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How to protect against frauds while Looking for job/new business proposals

At times we all look for a change in job or want to explore some business proposal, while doing the same, we also need to protect ourselves against frauds. There could be various red flags, for now below are three which one should look out for, to protect against frauds: 1- Advance payment - Such schemes are aptly called “Advance fee scams” and there are multiple variants, which range from offers of “work from job/business”, “jobs in foreign country”, “balance left in account of a distant relative”, “someone who wants to help people by making donations/charity”, “lottery prizes”.Whatever be the variant/modus operandi, one thing is definite that they want advance payment before providing you the product/service/job/business etc. 2- Unsolicited jobs/business partnership - In the times where for any job there are hundreds of applicants and startups/existing businesses chase venture funds, it’s strange when one gets a “too good to be true” job/investment proposal without even ap