This week on the perfect scam.

The next Monday when we had our Monday morning meeting,

she basically said, hey guys, I'm sure you're all wondering,

you know, where your money is. And so from there it was like, well, it should be, it should be in your account

by Friday and then, you know, that turned into next week and then that turned it and it should be in there by

Thanksgiving and then it was like okay you should have it by December 1st.

For decades American workers and employers had dabbled with the idea of telecommuting, working from home, but only a tiny fraction of workplaces really allowed it. Then the pandemic hit. The world was plunged

into a real-time experiment in remote work and, despite an awful lot of ups and downs and zooming around, it appears working from home is now here to stay.

McKinsey recently found that a stunning 58% of U.S. workers had the chance to work from home at least one day a week in

2022 and virtually everyone offered the opportunity to do it, took it.

Can't beat the commute.

But criminals have paid close attention to this trend too.

Work-at-home jobs have always been fought with the potential for fraud. Fake job listings, even fake companies

are easy to create when the job is virtual. Meanwhile, people who are unemployed and job hunting

are particularly vulnerable. So today we're going to talk

about all the various work-from-home scams that have popped up during the past

couple of years. First we'll meet a woman who thought she'd found her dream job advocating for women's

empowerment until her paychecks never came.

And then we'll talk to an expert who would tell you just what job listings to avoid and even what phrases to look for so you can protect yourself.

When our story begins, if I understand correctly, you were a teacher, right?

Yes, I was teaching high school. Oh my God, you were teaching high school.

Yes.

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