The information is asymmetrical here in most cases; Arise knows exactly how it works while presenting it as something else. A quick search on Google for Arise Call Center and the first three pages are lacking of any critical articles on Arise and some Glassdoor/SEO-spam blogs fake-answering the "scam" question.
You could expect this on basically any tech job aggregator posting aggregator site or even most companies' own postings. The only big giveaway that something is off about it is the last line:
> *This is not an offer of employment. It is an opportunity to enter into a business-to-business relationship with Arise®.*
If a person is fortunate enough to see that and check the FAQ [0], hopefully they realize how much of a mess this is and that you're basically paying Arise to maybe get paid by someone else, but how you get paid is up to you and might as well be a mystery.
But for those who don't check that and are in desperate need, yeah, I can easily see how Arise at face value looks perfect and desperation goggles hide the flaws:
- Site looks very normal and legit
- The work it discusses is shit call-center work that no one wants to do so there's likely lots of openings for someone who really needs money
- No training needed, you will be trained so a bad job history/no job history isn't a problem
- Criminal records don't seem to matter so if you had issues in the past, it's no big deal
- Work at home so no need to worry about commute/office hours
- The site is "up front" about you needing to pursue opportunities, so that makes it more "honest" and trustworthy
It's a very nice blend of honesty mixed in with the misdirection that likely its enough to get many people to pay the initial fees, maybe for a training or two, and even do a few hours of work for basically free during a high volume period. Arise pays pennies for the work, gets $$$ from the companies for getting the workers, and ropes in tons of cash from the agents. It looks and feels like a normal employment offer to get enough money out of a person to justify the efforts, and then the person is saddled with reality that they don't have a job, they basically paid for the opportunity to pay to get a few $$$ at awful rates.
It's a gross and exploitative company. I think our ire should be focused on that part instead of people who don't realize it's a scam.
And looking at an actual posting on Arise, it looks quite legit: https://www.ariseworkfromhome.com/opportunity/remote-custome...
You could expect this on basically any tech job aggregator posting aggregator site or even most companies' own postings. The only big giveaway that something is off about it is the last line:
> *This is not an offer of employment. It is an opportunity to enter into a business-to-business relationship with Arise®.*
If a person is fortunate enough to see that and check the FAQ [0], hopefully they realize how much of a mess this is and that you're basically paying Arise to maybe get paid by someone else, but how you get paid is up to you and might as well be a mystery.
But for those who don't check that and are in desperate need, yeah, I can easily see how Arise at face value looks perfect and desperation goggles hide the flaws:
- Site looks very normal and legit
- The work it discusses is shit call-center work that no one wants to do so there's likely lots of openings for someone who really needs money
- No training needed, you will be trained so a bad job history/no job history isn't a problem
- Criminal records don't seem to matter so if you had issues in the past, it's no big deal
- Work at home so no need to worry about commute/office hours
- The site is "up front" about you needing to pursue opportunities, so that makes it more "honest" and trustworthy
It's a very nice blend of honesty mixed in with the misdirection that likely its enough to get many people to pay the initial fees, maybe for a training or two, and even do a few hours of work for basically free during a high volume period. Arise pays pennies for the work, gets $$$ from the companies for getting the workers, and ropes in tons of cash from the agents. It looks and feels like a normal employment offer to get enough money out of a person to justify the efforts, and then the person is saddled with reality that they don't have a job, they basically paid for the opportunity to pay to get a few $$$ at awful rates.
It's a gross and exploitative company. I think our ire should be focused on that part instead of people who don't realize it's a scam.
[0] - https://www.ariseworkfromhome.com/faq/faqs/