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fromOpelika-Auburn News
1 week ago

How to spot a scam job offer before fall hiring picks up

Scam job offers often request money or personal information, appear too good to be true, and can be identified by common red flags.
Careers
fromPress of Atlantic City
1 week ago

How to spot a scam job offer before fall hiring picks up

Spot scam job offers by watching for requests for money or personal data, unrealistic pay or pressure, noncompany emails, and vague or unsolicited hiring contacts.
fromMiami Herald
1 week ago

How to spot a scam job offer before fall hiring picks up

PeopleFinders shares some tips to help you stay savvy if you're sending your resumes around this fall. First, What Is a Scam Job Offer? A scam job offer involves fraudsters (hiding behind a fake name) contacting job seekers and offering a fake position. They may claim to be hiring managers at real, legitimate companies. Their ultimate goal is usually to gain money or personal information, the latter of which they may auction off on the dark web.
Information security
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fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

There's a new, brutal scam in the labor market that's got job seekers down

Job seekers face growing financial risk from increasingly convincing employment scams enabled by generative AI and a desperate labor market.
US news
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

The job market is hell for us, and heaven for scammers

Scammers use LinkedIn and cheap AI tools to craft convincing fake job offers, stealing thousands from applicants and driving a sharp rise in employment-scam reports and losses.
Digital life
fromFuturism
1 month ago

What Actually Happens If You Sign Up for One of Those Scammy "Online Jobs" Is Pretty Fascinating

Job scam texts have risen significantly, manipulating the vulnerable with promises of easy, high-paying work.
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fromNewsday
1 month ago

Long Island job scams: How to spot fake offers

Job scams have significantly increased, especially due to the rise of remote work, leading to substantial financial losses for victims.
#fraud
Tech industry
fromFortune
2 months ago

An engineer was caught secretly working for multiple Silicon Valley startups at once

Soham Parekh secretly held multiple tech jobs, leading to accusations of scamming startups in Silicon Valley.
Remote teams
fromBored Panda
4 months ago

Company Steals Interviewee's Work, Candidate Exposes Them Instead Of Letting It Slide

Job seekers may be exploited through unpaid assessment tasks during hiring.
The rise in remote work has contributed to an increase in recruitment scams.
#rwanda
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