Illegal Recruiters have always been the scourge of honest overseas workers. They could be considered dregs of the society because they prey on people’s trust who bank on their promise that they can guarantee lucrative work overseas.

Honest people who have sometimes mortgaged property or accumulated debts in order to pay for processing fees, recruitment fees and a plane ticket in hopes of providing a better life for their families. While undertaking the ultimate sacrifice of experiencing loneliness and discrimination in a foreign land.
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Here’s some disturbing news from MSNBC news, Identity Theft scams masquerading as Work at Home Schemes Jobs in order to get a copy of your resume. Why would they need a copy of your resume?, so that they can use your personal information to steal your identity and use it to perform criminal acts.

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In this day and age of the Internet, online transacting has been both a God send and a curse. Because the ease with which we can purchase and sell our goods online has meant savings and cost reductions to both our time and money, but also gives an avenue for people to steal our credit information to transact without our knowledge. All that however can be prevented if we apply common sense and these tips.

Tips for Secure Online Transactions:
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Here’s a new scam being reported in the Metro. A card holder receives a call from somebody saying that their credit card limit has been increased, all they have to do is surrender their credit card (so that it can be replaced with a new one) to a banking representative that will visit them.

The almost-victim called up the bank to verify and found out that it wasn’t true. She went to the police instead and they were successfully able to en-trap the person. Found in the person of the messenger was a letter and identification card bearing the bank’s logo.
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Here’s a variant of the Dugo Dugo gang scam, but this time targeting relatives of OFW’s. It’s hard to believe that in this day and age that this scam still works, considering that it has been going on for years already and has been widely covered in mainstream media.

How this scam works is that a relative of an OFW(usually the wife) will be contacted via cellphone by somebody impersonating somebody from the Dept of Foreign Affairs then they will be told that their relative is in distress and needs some money. The relative is told intimate details about the OFW’s relative that they will be convinced to send cash to the scammers.
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