Best Ways to Detect a Fake Job Offer

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While internet has helped job seekers find vacancies at the click of a button from anywhere, it has also made them more vulnerable to hackers.

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Fraudulent job emails usually don’t have detailed information about the job, role, company and package. The content of the e-mail would be vague and unclear.

If money is asked, then it’s fake job call. No legitimate company asks for money in the name of bond or security deposits in advance.

Generally, these emails would land in your spam folder. Because, they were sent in bulk.

Email address from where the mail is sent would be deceptive. You would find email address where the name of the company would be displayed like this ‘@abc.com’. However, a genuine job call from any company will never use email services of Gmail or Yahoo Mail or Hotmail to send job offers to candidates.

Office address given in the bottom of the mail would mostly be wrong.

Fake job calls generally would have numerous misspellings and grammatical errors.