Don't Waste Your Money: Remote job-search scams

by: Kate Sweigart Posted: Jan 15, 2021 / 07:48 PM EST / Updated: Jan 15, 2021 / 09:01 PM EST During the pandemic, job interviews are being done online via video conferencing. In Friday’s “Don’t Waste Your Money” segment, abc27 warns job candidates to make sure they know who they’re chatting with. If job searching is on the agenda during the pandemic, be on the look-out for job scams. Due to this video-based way of hiring, a surge of job scams has occurred, and one job hunter learned the hard way. Jordan Dixon was recently laid off from his job as a graphic designer due to the pandemic. So he jumped on LinkedIn, and quickly found a designer job listing at a company called “Miller Paints.” “It was for a multimedia designer opportunity,” Dixon said. He applied and was immediately contacted by a recruiter. “They actually sent me a questionnaire, a 20-question Microsoft Word document that had a lot of in-depth questions,” Dixon recalls. The next day they told him the position was his if he just sent some personal info, like banking information and his social security number. But then he noticed the recruiter’s email was misspelled as “Miiler…
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