The Judiciary Police (PJ) urged the public on Sunday in a statement to remain vigilant against suspicious text messages about recruitment information.
The statement noted that the Judiciary Police were recently informed about the issue by a resident who had received a text message from a purported staff member of a large chain supermarket, claiming to be able to provide a flexible part-time job which could be done online. The statement added that “the supermarket staff” also sent a website link and a social media contact with the text message.
According to the statement, “the supermarket staff” then instructed the resident to send a screenshot of an invitation code, which was sent along with the text message, back to the “staff”, while asking for the resident’s bank account details.
The statement underlined that it was a common “click farm” scam, in which fraudsters would change the script slightly and use the terms “easy jobs”, “no work experience needed”, and “best salaries” to attract residents to provide their personal data, for them subsequently to lose money.
According to Wikipedia, a “click farm” is a form of click fraud, where a large group of low-paid workers are hired to click on paid advertising links for the click fraudster (aka click farm master or click farmer).
Since there have been a number of recent cases in Macau involving “click farms”, in which the victims lost money, the Judiciary Police urged residents to be wary of such scams, adding that they should not click on any unknown website link or provide their personal data. PJ officers also urged residents not to pay and transfer money to strangers.
This poster provided by the Judiciary Police (PJ) on Sunday warns the public to be wary of suspicious recruitment text messages.
