Highly Sophisticated Job Offer Scam
If you’ve been approached by recruiters on LinkedIn for a potential job opportunity, you may want to pay attention to this recent scam.
In a LinkedIn post, a prospective UI/UX Designer attending a University believed she was being interviewed for a position at Splunk, a prestigious software company. She received an email interview invitation and spoke to a ‘recruiter’ and eventually the ‘CIO’ to link up her credit card so then she can be given ‘company funds’. As a result, it was in fact a scam, and the bad actors were only using her credit card to buy Apple products and other equipment for themselves.
While the victim took immediate action by stopping the shipment, freezing her credit card, and report identity theft to the Federal Trade Commision (FTC), she was still a victim of social engineering. She stated that the threat actors used common language such as, “You’re Welcome Splunker!” to sound like these were legitimate employees. She even included a screenshot with a conversation:
Source: LinkedIn
While this victim came out unscathed, this can happen to anyone in your organization. It’s always important to implement new-school security awareness training to ensure your users know how to spot and report social media scams.
Don’t get hacked by social media phishing attacks!
Many of your users are active on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Cybercriminals use these platforms to scrape profile information of your users and organization to create targeted spear phishing campaigns in an attempt to hijack accounts, damage your organization’s reputation, or gain access to your network.
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- Get a PDF emailed to you in 24 hours with your percentage of clicks and data entered
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