For the past two years, legitimate job postings on Indeed and Glassdoor have been replaced by scams. If you’re tricked, the scammers aren’t satisfied with your contact info in your CV, they reach out via email to request that you connect on an encrypted messenger app where they can privately scam you out of thousands in pre-hire “fees.”

Applicants now have to add vetting job postings to their repertoire, which adds time and effort to an already stressful process. Things like researching the supposed company in need of labor, and digging into reports against them.

Protect yourself and assume any job posting is fake until proven otherwise. In the US, you should report any scams you became aware of.

Edit: add the following: @[email protected] recommends reaching out via phone or email to your nearest job service office, if you’re seeking employment. These places are federally funded by our taxes, so they should be able to answer questions and help guide you to whatever your best options are, even if that includes helping you find remote work with out-of-state employers.

  • siderealyear@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Something else to be aware of is compromised LinkedIn profiles. I was recently contacted by a very real looking profile on LinkedIn, who was supposedly recruiting for a very real position at a very real company that the profile actually worked for. Red flags were:

    1. Bad english/spelling in messages
    2. Compensation a little too good to be true
    3. Sounded too easy to ‘get’ the job
    4. Person’s job title had nothing to do with recruitment until very recently
    5. ‘Application form’ they sent me looked a little bogus

    They wanted me to fill out a form with all my info., including SSN, and send photocopies of my ID. When I asked for an email address at the company in question to send everything to, they ghosted me.

    Yikes, that one almost got me. Advice here is to always manually two ‘two factor’ identify people who contact you out of the blue.

    Safe hunting folks.

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Yeah… I may have gotten scammed on Dice because I did that… I work in IT where tons of the recruiters are Indian/Pakistani and two for different jobs reached out to me and asked for that. Tons of jobs want background checks because some require security clearance so in my mass of sending out like 50 resumes I did so, and about half ask for a SSN. I thought about it like two or three days later and got a credit report and so far it’s clean.

      • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        You can freeze your credit for free. No credit lines can be opened while it’s frozen. To open a credit line, you go to the agency that they use and unfreeze it. They all support “unfreeze temporarily for X amount of time” as well, which makes it easy.

        You have to do it at all 3, but once its frozen, just ask anyone who you want a loan from who they use, login to the site, then unfreeze it for a week.

        Literally no concern about someone fucking with your credit after that.

        • jaxxed@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          When offering such advice, you should mention the region where you know this can be done.

          • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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            9 months ago

            Sure. The united States. The law that makes credit freezes free is federal, so it applies to the whole country.