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Poster

A Job Should Never Cost You Money

For job clubs and career rooms, where the people reading it can least afford to lose money.

For
Workforce and job seekers, Universities, Newcomer communities, All partners
Status
Reviewed
Version
2026-09-01

Drawing the poster…

What the poster says, as text

A job should never cost you money.

If you have to pay to start work, it is not work.

A real employer will not

  • Charge you for equipment or training
  • Send a check and ask you to forward part
  • Hire you over text without ever speaking
  • Want bank details before a written offer

Look the company up yourself and call their listed number. Bring the message to us and we will look together.

Your organization

Fill these in and they appear on the poster straight away, and on everything else you use here. Leave them blank and the poster prints with an empty box to write in.

Your logo stays on your own computer. It is not sent to us or to anyone else.

A large picture file you can print, email to a print shop, or put on a screen.

Or take the plain version

PDFImagewith an empty box to write in

Why the check trick works

A check can show up in a bank balance days before the bank finds out it is fake. People send the money on in good faith, and then the bank takes back the full amount.

If anyone asks you to deposit a check and forward part of it, that is the scam, every time, with no exceptions.

Notes for whoever prints this

  • Add the name of a staff member people can bring a job offer to.
  • The last line is the important one: make it easy to ask, and people will ask before they pay.

Before you distribute this

  • Use it: Career centers, job clubs, campus job boards, and workforce programs.
  • Replace every bracketed placeholder with your organization's own details.
  • Open every web address yourself before printing it.
  • Current warnings live at watchout.report. Check the date on anything time-sensitive.
Use your browser's print dialog to save this as a PDF.

Cybersecurity Reach Foundation · cybersecurityreach.org · Current warnings: watchout.report

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