Dubious HR Profiles & Unrealistic Job Offers At Companies
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 5:40 am
To say we are living in one of the most competitive and challenging of times would be an understatement. The issue is far more complex than one could imagine. Each year millions of students are graduating from institutions around the world. These candidates are more skilled and employable than ever before but the fluctuating and volatile economic situation, the changing labour rules and immigration norms, changing political scenarios; coupled with various other factors have made things increasingly challenging for these skilled job seekers. Competition is ripe and opportunities are less. In this scenario Social media boom has become such a blessing for job seekers - to stand out from the crowd, find the right employment and be found by the right employer.
A recent article on a very popular business website said ‘93% of recruiters and 38 percent of job seekers are using LinkedIn’. Professional business networking sites like LinkedIn, XING and Viadeo have become extremely popular among both job seekers and employers alike. Unfortunately, this has also attracted the attention of a new breed of professional frauds and scammers and given way to a new trend of HR scams. A section of people are using LinkedIn to trap desperate job seekers and are tricking them into parting with their personal information. The info gathered in this method is sold offf to database companies. A more serious aspect of this united kingdom phone number resource scamming practice is that besides info stealing the scammers also make gullible job seekers click links (shortened using URL shortners) to malicious websites . Clicking such links results in the computer automatically downloading keystroke logging Malware – which can steal all the information from the computer and lead users to becoming victims of identity theft.
A detailed look at most job groups on LinkedIn will reveal that the boards are filled with countless bogus recruitment offers on a daily basis. Scammers have found this a viable option of tricking people who are looking for job.
LinkedIn is a professional network that claims they have over 225 million professional’s profiles online. We are not sure how many of those 225 million profiles are probably ‘bots’, fake profiles created by unscrupulous people for nefarious purposes. Bitdefender, maker of anti-malware software recently warned about a new virulent campaign on LInkedIn that lures victims with exciting job offers from the fake profile of an attractive female recruiter.
The very nature of online networking means establishing connections with strangers based on the information they provide on their professional profiles. We are not so sure this information is authentic and are left with little means to verify whether it is 100 percent true. We go by face value and this is precisely what the fraudsters are trying to capitalize on. The ease with which one could pick a random models picture from Google images and create a fake professional profile has increased this problem, but then there are ways to handle such people online and this is what I am going to talk about below.
A recent article on a very popular business website said ‘93% of recruiters and 38 percent of job seekers are using LinkedIn’. Professional business networking sites like LinkedIn, XING and Viadeo have become extremely popular among both job seekers and employers alike. Unfortunately, this has also attracted the attention of a new breed of professional frauds and scammers and given way to a new trend of HR scams. A section of people are using LinkedIn to trap desperate job seekers and are tricking them into parting with their personal information. The info gathered in this method is sold offf to database companies. A more serious aspect of this united kingdom phone number resource scamming practice is that besides info stealing the scammers also make gullible job seekers click links (shortened using URL shortners) to malicious websites . Clicking such links results in the computer automatically downloading keystroke logging Malware – which can steal all the information from the computer and lead users to becoming victims of identity theft.
A detailed look at most job groups on LinkedIn will reveal that the boards are filled with countless bogus recruitment offers on a daily basis. Scammers have found this a viable option of tricking people who are looking for job.
LinkedIn is a professional network that claims they have over 225 million professional’s profiles online. We are not sure how many of those 225 million profiles are probably ‘bots’, fake profiles created by unscrupulous people for nefarious purposes. Bitdefender, maker of anti-malware software recently warned about a new virulent campaign on LInkedIn that lures victims with exciting job offers from the fake profile of an attractive female recruiter.
The very nature of online networking means establishing connections with strangers based on the information they provide on their professional profiles. We are not so sure this information is authentic and are left with little means to verify whether it is 100 percent true. We go by face value and this is precisely what the fraudsters are trying to capitalize on. The ease with which one could pick a random models picture from Google images and create a fake professional profile has increased this problem, but then there are ways to handle such people online and this is what I am going to talk about below.