Online Resumes Fertile Ground For New Identity Theft Scam

Job seekers the world over know that the best places to post your resume are at online job sites like Monster.com, HotJobs.com, and SimplyHired.com, to name a few. Between even just these three sites alone, there are hundreds of thousands of resumes posted online, available for all to search and read.

Let’s back up a moment. “Available for all to search and read.” All. Oh, sure, on some job sites you have to pay a fee to search the resumes, but that’s chump change for employers.

Or identity thieves.

That’s right. The newest identity theft scam is perhaps one of the most obvious: scammers search online resumes for the information they need to steal your identity.

It’s all right there. Your name, your address, your telephone number, your educational…

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