Online Job Scam: Methodology
Report home | Read the report (PDF) | Previous section | Next section The World Privacy Forum began study of online job scams in February2003. 1. Researchers did a background material search for...
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Report home | Read the report (PDF) | Previous section | Next section Thank you to all of the job seekers who have contacted the WPF and shared their experiences with us. Without the UMAB victims’...
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Report home | Read the report (PDF) | Previous section | Next section * The December 12 consumer report relating to what became the UMAB scam may be found at <https://www.worldprivacyforum.org>...
View ArticleOnline Job Scam: RSS Job Feeds and Job Fraud
Report home | Read the report (PDF) | Previous section | Next section RSS, a technology that collects information from Web sites, bundles it together and then sends it to individuals to read offline...
View ArticleOnline Job Scam: Critical Tips For Job Seekers to Help Avoid Job Scams
Report home | Read the report (PDF) | Previous section | Next section The following four tips can help jobseekers protect themselves from falling prey to payment forwarding scams. 1. Never give...
View ArticleOnline Job Scam: Job Site Responses
Report home | Read the report (PDF) | Previous section | Next section The World Privacy Forum contacted CareerBuilder.com, Monster.com and Hotjobs.com to invite them as industry leaders to provide...
View ArticleOnline Job Scam: Timeline – The Evolution of a Job Scam
Report home | Read the report (PDF) | Previous section | Next section This timeline tracks one job scam as it systematically wove its way through dozens of job sites over the course of a year and...
View ArticleOnline Job Scam: Payment Transfer Scams and How They Operate
Report home | Read the report (PDF) | Previous section | Next section Payment transfer scams begin with a con artist that pretends to be an employer. The con artist uses a job ad to lure in an...
View ArticleOnline Job Scam: Introduction
Report home | Read the report (PDF) | Next section Job scams are as old as jobs themselves. In past years, con artists would put a bad job ad up, fool a job seeker into giving up their money, and...
View ArticleWPF Report: A Year in the Life of an Online Job Scam – A Longitudinal Study
World Privacy Forum Report on Online Job Scams, Pt. I A Year in the Life of an Online Job Scam: A Longitudinal Study Pam Dixon, Principal Investigator (*) Read the Report: Download the report (PDF)...
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