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...cracking down. Over the summer, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a wave of cases, including one against Job Safety USA, a front company that targeted people seeking maintenance and cleaning work. The ads claimed that for $98 Job Safety would send a credential called a "certificate registration number" and then help the registrant find a job. But the credential was bogus and there were no jobs. "When the economy is down, scammers take advantage of people who are anxious about their financial position," says FTC attorney Karen Hobbs. A growing area of concern: unemployment-insurance scams. (Make a note...
...asks for "Status Of Job You Into." Less blatant red flags include e-mail addresses with domains like Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! and Rediffmail (an Indian outfit) - most legitimate hirers have e-mail addresses from their companies. A company or recruiter that asks for your bank account or credit-card number is a huge warning sign. True, plenty of companies use bank information for direct-deposit paychecks - but that comes after you're hired...
...Job-Hunt.org, Joyce tries to actively weed out the fake jobs. First, she Googles the hiring firm. "If all you find are other jobs postings on other jobs boards, that's a red flag," she says. Next she searches for a corporate phone number on a site like Hoovers.com and calls to make sure the opening is legit. That simple process leads her to toss about a third of the postings she receives. On larger sites like Monster and CareerBuilder, there's no one doing that legwork for you. And the scammers are definitely out. The Canadian version of Monster...
...thing to be most careful about is handing over personal information like your date of birth and - above all else - your Social Security number. Once scammers have gotten ahold of that piece of particularly sensitive information, they can do real damage, like opening credit cards in your name and running up thousands of dollars in charges that you'll later have a difficult time getting out of. There might be a real reason to ask for that information - to do a background check, say - but you should withhold it until after an in-person meeting. "What employer is going...
...problem. And four years later, the WHO launched an international task force dedicated to the issue. But so far, such efforts have merely highlighted the growing trade. The Pharmaceutical Security Industry tracked more than 1,800 incidents of drug-counterfeiting around the world last year, 10 times the number when it first started monitoring seven years ago. Getting governments and law enforcers around the world to work more effectively to counter the problem has proved hard. (See the top 10 product recalls...