Tegucigalpa
The need for hondurans to obtain a job, whether inside or outside the country, makes them easy prey for fraud by scammers that assure them a I work in the United States.
A large number of citizens have reported being scammed by supposed recruitment companies that advertise on social networks, and that assure them employment in American companies and help with work visa procedures, but the reality is that they end up stealing their personal information. and your money.
How do they operate?
Once and people looking for a job enter your pages in Facebookthe alleged recruiters contact the victims and guarantee that they will find them a job according to what they are looking for or desire.
It only takes a few minutes after starting the conversation when they request photographs of the person’s national identification document, passport and resume.
Subsequently, they agree to a virtual interview, in which they ask him, among other things, his work qualities and his intentions to stay in the United States.
One or two days after the interview they confirm that they have been approved by a company; However, they do not give them further details of the supposed job or company that chooses them. Until then, scammers do not ask their victims for money.
It is until they send several documents to their emails, which supposedly would serve as “support for the interview before the American embassy” that they begin to ask for money.
When people go to the U.S. Embassy in Honduras they discover that they were victims of fraudsince the company to which they applied for the case employment does not exist.
