 24 Pargan…

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A massive remote-work scam fooled 300 US companies into hiring North Koreans, prosecutors say

An Arizona woman aided North Koreans in find remote-work US jobs, funnelling their wages back to th…

Joshua Zitser   


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A millennial who's been applying to jobs for a year says he's encountered ghost jobs and scammers in his struggle to find a remote role

A Utah-based millennial was laid off from his tech job soon after he learned about a worrying healt…

Jacob Zinkula   


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Match Group CEO says he has empathy for victims of romance scams but 'things happen in life'

The CEO of Match Group — which is facing a lawsuit from the FTC — said the safety of users is the c…

Kenneth Niemeyer   


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I used bots to work for Instacart. You need one to make the job worthwhile.

One Instacart shopper says bots like Lucky and ShopperX have helped him get bigger orders, faster. …

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19,000 school job losers likely to be eligible recruits: Bengal SSC

The claim came in the aftermath of a judgment of a high court special bench on Monday scrappin…

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Don't be scammed by fake job listings

Some 14 million people are exposed to fictitious job postings every year. Here's advice from recrui…

Rebecca Knight,Rachel DuRose   


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I left the Bay Area and moved countries for a tech job — and I'm 100 times happier and less stressed now than I was in Silicon Valley

This woman left the Bay Area and moved to Poland with her husband. She ended up getting a tech job …

Robin Madell   


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Marc Andreessen says student loan forgiveness is a 'bailout.' Ben Horowitz thinks college is mostly 'a scam.'

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz spoke at length in a podcast about American higher education and s…

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Job switchers beware: Some high-paying, remote jobs are scams

The Better Business Bureau warned that scammers are posting fake jobs at top-tier companies like Am…

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What are ‘vishing scams’ that start with a Namaste and end with monetary losses

vishing is a type of phone scam where the fraudster takes advantage of human error by calling and a…