Job seekers, beware of the pitfalls of illusory offers

In several big cities, including Beijing, a rather "creative" but vicious fraud has been targeting young female job seekers.

The fraudsters upload the name of a non-existent company on job-seeking websites, giving some details about it and saying it has vacancies for high-paying jobs. When a young female job seeker submits her resume to the company, they call her for an interview, which is programmed in a way that she emerges successful. But before signing the labor contract, they tell her she needs "a little image promotion", for which she requires a plastic surgery. And then they direct her to the contracted hospital.

The plastic surgery costs between 80,000 yuan ($11,780) and hundreds of thousands of yuan. The victim is cheated into signing a loan contract to pay for the surgery that they promise will be reimbursed by the "company" later.