Job Hunting? Look Out for These Scams
The Perfect Scam
AARP
4.5 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Employment scams are one of the fastest growing types of fraud. The recent surge can be traced to several post-pandemic factors that make these crimes even easier for criminals. In this episode, we will hear from a job seeker and an employer who’ve both been affected, as well as an expert who shares the red flags job seekers should be on the alert for.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on The Perfect Scamp. |
| 0:04.0 | Oh, thank you for your patience. |
| 0:05.8 | We can't wait to have you join our team. |
| 0:08.8 | And the email and the website seemed legit. I looked at it. It was up. It seemed real. I got |
| 0:18.6 | welcome to board and then they're going to put me in touch with the supervisor. |
| 0:25.0 | They had a logo on the job description. |
| 0:28.0 | I mean the judge was fully detailed. |
| 0:30.0 | It was impressive two pages of text of what the job entails, what they're getting, how much they're getting paid, and what the company will provide for them. |
| 0:39.0 | Was I impressed? I was very impressed, but I was also alerted, I was alarmed alerted I was alarmed like why they picking me |
| 0:49.9 | Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan. |
| 0:55.0 | This episode is a bit of an alert. |
| 0:57.2 | We've put it together because by all indication there is a recent surge in online job |
| 1:02.0 | scams, sometimes also called employment scams. |
| 1:05.6 | The Better Business Bureau reported last year that job scams had made a resurgence. |
| 1:10.6 | Then the identity theft resource center said just this month that reports of jobs scams were up 118% in 2023 as compared to |
| 1:20.0 | 2022. So we wanted to bring this story to you quickly. |
| 1:24.0 | Today you'll hear from a couple of different victims, |
| 1:26.9 | one a job seeker, one an employer. |
| 1:30.0 | And you'll also hear from an expert |
| 1:31.8 | about ways to protect yourself. |
| 1:33.6 | Job scams aren't new, but post-pandemic, a lot of factors have conspired to make the crime |
| 1:38.5 | even easier for criminals. |
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