Scammers are Posing as Employees from Local Tech Companies via Fake Job Posts

Kurt Schiller noticed a weird message come through Arcweb Technologies’ chatbot late last Monday night.

The message was from someone inquiring about a job that the software consultancy wasn’t currently hiring for. It was odd, the head of marketing recalled. But Schiller didn’t give it much thought until during work hours the next day.

“Then, Tuesday, a colleague in the marketing department told me she’d gotten a LinkedIn message from someone asking if she was really the person they’d just had an interview with,” Schiller told Technical.ly. “The person was saying they’d felt fishy about the interview, and the subsequent job offer and fact that they were about to send me a check for remote work equipment.”

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