Paris Chief of Police Bob Hundley is warning Lamar County residents of a Facebook ‘Swap Shop’ job application scam after the department has received multiple reports of scams.
“Our complainant applied for the position, conducting the job interview over Google Hangout,” said Hundley.
Usual interview questions were answered and a job offer made, all online.
“Then the ‘company’ agent informed her that his company tries to help their employees with debt and bad credit and asked for all their accounts that were outstanding.”
The complainant gave a list of credit cards, but thankfully no account numbers.
They then received another message asking for photographs of the credit cards themselves.
“This is obviously a scam. The complainant reports that the company name was given as Appin, which is a real company, but probably not involved in this deal.”
The complainant also informed the department this afternoon of another very similar advertisement had surfaced on swap shop with a company of Novartis, which Hundley said is again is a real company.
“The internet is truly an efficient and super fast manner of doing business. Please research these offers fully before applying, and especially before giving up personal information. If the deal sounds too good to be true, it usually isn’t.”
