Fake Job Offers and Task Scams: What Teens Need to Know

Fake jobs promise easy money from home: liking videos, rating products, or 'tasks'. Then comes a starter kit fee, or payments to unlock bigger tasks. The money never comes back.

Some fake jobs ask teens to receive money into their account and send it on. That isn't a job: it's money laundering, and it can have serious consequences.

Red flags: hired without an interview, pay that's too high for the work, requests for payment, ID or bank details up front.

Search the company name with the word 'scam', and talk to a trusted adult before saying yes.

The rule from the episode: a real job never asks you to pay.