Work abroad
The agency was organized by four enterprising residents of Chisinau. It allegedly was looking for work in Italy, Greece, Portugal. Of course, the ladies did not send anyone anywhere, they just "collected" money. Law enforcement authorities learned about 15 victims of this fraud. But it is possible that there were many more. Each client "paid $ 300 for registration of a passport and a visa". No one received money back. At the same time, the "firm" lasted about a year, but it was not legally formalized.
The type of fraud associated with sending to work abroad has already become "classical." A huge number of our neighbors (residents of Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova) are victims of scams in Russia. For example, once on television in Belarus there was an advertisement, according to which builders and drivers were invited to work in Moscow. It was promised free housing, food and a salary of several hundred dollars a week. In rented apartments, telephone dispatchers barely had time to invite people for an interview. And in one day recruited workers come to the capital. Already on the territory of Russia, from all participants of the trip, they collect $ 100 for registration of necessary papers. Then, they are planted near the doors of one of the consulting firms for employment (its employees told visitors where they can be claimed, but did not guarantee anything). As a result, the Belarusians were simply deceived. Some have applied to the police, but nothing has been achieved. Although the identity of the scam is known, but he has already seized the money in Russia, and besides the promise to "help" with employment, it turns out that he did it.
Among the most popular methods of fraud, it is impossible not to include "Work abroad". Modern scammers do not promise newcomers to the golden mountains, but they work much more skillfully and cunningly in terms of the law.
And the simpletons became harder to find. Therefore, scammers traveled in search of victims in small towns, where the level of confidence is still quite high.
Newspapers of free announcements and today are full of such proposals: "Work abroad, a salary of $ 200 per week." But they are already accustomed to and know that such a promise lies at best - fraud (you lose several hundred rubles for making "necessary papers"), in the worst case abroad the victim can be sold into slavery.
Legal consultation
The State Duma of the Russian Federation tightened administrative responsibility for illegal activities in this sphere. Changes were made in the Code of Administrative Offenses, according to which intermediary organizations will have to pay a fine if they operate without a license or violate the conditions of the license for the employment of Russian citizens abroad.
Thus, the recruiting agency for work abroad, convicted of fraud, may be fined 300,000 rubles.
For those who commit larger scams, part 3 of Article 122 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Moldova "Fraud, causing great damage to the owner" provides for a fine of 150 minimum wages.
For the infliction of damage on a particularly large scale, they are punished under another article of the Criminal Code - 123/1 "Theft of the owner's property in especially large amounts". This article provides for punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of 10 to 25 years.
Fraud related to travel to other countries
All of us are looking forward to the summer holidays season to take a break from the tiresome working days. But there are people who expect this period with the completely opposite goal - to work. And their job is to provide us with a good rest. Unfortunately, among these people there are a lot of those who do not render services, but simply deprive trusting vacationers of the funds that were accumulated for rest sometimes not in one year. In other words, these are fraudsters operating in the field of tourism business.
Absolute majority of travel agencies are intermediaries who bought tours (tours) and sell them with a 20-30% wrap. At what in the course of cooperation with them, the client is often displeased with the services provided, as they often do not correspond to promises. This is just one way of cheating, and there can be a huge number of them. For example, this situation: an advertising agent on the beach offers tours around the neighborhood for 1 hour, half day, day. You are shown a bright advertising catalog, around people who already were and advise to go. You agree. The longer the development of the action can go according to two scenarios: either from you take the prepayment and disappear, or the trip will still take place, but the tour itself will be much worse than what was promised. Instead of a mountain river you will be shown a stream, and instead of chic sea fishing you can only sit with a fishing pole at the bay.
As experts note, schemes of actions of swindlers are not always designed for complete simplicity. They understand that the legal literacy of tourists is growing from year to year and tracing us around
