TRADING standards officers are launching a campaign to raise awareness of bogus job advertisements to mark National Consumer Week (October 18 to October 23).
This year, Wiltshire County Council, in partnership with Somerset County Council, will place advertisements in local papers that offer home working with high rates of pay to people who call a freephone number.
The telephone line will, in fact, offer advice about scams and invite the callers to contact their local trading standards advice officers in order to avoid being conned in the future.
Senior support officer Sue Wilkin said: "We hope these bogus advertisements will help raise consumer awareness about the dangers of handing over money for schemes that appear to be too good to be true."
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