by TerranceBoyce
These are currently a major problem and pose a great risk to people looking for work.
The consequences for anyone falling victim to one of these scams goes much further than just losing money and wasting time. A victim could end up losing their bank account and being blacklisted, face repaying a large amount of money and potentially risk going to prison. Outside the harm to the primary victim, it also impacts the banks involved and law enforcement agencies.
Scammers will attempt to abuse any legitimate service that exists whether it be a bank or Western Union and it's inevitable. It's in their interest and that of the public that they take all reasonable steps to protect the integrity of their services and avoid abuse as far as they can.
I note that on one UK job site it clearly states that entities pay "a fee to access your contact information" which concerns me as it enables a scammer to compile "sucker lists" for a fee from CV's supplied by people looking for work and to contact victims under an entirely bogus identity direct. There is no excuse or reason for employment sites to operate this way.
This concerns me as I would consider it more secure for the job site to make companies contact you through themselves, in which case the scammer is not able to disconnect himself from whoever has compiled their 'sucker list'. Indeed, an entity could compile 'sucker lists' and then trade them to scammers for a fee without there being any control.
One thing I would mention is that having worked out how scammers operate it is then possible to devise a 'golden bullet CV' which could then enable law enforcement agencies to trace back who has accessed the information and identify who they are from their payment details.
The scammers regularly identify the employment site from which they gained the information to give their mail credibility, but by enabling the entities who use their services to anonymise their contact, it is impossible to stop the abuse.
The consequences for anyone falling victim to one of these scams goes much further than just losing money and wasting time. A victim could end up losing their bank account and being blacklisted, face repaying a large amount of money and potentially risk going to prison. Outside the harm to the primary victim, it also impacts the banks involved and law enforcement agencies.
Scammers will attempt to abuse any legitimate service that exists whether it be a bank or Western Union and it's inevitable. It's in their interest and that of the public that they take all reasonable steps to protect the integrity of their services and avoid abuse as far as they can.
I note that on one UK job site it clearly states that entities pay "a fee to access your contact information" which concerns me as it enables a scammer to compile "sucker lists" for a fee from CV's supplied by people looking for work and to contact victims under an entirely bogus identity direct. There is no excuse or reason for employment sites to operate this way.
This concerns me as I would consider it more secure for the job site to make companies contact you through themselves, in which case the scammer is not able to disconnect himself from whoever has compiled their 'sucker list'. Indeed, an entity could compile 'sucker lists' and then trade them to scammers for a fee without there being any control.
One thing I would mention is that having worked out how scammers operate it is then possible to devise a 'golden bullet CV' which could then enable law enforcement agencies to trace back who has accessed the information and identify who they are from their payment details.
The scammers regularly identify the employment site from which they gained the information to give their mail credibility, but by enabling the entities who use their services to anonymise their contact, it is impossible to stop the abuse.
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