Scam Recruiting
Fraudulent job offers, advance-fee schemes, and credential harvesting through job platforms.
The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network reported that job and business opportunity fraud was among the top ten fraud categories by reports in 2022, with consumers losing hundreds of millions of dollars collectively to employment-related scams. The FTC identified online job platforms as the primary discovery channel for fraudulent job offers.
· 2022
The FTC reported that people lost more money to job scams in 2022 than in any other year on record, with reported losses exceeding $68 million. Scammers increasingly impersonate legitimate employers and use real job platform postings to lend credibility to fraudulent recruitment offers.
68 million USD reported losses· 2022
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