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Job scam
With budgets tight so for many, the promise of extra cash every month for simple jobs you can do from your sofa might sound attractive. But presenter Gordon Smart, with The Open University, find out how it could be a scam, meeting one man who lost over £60,000. We're sharing the psychological techniques fraudsters use to draw people in and why emojis in messages could be a warning sign.
To watch this with subtitles, go to BBC iPlayer and search for Morning Live from 27/11/24.
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