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Phony job left mom out nearly $3,000

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People hoping to make extra money during the holidays are finding out the job they landed isn’t going to pay. In a time when more people are looking for work-from-home positions, one job opportunity seemed like the real deal. One mom wanted to share her story in hopes of helping others. KPRC 2 Investigates explains how these potential employees are being tricked.

“I’ve got two kids at home. So it was just it was more feasible for me,” says single mom Lacey Calder.

Calder was surprised to have a company reach out to her on the job site Indeed.

KPRC 2 Investigates phony job causes mom to lose nearly $3,000 and get kicked out of her home. (Copyright 2021 by KPRC Click2Houston – All rights reserved.)

“They told me, you know, $2,200 a month plus $50 a package that you send out successfully,” said Calder.

The job with Satori Parcel, LLC was simple. Calder says all she was told was she had reship products sent to her home. Just days after signing up, the packages started arriving to her home.

“I got $1,000 computer like seven GoPros, eight, nine and 10, 11 kitchen sinks. It was just random things,” she said.

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The company’s official-looking portal included training and a dashboard to track her work. This was also the location where Lacey uploaded all of her private information including W2 forms, her driver’s license and Social Security card.

“They had a dashboard that we would sign on to and it would stay the packages, and then we’d accept it. We’d get it sent to our home. We checked, make sure it was good. package it up and take it back with the label. We had like, less than 24 hours to do it,” said Calder.

KPRC 2 Investigates phony job website. Company has interactive dashboard, makes employees feel like it’s the real deal. (Copyright 2021 by KPRC Click2Houston – All rights reserved.)

Calder needed the money to pay rent, so she quickly got to work. But when payday came she says all communication stopped.

“All of a sudden, I couldn’t get into my dashboard and they didn’t answer the phones, or email me back,” said Calder.

A recent alert from the Better Business Bureau warns job seekers about Satori Parcel. The BBB suspects the victims are used to traffic stolen…

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Mining firms’ award underscores job security

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Hinatuan Mining Corp. (HMC) and Taganito Mining Corp. (TMC) were recently named Regional Winners in the 2021 Search for Outstanding Labor-Management Cooperation Program, the sister firms under Nickel Asia Corp. (NAC) said in a statement.

They are now contenders for the National LMC Competition, the awardees of which will be announced this December.

The award is given by the National Conciliation and Mediation Board (NCMB) for Outstanding Labor-Management Cooperation (LMC) and Grievance Machinery (GM) for Industrial Peace in the regional level.

NAC is the Philippine’s largest producer of lateritic nickel ore and one of the largest in the world. Its operations are multiple winners of the Presidential Mineral Industry Environment Award (PMIEA), the highest recognition for environmental excellence in mining in the country.

NCMB honored HMC and TMC, subsidiaries of NAC, for exemplary dedication, support and determination in sustaining harmonious labor-management relations in the workplace.

Policarpo O. Asilo, President of Hinatuan Mining Labor Union-National Federation of Labor Unions-Kilusang Mayo Uno (HIMLU-NAFLU-KMU), shared the excellent relationship HMC has with its Labor Union. 

“The Union and HMC management maintain a good and harmonious relationship by building trust and respect, with open table discussions in making decisions,” Asilo said.

Pedro D. Urbiztondo, TMC Labor Union president, said the award is “proof of the unity and harmony between management and labor union.”

“Through the LMC, programs and activities, and assistance are extended to employees as well as residents of neighboring communities,” he added 

With the theme “Responsiveness and Resilience in Times of Disruption”, the 2021 Search for Outstanding LMC is a special edition, recognizing organizations that have remained focused and true to the very essence of cooperation and partnership, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

This recognition highlights the commitment of NAC’s Human Resources team to job security most especially during crises. 

The outbreak of COVID-19 has had a negative impact in economies and employment across the globe and for a company to be able…

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Victim of 0 million cyber attack offers its hacker a job as chief security adviser

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About a week after a hacker stole $610 million from PolyNetwork in what was likely the biggest heist in the history of so-called decentralized finance, the victim has offered its attacker a job.

The hacker claimed the attack against the PolyNetwork platform – which lets users swap tokens across multiple blockchains – was an act of “hacking for good” to “save the project.”

The attacker has since promised to return the money and so far delivered about half of it.

PolyNetwork has responded by lavishing praise on the hacker, who it dubbed “Mr. White Hat,” a term used to describe “ethical” hackers who find vulnerabilities in computer networks and alert companies and organizations to fix them.

On Tuesday, in an act of gratitude or perhaps exasperation, PolyNetwork offered Mr. White Hat a job as “Chief Security Adviser.”

The identify of the hacker isn’t yet known, nor is it clear if Mr. White Hat is a single individual or a group of attackers.

“To extend our thanks and encourage Mr. White Hat to continue contributing to security advancement in the blockchain world together with PolyNetwork, we cordially invite Mr. White Hat to be the Chief Security Adviser of PolyNetwork,” the company said in a statement.

“Again, it is important to reiterate that PolyNetwork has no intention of holding Mr. White Hat legally responsible, as we are confident that Mr. White Hat will promptly return full control of the assets to PolyNetwork and its users.”

In the meantime, PolyNetwork is still struggling to get all of its clients’ money back. After returning half of the network’s assets, the hacker deposited the rest – around $235 million – into a joint account that is protected by two keys needed to unlock the funds. One of the keys was given to PolyNetwork, and the hacker has kept the other.

PolyNetwork has been pleading with Mr. White Hat to turn in his key so the funds could be accessed ever since. The hacker has yet to do so, despite the job offer and another offer that would allow the hacker to keep $500,000 of the funds.

The hacker’s behavior has stumped experts, who’ve been trying to trace the funds since they were initially stolen.

“There have been…

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The dichotomy in India’s job market

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He is on a hiring spree. “We have at least eight positions to fill. We just can’t find people,” he says.

Earlier, open positions would get filled in about 2-3 months. Now, it easily takes 6-8 months. And at times, even that isn’t enough. He has been looking for a senior technical architect since January and is yet to find one. Earlier, mid-level developers (with 3-4 years of experience) could easily be hired in India for an annual salary of about ₹17 lakh. Now, Agarwal can’t get them even for ₹25 lakh. Multinational corporations (MNCs) and well-funded firms are in fact willing to offer even ₹50 lakh. “How can I ever compete with that?” he says.

Remote hiring is opening up a new battlefront in this talent war. Agarwal says now his employees are getting poached by companies from the US with fat pay packets. Agarwal is now re-configuring his hiring strategy. He has removed both the salary and the location filters on the job portal listing to widen the pool of candidates. He is also running monthly “hackathons” to penetrate deeper within that community of cyber security nerds while looking for fresh talent in tier-2 and tier-3 cities. More recently, in a first, he hired someone in Bangladesh. Agarwal’s hiring challenges represent just one side of India’s unfolding job market story though.

Living under the same roof, Agarwal’s father inhabits a completely different world. Until March last year, Agarwal senior was running a successful silverware manufacturing unit in Gujarat. But amid lockdowns, his factory was shut down, business was ravaged, and he had to lay off all the staff. With the future looking bleak amid recurring covid-19 waves, Agarwal senior has moved to Bengaluru to be with his son. “Now, we are thinking of shutting down my dad’s factory altogether,” he says. Agarwal’s home is a microcosm of the dichotomy that is playing out in India’s job market today.

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Ask Washington-based Nitesh Agrawal, founder of Dive—a startup that helps companies build their remote culture. For his India team, he was in the process of hiring a new developer with a three-year…

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