Work-from-home packing, assembly or review job with a starter kit fee
Home-based work is offered, but you must buy a starter kit or pay a registration fee, and the work or payment never comes.
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How it works
- An ad on social media or in a WhatsApp group offers easy home work, such as packing pens, making candles, assembling items or writing reviews, for Rs 1,000 or more a day.
- To start, you must pay a registration fee or buy a starter kit of material, with a promise that the company will buy back everything you make.
- The kit is poor or never comes, your finished work is rejected for small "quality" faults, and the company stops replying.
What it looks like
Example messages. Numbers and links are masked.
Work from home! Pen packing job, earn Rs 15,000 to Rs 30,000 per month. Housewives and students welcome. Registration only Rs 1,500. WhatsApp 98XXXXXX10.
Madam, your kit is ready for dispatch. Please pay Rs 3,200 for material and security deposit. Company will buy back all finished pieces.
Red flags
- You pay before you earn anything
- Earnings far too high for simple work
- A buy-back promise with no written contract
- Only a WhatsApp number, no office address
- Finished work rejected for small faults
The one question to ask
Why would a real employer ask you to pay them before you start work?
Already paid or shared details?
Call 1930 at once: in the first hour the money can often still be frozen before it moves on. Then call your bank on the number printed on your card, and file a complaint at cybercrime.gov.in with screenshots of every message and payment.
1930 · cybercrime.gov.in
Also seen as
- Paid typing, data entry or form-filling jobs
- Hotel or product review tasks that ask for a deposit
- Handmade craft kits with a buy-back promise