Find Out How Job Scams Can Ruin Your Job Search

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Have you been looking for the perfect opportunity to pursue a career in the oil and gas industry? Don’t let job scams affect you with its promises of a dream career and fat pay packages. Instead, work with reputed employment agencies to help you meet your goals and pursue a successful career in the oil and gas industry. Learn more about how tricksters and scammers can ruin your job search in this article.

Beware Of Scam LinkedIn Requests

A new way of stealing personal information is to create fake LinkedIn profiles and send ‘add contact request’ to unsuspecting job seekers. They then steal personal contact information of the job seeker’s contacts and send unsolicited e-mails, messages and make phone calls to extract money or get credit card information. In the guise of providing lucrative jobs in the oil and gas industry, these scamsters then charge upfront fees and disappear without a trace.

Meredith Cunningham said in a recent article:

“Most of these profiles use photos of women taken from stock photo sites and steal information from real profiles and are often in the “information security or oil and gas industry” sections. Here are other signs to look for, according to Symantec:

1. They bill themselves as recruiters for fake firms or are supposedly self employed

2. They primarily use photos of women pulled from stock image sites or of real professionals.”

BBB Has Launched Scam Tracker To Report And Warn

The Better Business Bureau has launched a scam tracker – tool to report scamsters and warn unsuspecting people of such activities and people. This tool will help job seekers to be aware of such malpractices and take adequate precaution and continue their job search with safety.

Job seekers for oil and gas positions should refer the scam tracker and keep away from revealing their personal information to such scamsters. Instead, they should work with established recruitment agencies to meet their career goals.

According to a recent news article:

“Better Business Bureau has launched BBB Scam Tracker to provide consumers with a place to report scams and fraud, and to warn others of malicious or suspicious activities. BBB is now collecting information from consumers and processing data, which is shared with law enforcement agencies for use in identifying and prosecuting scammers.”

Read this article to learn of the job scams and scamsters that can ruin your job search. The Scam Tracker offered by the Better Business Bureau will help job seekers to stay safe and be cautious in their interactions with strangers promising lucrative jobs in the oil and gas industry.