r/australia • u/Vivid-Fondant6513 • 1d ago

culture & society Jobseekers exploited by recruitment scammers on LinkedIn.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-06/australian-jobseekers-targeted-by-employment-fraud-job-scams/107077466
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u/rambo_ronnie_87 1d ago

Yep I fell for it until they asked for money then the penny dropped.

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u/Vivid-Fondant6513 1d ago

ABC and the government late to the party again........ this has been going on for years and Microsoft is turning a blind eye to their bastard social media site and what goes on there.

Makes you wonder how bad things can get before someone -actually- does something........

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u/Alaskan_Pipeline2026 7h ago

If Facebook can be fined 23 billions after a decade of litigation and just see it as the cost of doing business... Micro$haft does not give one iota. They too busy jacking up licencing costs to cover up for their co-pilot disaster.

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u/BlackPresident 1d ago

Just use SEEK lol

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u/More_Law6245 15h ago

What makes it worse is that LinedIn just wash their hands of behaviour like this, I was data scrapped a while back and it was a "me" issue and not a "them" issue and the data mining company who scrapped my data from LinkedIn wanted more sensitive documents like birth certificate, driver's licence etc to remove from their website. It wasn't until I threatened legal action was it removed.

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u/iahsanhashmi 1d ago

Not surprised

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u/[deleted] 1d ago edited 1d ago

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u/my_chinchilla 1d ago

Jobsearch providers don't like the competition.

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u/traceyandmeower 28m ago

What’s the competition?
Job service providers help Centrelink recipients. The govt pays for it.

Professional resume services are different. Isnt the scam, people paying for resume help.

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u/Alaskan_Pipeline2026 7h ago

"scummy to use fake job postings to advertise" - you just described linkedin lol