Scams involving bogus job offers are becoming more and more common. To see what happens to victims of them, I answered a scam job text and tried to actually get the job. Here's what happened.

According to the Federal Trade Commission, you shouldn’t respond to these texts or click on any links on them—the smart thing to do is to block these numbers and get on with your day. But I wanted to see what happens to people who follow through and actually try to get the job, so I answered a scam text, and it led me down a surprisingly long road that included bogus online piecework, a discussion of the nature of labor itself, and repeated requests for $33.