Watch for Red Flags When Doing Online Job Searches
In a recent report on job searching, The Conference Board noted that public are increasingly turning to the World Wide Web as a key tool, noting that in 2007, 73 percent of job seekers reported using the online sources compared to 66 percent in 2005.
While the Net has made searching for jobs easier, it plus provides an opportunity for identity thieves and scammers to take advantage of eager — and unsuspecting — job seekers.
A 2007 survey by CareerBuilder.com found that 84 percent of U.S. workers are not in their dream job. Unfortunately, the search for a dream job can lead to becoming a victim of identity theft or other types of hoax. In 2007 alone, the Federal Trade Commission recorded more than 11,000 complaints about business opportunities including work-at-home scams, many of which were advertised online.
The Better Business Bureau knows that the number of public who actually report being a victim of hoax when searching for a
The Better Business Bureau is providing guidance that will help society spot the seven most common red flags associated with online job search scams:
Red Flag: Employer e-mails are rife with grammatical and spelling errors.
Most online swindle is perpetrated by scammers located outside the U.S. Their first language usually isn’t English, and that is often evident in their poor grasp of the language, which can include poor grammar and the misspelling of common words.
Red Flag: E-mails purporting to be from job posting Web sites claiming there’s a problem with a job hunter’s history.
After creating a…
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