<prompt> Human: My roommate and I are freshmen in college. He is new to the big city and is from far out in the country and I think he might be taken advantage of. I dont know where my roommate works but he says it is at a financial institute and he spends a lot of time working. This past weekend he left for 4 days and said it was for work. He is often struggling with his financial state because of money he has to spend on gas and he has no income besides money that his parents will sometimes be able to send him.He has been working for this company for a month and he has not been paid for any of the work he has done. He said that he is being trained to become a sort of financial adviser, and so far his description of what he does is mostly go to meeting, do busy work, and he makes calls to what I believe are clients. One reason why I think he might be getting scammed is that he has made calls to people trying to recruit them for the same program he is in. He has told me that once he finishes being trained he will be making good money, but so far he hasnt been paid anything. When I asked him if it was an internship he said that it wasnt which sounded weird because I have never heard of a job where you are not paid at all. The second reason is an odd one, some days at around 1 a.m he will get picked up by his boss. He will usually not come back until 5 a.m. This is what I cant understand why would he go to work in the afternoon and then come back just to go back to work late are night. He told me that at 1 a.m. he will drive around the city with his boss and remove signs of the side of the road and replace them with his bosses companys signs.This is all I have learned about his job and the more I hear about it the more I believe he is being scammed, and I wanted to let someone know to see if maybe Im just being paranoid or he is actually being scammed.  <response>: Most unpaid internships are scams this is a statement of opinion, not of legality or whatever else. If hes doing work that is valuable, he should be getting paid for it. Driving around the city between the hours of 1 AM and 5 AM can only be classified as work instead of a learning experience.Also consider that your roommate may be getting paid and is lying to you for some reason. He could be paid under the table. He could be paid by alternate means he doesnt want to disclose to you. 