Should i take my coworker up on his job offer?

My coworker recently told me he moonlights doing an online job while working our normal job. I asked him what he does and he said that it’s hard to explain but there’s a powerpoint that explains when i get hired. He said it’s all legal and we get paid $10 an hour and pay goes out every week. He showed me he’s made an extra $250 this week on an excel spreadsheet. I think it sounds like a great opportunity/s

Anyway what flavor of scam do you think this guy is part of? I’m thinking mlm because he’s trying to bring others into the fold, but I heard him tell someone else theres a fee to join, and that screams pyramid scheme.

all-knight-party,
all-knight-party avatar

He'll only tell you what the job duties are AFTER you're hired and YOU have to pay to be hired? For $10/hr? Even if that wasn't a straight up scam I wouldn't invest time, money, and effort into signing up and doing onboarding if I didn't know what the hell I was doing.

Hard to say exactly what's going on there with that little info, though.

sparky678348,

Exactly we need much more to go on

GarbageShoot,

Absolutely an MLM or similar bullshit

Squirrel,
@Squirrel@thelemmy.club avatar

If there’s a fee to join, it’s a scam. You don’t pay for your job.

mayo_cider,
@mayo_cider@hexbear.net avatar

I’d be more inclined to join if they started with “it’s a bit illegal”

DrQuint,

it’s all legal

Ultra gigantic red flag.

jasparagus,

For sure. I think it violates Grice’s maxim of quantity - I’ve never seen a legitimate job posting where they felt the need to tell me how legal the job is. That call-out being in there is decidedly worrisome haha.

An entertaining video on the maxims from Tom Scott: youtu.be/IJEaMtNN_dM?si=GxmkO8Is3B9EaibZ

OneWomanCreamTeam,

If he has to explain that it’s legal, and refuses to tell you what it is until you get hired, it’s a scam. Probably an MLM he got sucked into.

zerbey,

Sounds like a scam, but hey hear him out it may be legit. Don’t draft that resignation letter just yet. I can tell you, with almost complete certainty, that it’s an MLM scheme and you should just walk away.

vinceman,

I once had a customer tell “I know it sounds like a pyramid scheme, but it’s not” which all but confirms something is a pyramid scheme. I’m gonna assume “it’s definitely legal” is actually code for it’s completely illegal.

averagedrunk,

It’s a reverse funnel system.

HellAwaits,

If someone has to say it’s all legal, do you honestly think that isn’t a red flag?

peopleproblems,

“it’s all legal” is usually followed by “trust me bro” and then you get to learn about RICO

AlligatorBlizzard,

The fee to join makes this absolutely a scam, but everything else reminds me of trying to explain my work for Appen. They do extremely strict NDAs and pay similarly, it’s legit but it also kinda sucks, or at least all the projects I was on sucked.

AcesFullOfKings,

but it’s totally legal

🚩🚩🚩

PP_BOY_,
@PP_BOY_@lemmy.world avatar

100% a scam and your coworker is either naive and needs someone to tell him that too or is an asshole who’s trying to get out of the hole he’s put himself in by recruiting other people

iforgotmyinstance,

It’s a scam.

speaker_hat,

Join fee + weird recruiting = Fonzie scheme.

gnutrino,

Fonzie scheme.

Ayyy!

Ayy

xtremeownage,

He said it’s all legal

I mean, if I were trying to recruit people into an illegal pyramid scheme, that is what I would say too.

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