Jobseekers now targets for spammers
Spammers are finding job hunters easy targets in these troubled times. So be wary about using the Internet – the spammers just might decide to drown you in their unsolicited emails.
LoHud.com ran the story, detailing how jobseekers are now seeing more unwanted emails in their inboxes. One John Gembeki now sees 80 or more junk e-mails on a daily basis, and he’s sure that they’re the result of the resumes he puts up on online job search sites like Monster.com. How is he sure? Well, he’s created an email account just for those sites, one he doesn’t use for any other purpose.
Gembeki did eventually get a gig via CareerBuilder, but he’s now leery on online job sites. He told LoHud.com, "Now with the Internet, you can do all this research, but there is this little percent of bad people out there who are trying to prey on people."
He noted that he got quite a variety of spam – from obviously bogus ones to some that almost look like they could be legitimate, until you read all the fine print.
Spammers, it seems, are getting smarter. They’re now targetting specific demographic groups, according to Forrester Research Inc.
"Spam attacks are migrating from the generic, blanketing method to targeted, social-engineering-driven methods. It’s not uncommon to see spam titled ‘Microsoft security updates’ targeting IT personnel and ‘senior prescription drug savings’ targeting retirees," said analyst Chenxi Wang in a recent Forrester report.
The ‘best practices’ advice that companies like Symantec Corp doles out – like not putting up personal information like telephone numbers or e-mail addresses – doesn’t mesh well with how job hunts are conducted online.
Users can also be easy prey, especially those naive enough to believe that jobs can easily be procured online. The Internet may automate things like sending resumes, saving you stamps and trips to the post office. But anything that doesn’t require an actual physical or phone interview, and asks you to pay money in the bargain, is probably a scam. As is the rule with most things online or off, anything that sounds too good to be true probably is. So let the jobhunters beware.
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January 10th, 2009
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