Latest ID theft scam: Fake job listings
Saturday, March 1, 2003 Posted: 8:07 AM EST (1307 GMT)
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JOB SITES ADVISE USERS:
Not to share Social Security data over the Internet
Don't give credit card information to employers
Avoid disclosing your marital status
Be particularly cautious with employers outside the U.S.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Internet job board Monster.com, acknowledging a growing problem for online career sites, is e-mailing millions of job seekers, warning that fake listings are being used to gather and steal personal information.
An e-mail message from Monster, which arrived in many users' computer mailboxes Thursday, cautions that "regrettably, from time to time, false job postings are listed online and used to illegally collect personal information from unsuspecting job seekers."
The e-mail, labeled a "critical service message," is going out this week to all active users of Monster's main site, company spokesman Kevin Mullins said Thursday. Mullins said he did not know exactly how many people that included, but that it is "definitely well into the millions."
Difficult to estimate damage
The e-mail warning focuses attention on an issue that has long been talked about in the online recruiting business, but whose scope or damage is difficult to estimate.
Monster and competitors like CareerBuilder.com and HotJobs.com, already post information cautioning users of such dangers and telling them what they can do to protect themselves from false postings.
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