Scammers mine online recruiter for patsies in package reship scheme

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ars Technica - 4/19/2017 - Sean Gallagher - If you're using a Web-based third-party recruiter site to look for and apply for jobs, you may want to keep a close eye on the e-mails you get in response. As Steve Ragan of CSO reports, scammers are harvesting information from recruiter sites to offer "flexible" jobs that are in fact criminal undertakings—often posing as executives from the companies where applicants have applied for jobs. One woman who applied for a job at the paint manufacturer Sherwin-Williams through the site of ZipRecruiter received an e-mail shortly afterward from someone posing as the CEO of the company. The person claimed that the position she had applied for was filled but offered another job as a "personal assistant" for the CEO himself for $500 a week. Read more @ https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/0 ... ip-scheme/