How to Tell a Job Offer from an ID Theft Trap

2021-05-21 17:41

Here's the story of a recent LinkedIn impersonation scam that led to more than 100 people getting duped, and one almost-victim who decided the job offer was too-good-to-be-true.

Gwin contacted KrebsOnSecurity after hearing from job seekers trying to verify the ad, which urged respondents to email Gwin at a Gmail address that was not his.

"The endgame was to offer a job based on successful completion of background check which obviously requires entering personal information," Gwin said.

Multiple things about this job offer didn't smell right to Siegel.

"Fake Job or Employment Scams occur when criminal actors deceive victims into believing they have a job or a potential job," the FBI warned.

"The majority of fake job postings are stopped before going live on our site, and for those job postings that aren't, whenever we find fake posts, we work to remove it quickly."

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