Job seekers beware: there’s a new criminal who is targeting CareerBuilder users.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Spam Data Mine is reporting that CareerBuilder is being targeted by a scammer who is claiming to have a new Digital Certificate said to protect customers and is then stealing login credentials to their site.
In the scam, a job posting for a financial assistant is sent to account holders asking them to apply. In reality, according to Gary Warner, UAB’s Director of Research in Computer Forensics, the job seeker will receive a commission for receiving stolen funds into their personal bank accounts and then transferring the funds to the criminals via a wire transfer.
The scam is nothing new, but Warner said that CareerBuilder is the first employment company targeted by this particular criminal, who is looking to recruit more “money mules.”
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September 23rd, 2008 at 4:11 pm
An HR director emailed me this in response to the article:
At my previous employer, we got hit with this last year. Someone was posting accounts payable positions under the company name with job locations in small towns throughout the U.S., where my previous employer had absolutely no offices.
Apparently a few people fell for the scam and later contact us about it. Our internal investigation traced the culprit to someone in the U.K. and I believe the trail ran cold after that.
Careerbuilder’s staff responded promptly to take down the false postings and investigate how it happened.