{"id":467,"date":"2006-11-29T10:21:40","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T16:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=467"},"modified":"2006-11-29T10:22:06","modified_gmt":"2006-11-29T16:22:06","slug":"from-email-scams-to-fake-job-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/from-email-scams-to-fake-job-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"From Email Scams To Fake Job Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,232500,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Victims Still Falling Prey to Nigerian E-Mail Scam.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is it me, or is this story almost unbelievable? I use that hoax as a punchline not as a storyline. To show you how out of touch I am:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The number of people falling for the scam is steadily increasing, with <strong>55,419<\/strong> lodging complaints in 2005 of at least receiving an e-mail that appeared to be a scam, according to the Federal Trade Commission. That&#8217;s almost <em>three times the amount received in 2002<\/em>, which was 21,616.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It gets worse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Audri Lanford, co-director of Scambusters.org, a service that helps fight Internet fraud, estimates that <strong>$200 million a year is lost to the Nigerian e-mail scam<\/strong> or variations of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So now you know, as do I, how big this scam is and how prevalent it is becoming. If you continue reading the story, you come to a paragraph that fits right in to this hoax.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another trend involves classified ads. Scammers will post fake job ads, and interested parties are asked to fill out an application, complete with personal information that includes date of birth and Social Security number &#8211; everything the scammer needs to swindle the victim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pathetic really. I can see where the fake application would fool many people and lead to identity theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victims Still Falling Prey to Nigerian E-Mail Scam. Is it me, or is this story almost unbelievable? I use that hoax as a punchline not as a storyline. To show you how out of touch I am: The number of people falling for the scam is steadily increasing, with 55,419 lodging complaints in 2005 of at least receiving an e-mail that appeared to be a scam, according to the Federal Trade Commission. That&#8217;s almost three times the amount received in 2002, which was 21,616. It gets worse: But Audri Lanford, co-director of Scambusters.org, a service that helps fight Internet fraud, estimates that $200 million a year is lost to the&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/from-email-scams-to-fake-job-ads\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,2,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-hiring","category-sourcing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-7x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1356,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/a-headhunting-scam\/","url_meta":{"origin":467,"position":0},"title":"A Headhunting Scam","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"December 28, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This story is almost unbelievable.\u00a0 The scam was set up at AIG and involved a VP of HR.\u00a0 From Workforce Management (my editing): Federal authorities have charged a former human resources vice president of American International Group Inc. and three accomplices with defrauding the insurer of $1.1 million with phony\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1930,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/03\/the-work-at-home-scam\/","url_meta":{"origin":467,"position":1},"title":"The Work-At-Home Scam","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"March 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This shouldn\u2019t be surprising, but abcnews.com has a story regarding all of the work-at-home job postings on the Internet right now.\u00a0 As you can imagine, this type of economy breeds these types of \u201cjobs.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ve always found them to be borderline ridiculous\u2026like the email spam that says you have inherited\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Employment Ads&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Employment Ads","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/employment-ads\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2086,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/08\/double-dippin\/","url_meta":{"origin":467,"position":2},"title":"Double Dippin&#8217;","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"August 6, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019ve come across two different instances of a nefarious sales trick that is reviving itself in the telecommuting era.\u00a0 Two different customers recently shared accounts of salespeople who were on their payroll and the payroll of another company.\u00a0 This stickler is that they were allegedly full-time employees for both companies.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sales Management&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Sales Management","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/sales-management\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":930,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/annoying-aspects-of-meetings\/","url_meta":{"origin":467,"position":3},"title":"Annoying Aspects Of Meetings","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"May 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Inc.com offers a quick article about annoying meeting items - New Study Reveals Why Meetings Are So Unbearable.\u00a0 From the article: Of 1,037 full- or part-time workers polled, 27 percent ranked disorganized, rambling meetings as their top frustration, followed by 17 percent who said they were annoyed by peers who\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Communication&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Communication","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/communication\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":203,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/promo-responses-to-job-postings\/","url_meta":{"origin":467,"position":4},"title":"Promo Responses to Job Postings","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"August 1, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the peculiar facets of Internet job boards is that you receive interest from around the world. 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