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Comment on YSK: Indeed and other job sites are saturated with scams

siderealyear@lemmy.world ⁨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:

Bad english/spelling in messages
Compensation a little too good to be true
Sounded too easy to ‘get’ the job
Person’s job title had nothing to do with recruitment until very recently
’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.

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pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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- mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You can freeze your credit for free by law. 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.
  
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  - pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Thanks for the info! I’m in the US too BTW 🙂
    
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  - jaxxed@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    When offering such advice, you should mention the region where you know this can be done.
    
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    mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Sure. The united States. The law that makes credit freezes free is federal, so it applies to the whole country.
    
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punkwalrus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Not just LinkedIn profiles: there was a case out here near DC a while ago where a well known company leased out their function space for training meetings. Using a compromised company account, a set of scammers set up some fake recruitment profiles, leased out the meeting space for “software training,” and did some “mass hiring” where 30 individuals had their credentials scanned and duplicated. The effect was someone from the recruiting company was contacting you, you had a face-to-face where you got offered an in-person, you showed up to their offices, and got a “job offer pending a background check,” with a date of hire in official-looking emails. You sent in your SSN, copies of your passport and driver’s licence, and after a few weeks, they tell you to show up for orientation. Only, the day these people showed up, the company was confused and had never heard of you. The people you supposedly spoke to had never heard of you. And your identity was stolen, and huge loans and charges started showing up in your credit report.

Yikes.

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