Job scams in the interweb age

I’ve got a few LinkedIn profiles that are, even at a glance, ridiculous. Even so, I regularly get job suggestions from Linkedin, lots of join my network messages, and the occasional “we’ve got a job for you” message. After the first month, I learned to filter them all. However, there are a lot young, up-and-comers, who may not know better. Here is a perfect example … yes, it’s from my go-to public security site …

The best line of the whole article (to me)… "“So my dad said, ‘Troll him back, and tell him you want a signing bonus via money order.’ I was like, okay, what’s the worst that could happen? I never heard from him again.”

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