Job ads in Telegram that offer “futures work by signals” plus “arbitrage” are rarely employment. The usual script: open Binance or Bybit (often via their link), trade your own money on their calls, keep a “salary plus share of profits”, enjoy “minimal risk”. Losses stay with you. The signal seller collects subscriptions, referral kickbacks, or steers you onto a private “arbitrage platform” whose dashboard prints gains until withdrawal needs a tax or verification top-up.
Real arbitrage — buying where an asset is cheaper and selling where it is dearer — needs capital, speed, fees maths and often bots. It is dull, thin-margin work, not “deposit $500 and withdraw $50 a day risk-free”. Fake versions invent an in-house robot, demand API keys, or call your own deposit “working capital”. Proper employers do not ask you to bring the factory.
Checklist: random chat recruit, no company paperwork, urgency, guaranteed monthly percentages, and any request that you fund the role. Treat it as a trading or advance-fee scam, not a side hustle.
If you already deposited for a “trading job”, start at Get help. For recovery fee pitches, see Fake recovery.
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