Recognising Fake Job Postings Online
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Fake job postings are specifically designed to collect personal information, banking details or an upfront payment under the reasonable-sounding guise of a genuine hiring process, often for roles advertised as remote, flexible and unusually well paid for the actual, fairly modest effort that role genuinely involves.
Warning signs include interviews conducted entirely through text chat with no phone or video contact whatsoever, requests for banking details well before any formal offer has actually been made, and instructions to purchase your own equipment or software as a stated condition of starting the role.
Checking whether the company has a genuine, independently verifiable website, searching for the exact job title alongside the word "scam", and looking for the company on established professional networking sites all help confirm legitimacy before you share any personal details with a stranger at all.
A genuine employer's hiring process, even for a remote or unusually fast-moving role, will still include some form of verifiable human contact, and will never ask a candidate to pay upfront simply for the simple privilege of being hired somewhere entirely new, unfamiliar and untested.