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Jobfishing: Five Steps to Verify the Company That Offered You a Job
If you have been online in the last few weeks, you probably have already seen, or at least heard about Netflix’s “Inventing Anna” or “Tinder Swindler.” It is no surprise that these series have had such an emotive response from the audience. After all, criminals used the Covid-19 pandemic to target victims online, through impersonation scams, romance fraud and investment scams.
But the recent investigation by the BBC uncovered a new type of fraud, deemed jobfishing – when they came across a fake design agency Madbird. All the employees were instructed to work from home and communicate only via Zoom and