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> So it seems to be a phishing opportunity is to create a profile on LinkedIn or angel.co with a company name that matches your target company. Write some job p
by mccorrinall 4y ago
> So it seems to be a phishing opportunity is to create a profile on LinkedIn or angel.co with a company name that matches your target company. Write some job postings with descriptions that look like a job posting that the company would actually hire. And now those job postings will be reposted onto the official LinkedIn pages of the company, and applicants will be redirected to your phished webpage.
Ehh, not sure how I'm targeting the company by doing that? If I understand correctly, you're actually targeting an applicant here.
- ajb 4y agoNot the op, but the major group tempted to do this would be recruiters, who get paid by companies, not candidates
- faddypaddy34 4y agoOr people looking to lure job applicants into a scam. The job being on the companies actual LinkedIn page adds all the credibility they need to lure people in.
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoEspecially when many companies run their job application pages through 3rd parties. The phishing page having a different domain isn't suspicious at all. Most of the time when I check the career's page on a company's website, it links to something like "corpname.randomhrsolutions.com".
- IsopropylMalbec 4y agoI think that it would make an illegitimate job posting for example.com look legitimate as LinkedIn scraped it and posted it in LinkedIn's example.com profile page.
- gurchik 4y agoYou're targeting the applicants but you're accomplishing the scam by using the official LinkedIn profile of the company which can hurt credibility.