The online job market has become a hunting ground for scammers who prey on hopeful job seekers.
The US Federal Trade Commission last year said that losses to job scams more than tripled from 2020 to 2023 and, in just the first half of 2024, topped $220 million.
This year, the FTC announced that, overall, Americans lost a whopping $12.5 billion to fraudsters in the full year of 2024 – up $2.5 billion from 2023. According to the alert, job scams were the third-most-reported type of swindle, cost