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RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — With more than one million workers laid off recently, scammers are targeting desperate job seekers.
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They strike around holidays like Labor Day when security teams are short-handed and continue to ramp up their dirty deeds heading into the holiday hiring season.
These crooks use fake HR emails, forged contracts, and fake interviews to steal your data or money.
In episode 22 of Job Alert, Tomas Sinicki from Coveron shares with CBS17’s Bill Young three quick ways to protect yourself.
First, verify every opening directly on the company’s official website.
Second, walk away if a recruiter only uses encrypted chat apps or asks you to pay for equipment.
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Third, double-check the recruiter’s profile on professional networks before you reply.
Also, it isn’t just people looking for a job who are being targeted, so are people who already have a job, in particular higher-income earners.
Sinicki says scammers will pose as recruiters looking for highly qualified and experienced candidates and try to pull the exact same scam.
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