“Your resume has been approved”: beware of scammers if you receive this text

“Hello, your resume has been approved by our company…”, “Your work experience and resume have been recommended by several recruitment agencies…” These messages you may have been receiving on your phone over the past few weeks are in no way related to work. offers. In fact, this is a well-thought-out scam that is gaining momentum.

By following the links in these posts, you are offered the opportunity to work from home for a daily salary that can range from 100 to 1000 euros. These SMS messages are always written the same way: They first ask you to complete a task, such as submitting a review, making an online recommendation, or rating a product. In order to get your salary back for this task later, you have to give the money.

“We’ve seen this a few times recently. People are cheated out of several thousand euros because they never get their money back: they are always asked for more to get the jackpot. We tend to think that we are involved in organized crime,” comments Jean-Jacques Latour, a cybersecurity expert at the government website Cybermalveillance.gouv.fr.

“Lost money is irrecoverable”

This scam, very popular in the US, has now reached France, but is not related to the recent France Travail hack. To avoid being deceived, Jean-Jacques Latour recommends that you first of all be wary of any unwanted job offer: “A job that falls from the sky, where you can sit at home and earn a lot of money, must be a wolf.” because otherwise everyone would do it, it’s too good to be true. »

“Lost money is non-refundable, there is never a solution, but you need to file a complaint to hope to find the culprits. Often victims do not do this, and without a complaint there will be no investigation and other people will be deceived,” the expert continues. It’s a different option, he said, “from what we’ve seen so far because this time we’re actually forcing the victims to complete the task. »