Scammers are preying on people's job market fears

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It's easy to read a text offering what is clearly a fake job and think, "Who in the world would fall for this?" Of course, Temu or Target isn't going to send me an unsolicited message with a too-good-to-be-true employment offer out of the blue. Except scammers don't do things that don't work — so while it may seem obvious to you, there are people who absolutely fall for these tricks, and no one is immune.

Scam texts have exploded in recent years (which I probably don't have to tell you ...