Nearly all scammers are using AI to track targets. It’s making the usual red flags harder to decipher.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Employment scams have more than doubled from 2024 to 2025, with over 23,000 reports flooding into the Better Business Bureau this ...

The most common methods of contact include email, text and “unsolicited recruiter outreach,” with job boards and networking platforms not far behind. Fraud in the hiring space has been a consistent ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

There are a lot of factors contributing to the hellscape that is the current job market: few open roles, fierce competition, AI automation and terrible global economic conditions, to name just a few.

For Americans searching for work, finding the right job has become more difficult — and avoiding scammers has become another challenge altogether. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) data shows reports of ...

If you are applying for jobs online, do your research before accepting an interview or employment offer. Job scammers have gotten very sophisticated, convincingly claiming to represent real employers, ...

Americans are feeling less confident about finding a job easily, and scams are not helping. Victims of job scams shared an average of four types of personal information per incident, such as their ...

If you are applying for jobs online, do your research before accepting an interview or employment offer. Job scammers have gotten very sophisticated, convincingly claiming to represent real employers, ...

At first, the job seekers didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. One spotted a post on ZipRecruiter for a position at J.P. Morgan, another submitted an application on LinkedIn for a vice ...

Fraud costs Americans billions every year.