People generally trust LinkedIn to provide legitimate job opportunities and often assume that the work-based platform is safe from fraudulent activity, but a woman's recent TikTok video suggests otherwise.
With a text overlay that reads, "I accepted a job that was a scam," the woman describes how she had been scammed by employers she had reached out to on the employment-focused platform.
“The crazy part is that everything about it seemed legit,” she says, “these people are good at what they do.”
She explains that she came across a job posting on LinkedIn that appeared to be legitimate, so she decided to apply for it like anyone else would.
The next day, she woman received an email requesting an interview, and a brochure was attached detailing the job.
“I’m telling you it was so legit,” she emphasizes.
They instructed her to download an app they used for team communication. Complying with their request, she downloaded it and contacted the relevant person, who scheduled an interview with her on the app for the following day at the same time.
During the interview, which was to her surprise conducted over text, the interviewer asked her many questions, and she responded in real-time.
Although the woman initially assumed the conversation would start with a simple greeting before the interviewer called her over the phone or in-person, she tried to convince herself that remote job interviews might be different.
Following the weekend, the person on the app instructed her to be ready for a call from the HR person. They called her later and offered her the position, which she eagerly accepted.
However, when she shared the news with one of her friends, they discovered a webpage on the company's website warning about job scams and people pretending to be employers from the company and offering jobs.
“Upon hearing this I knew like right away that there was no way that this was a real job,” she shares, “because a lot of the things about the job description were just like too good to be true.”
Upon discovering that the job offer might be a scam, she reached out to someone from the company who confirmed that the email she received was not legitimate.
Although she felt incredibly disappointed as she had been eagerly looking forward to this job opportunity, she was thankful that she hadn't shared any personal or financial information.
@lexaveee back to square 1🫠#jobs #job #jobinterview #jobsearch #jobhunt #jobhunting #scam #scammers #scams #scamalert #igotscammed #linkedin #fakejobposting #fakejobs ♬ Cumbia Buena - Grupo La Cumbia
The woman still has an unanswered question that that she couldn't shake off. “Who was the guy talking me on the phone?” she wondered, finding it to be the “weirdest part of the whole story.
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source https://www.womenio.com/43682/woman-shares-terrifying-story-of-falling-for-linkedin-job-scam
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