What Is Missing From This "Employment" Advertisement?

I quote in full, the text on a leaflet I picked up in a local shop. The stack of them has been there for weeks now.

Printed on a single side of a glossy A5 sheet, with a blue background and holiday-theme images, all of the words, in capitals as used on the leaflet, are:

WANT REAL FREEDOM?

BUILD A PASSIVE INCOME

Work from anywhere - Fully remote.
Flexible freedom.
Discounted holidays and travel.
ABTA and ATOL Protected.
All training provided
Work your own hours and days.
Build a passive income.
The world's biggest work from home travel agency.
Over 35 years in business.
Multi award winning company.
Voted best work from home business 2025

Join the thousands of successful agents globally who have achieved real freedom.

CONTACT US TODAY! Call or Text 07359......

My only omission is the rest of the number.

Spot the flaws.....

[Edited to correct my typing errors.]

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Ohplease47 · F

The job isnt available.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Ohplease47 Possibly, but someone had to pay for a lot of leaflets to be printed, and I'd think that a bit too speculative for out-and-out fraudsters.

Mindfulness

When I have an unknown number, I save it in my contacts then go to WhatsApp, click new message, find the contact and see if I know the WhatsApp profile pick.
It doesn't always work, but I have had occasional success identifying callers.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

If you actually have a domain name for the place it "might" be possible to figure out either the name of the company or the owner of the website.

It really depends if they hid it or not. Yet that as well costs a bit more for them to hide that information. I suspect they are on a low budget though and took the cheapest host and domain registration for the website. Not really thinking about it.

FreddieUK · 70-79, M

Who is/are 'us'? The term 'passive income' is not defined and seems to contradict the use of the word 'work' in the phrase ending 'from home'. ABTA and ATOL protect holidays not travel agents' work life.

The use of a mobile number with no legal statement as to who is publishing this is suspicious.

Apart from that, I'm sure it's not a scam harvesting phone numbers. 😏

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ElwoodBlues · M

@ArishMell Sounds like it couldt be a "multi-level-marketing" scheme, where most of your income would come from convincing others to join the scheme.

FreddieUK · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues That would be called a 'pyramid scheme' in the UK and is illegal.

SumKindaMunster · 56-60, M

@ArishMell This:

I tried to trace the phone number but hit another fiddle. The web-site I found promises a free service (paid for, how?), displays a lot of fancy screen imagery to show it is searching for the number, then demands payment to send the details by e-post! I close it immediately

This is what it is for. To generate money sending people easily available information and charging them for it.

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