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Employment arena is a favorite hunting ground of scammers. They use Emails, Text Messages, Classified Ads, Phone Calls and Social Media to reach potential jobseekers with their cleverly designed scam messages. The focus is on luring victims into paying money in one name or the other, by making them believe that the offer has come from a well known company.
The bogus employment offers can be for local or foreign jobs. The victims are informed that they are “selected” based on their profile in some job site. Or sometimes are “selected” out of the blue!
Emails
You would find job offer mails with multiple job profiles, with the scammers expecting the potential victim to fit into one of those categories!
You may receive bogus job offers from an array of companies! IBM, Oracle, Shell, Hilton Hotel, United Health Care etc. The scammers create fake mail ids and even bogus websites (phishing sites) resembling the company its pretending to be.
Job seekers should appreciate the fact that a genuine firm will proceed to recruit only after thorough evaluation of candidate. An employment offer will not land in your inbox, unsolicited.
Bogus emails offering employment can be easily identified by observing the email to which reply is to be sent. The email ID should be the official mail Id of the company and the string after @ in the email id, should be the name string in the website URL of the company.
For example a mail from the Hilton Hotel should read @hilton.com NOT hilton@live.com
Text Messages
Text messages ask the user to call back the fraudster who pretends to be the Recruitment Manager of a widely known company. Text messages may have website links (phishing pages) or a link to download bogus offer letter. The victims are told to pay certain fees, security deposit or refundable deposit which the scammer receives by Moneygram, Western Union etc
Classified Ads
Free Classified websites like Craigslist, Backpage, Gumtree, Olx etc are haven for job scammers. Employment seekers are lured by attractive offers which eventually turn out to be a bad dream!
Phone Calls
Scam artists carry out elaborate hoax by calling gullible job seekers and traps them into paying money
Social Media
Social media sites including Facebook & Linkedin are thickly populated by bogus recruiters. They identify and contact potential victims and send them fake private messages offering employment.
Steps to Protect Yourself From Job Recruitment Scammers
If you come across Job Recruitment Scams with phone number to call, report details at: http://www.scamcallfighters.com/
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