Recognize Fake Recruitment Offers & Email Scams
Recruitment Scam is a thriving Cyber Crime Industry which is said to have swept away Rs. 120 Crore from Indians last year. Criminals take advantage of eagerness of jobseekers to find a cushier job with better pay package, than their own.
The spammers could use names of well known companies and even design mail ids or URLs similar to theirs. The Spam may originate from India or abroad. It can be from Nigeria but offer may look like coming from US or UK.
A) How do one Recognize Recruitment Scam Mail?
Step 1. By Observing Content of Mail
IF you have not applied for the job offered and email says you have been selected or short listed, simply press DELETE button
IF the mail asks for payment of any money for any reason, simply press DELETE button
IF the unsolicited mail asks for personal information in the first mail itself for example your Mobile Number, simply press DELETE button
IF the mail instructs candidate to reply to a mail ID which is different from the mail ID, from which the Job Offer was received, simply press DELETE button
Step 2. By Observing Email Id.
If we observe the Mail ID from which mail has arrived, it could even be the actual mail ID of a reputed company. Its possible to force “From Mail ID” as any mail Id, that a person wants. This means one could receive an email from hr@infosys.com which was actually sent by cyber thieves and not by Infosys. This is a technique called “email spoofing” and is widely adopted by Spammers.
But when “Reply” button is clicked, the mail id will be a Hotmail, Gmail or such other accounts. Sometimes the “TO” mail ID will be deceptively similar to the actual mail ID of the Reputed Company.
A company mail ID will end with companyname.com, or companyname.in etc Since Criminals can not use the mail Id of the Company which they are spoofing, to receive mails, in order to deceive candidates, they will create mailid starting with company name.
For example, mail is received from hr@infosys.com offering job for software engineers.
But when “Reply” button is clicked, the “To mail Id” is observed to be hr.infosys@hotmail.com . This is a Hotmail account created by criminals starting with hr.infosys@ to make it look like genuine mail Id of the company.
Or the Spammers will register a website URL similar to the reputed company (for example www.info-sys.com ). In this case, the reply email id will be hr.infosys@info-sys.com, hr@info-sys.com or something similar to this ending with info-sys.com
Many jobseekers may fail to see the deception and start mailing and interacting with the cyber criminal gang, all the while presuming that they are corresponding with Infosys executives!
Step 3. Do Background Check
Jobseekers should never ever proceed with any employment offer without checking background of the sender on the internet. If the email received is a fraud, then someone would have posted comments or an article on the matter.
For example, if Recruitment mail from “GCI Enterprises” is received, search immediately on Google for “GCI Enterprises Complaints” . This should throw up enough results to alert a person, about the scam.
Step 4. Unable to Decide Even After above Verifications?
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