The Federal Trade Commission is flagging a fast-spreading text message scheme in which scammers pose as recruiters, dangle ...

Millions of Americans are receiving text messages that promise easy remote work and generous pay for jobs they never applied ...

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You get a text message. It says Amazon is hiring. The pay sounds great. The work is easy. It feels like a lucky break. Then you read it again. That is when things start to feel off, and you realize it ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. INDIANAPOLIS — This is a time of year when a lot of people take on extra part-time jobs to make extra money for the holidays.

Your phone might be inundated with texts offering you a job these days. However, the Federal Trade Commission says many of those job offers aren't from legitimate companies — they are from scammers.

Millions have already been lost to text job scams—and the fraud, the FTC warns, is rising. Consumers reported $14.8 million in losses in 2023, which soared to $61.2 million in 2024. Experts say people ...