Cyber criminals are targeting Australians with fake job advertisements on platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook and online job boards as well as phishing emails to defraud, siphon money from bank accounts or steal personal data.
But there are critical steps you can take to avoid being ripped off by a too good to be true opportunity.
More than 2500 Australian jobseekers were scammed by fake job ads in the last year, convinced to hand over personal details in the hope of landing work that didn’t exist.
It cost them a total of $1.7 million, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
And the number of victims is set to rise with hundreds of redundancy workers flooding the job market.
