Many people are looking for part-time gig jobs, or side hustles. But there's a chance that offer is a scam: how to know.
After last year's"great resignation," many people who don't want to return to the office are looking for part-time work. But, scammers are now lurking everywhere, targeting all those people hoping to find a side hustle.
Julie Bright had just posted her resume online when she got an email inviting her to be a secret shopper evaluating stores."I opened up this card in the mail," she said,"and I remember seeing this cashier's check to Julie Bright, and it had instructions to be a wholesale secret shopper." "It tells me to go to Walgreens or CVS," she explained,"but said don't let the cashier know what I am doing, as far as the survey, or who I am."Bright was about to fall for one of many side hustle scams now targeting workers, according to Sherrod DeGrippo of Proofpoint Internet Security.