Recent Graduates Are Falling for Scam Jobs

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during the pandemic, making conditions ripe for recent graduates to fall victim to scams.

Young people may not be finding scams in the typical places where opportunities are posted, like online job boards. Handshake, a site created specifically for college students, and Monster both tellthat there has not been a significant change in the number of scam jobs posted on their sites. They say they have safeguards in place to prevent these types of jobs from being posted, but decline to give more details so their systems can be shielded from work-arounds by scammers.

Another is a reshipping scam, with a position titled “warehouse redistribution coordinator” or something similar, where the employee is directed to reship packages. Afound that 65% of fake job offers are for this scam; but unlike the fake-check scheme, victims may be criminally liable because the packaged goods are often stolen.

If you’re thinking you would never fall for something like that, you are not unusual among members of a younger demographic. The longtime stereotype of a typical scam victim is a “little old lady,” says Katherine Hutt, the Better Business Bureau’s chief communications officer, but, according to data from recent years, elders have been less likely to succumb to scams than younger people.

 

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