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Do your homework and don’t feel guilty about it. You’ve got to do what keeps you safe. Type the company’s name into a search engine and go to town. You should end up with a legitimate company home page. Other times you’ll find plenty of fraud alerts posted by very angry targets of the same scam. If a company’s website looks shady, it probably is. It might have a generic logo, no company history, or no contact information. Bookmark some handy sites for checking work experiences. Glassdoor is one such site where former employees of a company post descriptions of their jobs and rate the job experience. Your particular company may not have a lot of information available, but if it does, you can catch any sign of shady activity before you commit to a job offer. Go ahead and type the recruiter into your search engine. Some scammers pose as recruiters from legitimate companies. Jane Doe from wikiHow probably has a lot of information on the Internet. If you’re lucky, you’ll find a trail of information that leads to a profile on a legitimate company site. A real recruiter may also have professional profiles on LinkedIn or Facebook.  These profiles should be completely filled out with company-related information, such as job title and description, which you can reference with the company. Misspellings or an incorrect location are red flags. Real recruiters typically have a personal photo instead of a logo. Reverse image search the photo to make sure it isn’t stock or stolen. In the US, the Better Business Bureau is a great way to monitor the reputation of companies. A scam company may have negative reviews or not appear at all. A consumer affairs agency or the attorney general’s office may also help if you contact them. Check the Federal Trade Commission and National Fraud Information Center to learn about online work scams. Refer to similar agencies in your home state or company to get information on a company you distrust. Always reach out and contact the company supposedly offering you the job. Call the company and ask them if they know the recruiter and posted about the job you’re applying for. If Jane Doe tells you you can be the head of wikiHow’s baked beans department and wikiHow says they’ve never heard of either, it’s a scam. Most scams involve large amounts of money for little work or don’t make sense, so they’re easy to spot when you’re aware. Even when you can’t identify a scam, you may still feel uncertain. Trust your gut. It’ll save you more often than not. For example, medical billing is a popular scam. Busy doctors won’t send a random person someone’s medical information. You also won’t get paid to shop or get others to shop unless you are affiliated with legitimate companies like Amazon.
Research the company with a search engine. Look up company reviews. Research the recruiter. Refer to government legitimacy sites when you are unsure. Contact the company directly. Decide whether the job sounds too good to be true.