Financial Times – Ian Johnston
LinkedIn has been hit by a rise in sophisticated recruitment scams, as fraudsters seek to take advantage of the trend towards remote working and widespread layoffs across the tech sector.
Scammers identified businesses that were already hiring, including enterprise software company Zuora, software developer Intellectsoft and Zscaler itself.
They then created “lookalike” websites with similar job ads and, via LinkedIn’s InMail feature, invited jobseekers to enter personal information into the websites, before conducting remote interviews via Skype.
Jobseekers passed “invaluable” personal details to the scammers, with some requesting money for IT equipment or third-party training for which applicants would never be reimbursed, Desai added.
Link: https://www.ft.com/content/a8d262f4-5d52-4464-8714-e21a457aab33