How recruitment sites fraudsters are duping job seekers

Hiring portals are becoming the new target of scamsters as fraudsters are increasingly targeting candidates looking for vacancies at the job portals. So, if you get a job call or email from a job portal, you should take extra care to verify with the job provider before celebrating your new job.Recently, a number of fake job cases have been reported across the country in which job seekers were asked to deposit money in lieu of jobs in reputed multi-national companies with decent salaries.In most cases, job seekers get a call or email saying that “Your résumé has been shortlisted for an interview” for a reputed multinational company. After few questions, the fraudsters ask candidate to pay a registration fee to fast forward CV or final selection. These scamsters get contact numbers and email ids of job seekers from popular job portals then target people according to the preferences of the victims. Consumer complaint websites are full of stories about unemployed people being exploited by dodgy job websites. To stop these scams, job portals have also started putting disclaimer on their websites.

from The Economic Times https://ift.tt/2PcG2Ab