Police lures people with dubious job offers on eBay classifieds – for good reason

The police have published dubious job offers on eBay classifieds. There, work from home and an hourly wage of 18 euros are tempting – but the jobs don’t even exist. It is a new campaign designed to protect against rip-offs.

Police place tempting offers on eBay classifieds

Together with eBay classifieds, the police crime prevention of the federal states and the federal government has launched a new campaign. In several German cities, job seekers are currently seeing tempting offers on the advertising portal. There will promised an easy job in the home office, which brings in 18 euros an hour. In the ads themselves, however, information about the campaign is provided at the end. Users should be particularly careful with lure offers like these.

The police explain that scammers are behind such job advertisementswho target personal data and more. If users apply, then a dream job with flexible working hours is by no means tempting. Instead, applicants should open a new bank account “for test purposes” or “for verification” or even provide their own. Criminals then use the account for their own schemes. Identity theft cases occur, in which job seekers become victims again.

There are also dangers lurking on the phone, as our video shows:

eBay Classifieds: According to the police, bait offers were successful

A week after publication of the decoy ads, the police published an interim conclusion. Accordingly, the lure offers have received more than 5,000 views. About 200 users have saved them in their watch list, over 100 have asked for details about the job (source: Police Crime Prevention).

According to Harald Schmidt, Managing Director of the State and Federal Police Crime Prevention Job seekers should not be blinded: “The more tempting an offer is, the more suspicious one should be”. Accounts should never be opened on behalf of third parties. Suspicious ads can easily be reported on eBay Classifieds.