Effect of Online Job Scams on Trust and Dependence on Digital Platform

Abstract

The paper has examined the impacts of internet job (employment) frauds upon the trust and dependence of the population on internet jobs. The data collection technique through a quantitative analysis was a cross-sectional online study that used an online questionnaire to capture the views of online users who had experienced online job adverts. In order to provide a wide inclusion in the poll, it was posted on email mailing lists, professional networks, and social media. The adult internet users of a different demographic profile formed the target audience and 284 were randomly selected to form as a wide sample as possible.

The data gathering involved issues with online employment fraud experience on the part of the participants and their perceived attitudes and reliance upon the online platforms. The research presented used survey data and analyzed it through correlation and descriptive statistics as well as the SPSS analysis software. The results of this paper enabled diversification of the meaning of the influence of online job scams, including the considerations affecting the effect of user trusts and dependability to such online emerging platforms about the similarities of job scams that promoted the knowledge linked with the impacts of the essence of job scams on the job market.