Re: Educational level without brains
That's a very easy and wrong explanation. No, it doesn't come down to greed, any more than you wanting to be paid does. Students want job experience, and in many cases, it's hard to get because they don't yet have the ability to write a lot on their CV. Getting a job offer is something they're trying for all the time, so the scam starts by playing on that emotion. In these cases, the students aren't expecting free money; they're expecting that a company or organization wants work done and thinks they're qualified to do it. The student, at this point, is perfectly willing to provide value and expects to do so in return for this paycheck.
As I've established, greed isn't required to fall for the fake job offer. How about the fake check that comes later? It's still not greed. A greedy student would want to cash the check and either not give the company anything or find out how to get more checks. A student who doesn't know how these things work would want to follow instructions, assuming their weirdness sensor hasn't gone off yet. We know that a company won't start off this way, but a student with no real job experience except basic jobs doesn't. After all, while we wouldn't expect to be given a check then asked to send money on, there are companies that ask people to pay for expenses and submit an expense report to have the money returned to them, and that's perfectly normal. It takes a bit of credulity and a lack of experience. Greed would only hamper the process. I think you're jumping to blame the victim is not only needlessly disparaging to them but also gets the facts wrong.
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