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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