Scammers are stealing recruiters’ identities to target job seekers
NBC News·2026-04-17 01:01
When Nick Russell lost his job as a lead gaming producer, Russell, like tens of thousands of tech workers caught in the recent wave of layoffs, immediately headed to LinkedIn. >> Kind of threw up on LinkedIn that I was on the job hunt. >> Russell says he was inundated with emails and messages from recruiters offering to help.Some of them legitimate, but many of them sophisticated traps powered by AI. >> I responded to all of them because they looked like legitimate leads. >> Were you duped initially.Uh, yea ...