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Kim Komando Today

Work from home scams & how to spot real jobs

Kim Komando Today

WestStar Multimedia Entertainment, Inc

News, Tech News, Technology

4.8770 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

We all know people who have fallen for a scam of one kind or another — and work from home scams are some of the most convincing, and dangerous, ones out there. In this episode, Kim brings you the shocking details of real online job scams, red flags you should look out for and success stories of people who found the real thing and made big money.

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0:00.0

It's no exaggeration to say that COVID-19 has totally upended the global economy.

0:08.9

According to labor statistics, some 40 million U.S. jobs have been lost so far.

0:13.8

The unemployment rate?

0:15.1

Well, it's the worst since the Great Depression.

0:18.1

How about one more grim stat?

0:20.1

Just three sectors, leisure and hospitality,

0:23.3

education and health services, and retail trade accounted for about 60% of the total loss

0:28.4

in non-farm jobs. Well, how about some good news? Yes, you can work from home and you can

0:34.4

actually make some decent money. But since work from home scams are increasing, here's a podcast that I released not

0:41.1

too long ago that tells you how to spot the scams.

0:43.6

It's horrible to think that while so many people are hurting, the scammers, well, they

0:48.6

actually come out in full force.

0:50.3

So sit back and learn.

0:51.8

I don't want you to be one of their next victims.

0:59.8

Hey guys. In for Kim Commando. My name is Mike James. If we haven't met, I've been with Kim

1:04.7

for going on 17 years. And I'm looking forward to this podcast because it's all about

1:09.7

side hustle. And I do have a little

1:11.1

side hustle job. I do real estate on the side and have a couple of apartment buildings. At any

1:16.7

rate, if you've ever been kind of short on cash and wish you had a side hustle that could provide

1:20.7

for a little extra money without leaving your house, if you've ever wondered what it might be like,

1:25.2

if you didn't have to commute to work, nine to five job, and instead just open up your laptop from the comfort of your own couch in your pajamas.

1:33.0

Well, that might be a little bit of a stretch.

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