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I think Indeed will have a huge legal risk selling personal data, but it could be scammers pretending to hire just to collect resumes, and of course the persona

• burningChrome 2y ago
  Some anecdotal evidence this is happening. Most of the time, I've used local recruiting companies. I've had long standing relationships with several firms and they've always gotten me good gigs. Once C19 hit and companies started taking applications from everybody since remote work was the thing, I applied for a few roles on Indeed since a buddy had good luck with it. Keep in mind, I never used any other platform like this. I never heard back from the two companies I applied to. But holy jesus and the mary chain after a few weeks I was suddenly getting up to a dozen emails a day from recruiters in India about all kinds of positions all over the country. Most of these places were sketchy AF. After trying to find some of them online, most just pointed back to a company profile on LinkedIn. I figured I would answer a few just out of curiosity to see if what I thought was going on, was going on. The first two I answered, the recruiters immediately asked for my social and a copy of my driver's license "for verification" to prove it was me that was actually applying and interviewing. Those two interactions alone confirmed that Indeed most likely had sold my information to either scammers or extremely sketchy recruiting companies who were making money selling their own lists to other recruiting companies. To this day, I'm still deleting and blocking these companies - YEARS after deleting my account on Indeed.