Employment websites

Scam job listings and fraudulent recruitment efforts abound in email inboxes and on sites like Indeed, LinkedIn, and Zip Recruiter, according to a new report from the Washington Post. Under the guise of fake employment offers and opportunities, internet grifters are angling to take advantage of jobseekers, and collect personal information. The Post article details the specific experience of Lisa Miner, a dialysis technician who was nearly duped by a fake recruitment email to become an app developer for CVS Health. She…

Would you apply for a job with an advertised salary cap of $2 million dollars? What about a job with a potential base pay of $0.00? What if I told you that, apparently, they’re the same job.That’s right, Citi bank is hiring a New York, New York-based “client service officer” and for at least a few hours on Tuesday, the role was advertised as either entirely unpaid or as coming with enough compensation to instantly catapult oneself into the mythic one percent. Based on the listing, it was impossible to know. The listing…