Jay MacDonald of Bankrate.com writes that a Florida attorney hoped to receive a flood of qualified applications when he posted a job opening on Monster.com for paralegal help at his Hilliard, Florida law firm.
What he wasn't expecting, however, was a school of "phish" to swim in on the deluge. Phish are those piranhalike e-mail probes that prey on the feckless."Shortly after I signed up, I got a bunch of e-mails purportedly from Monster.com, but I quickly determined that they weren't," the attorney says. "They weren't the typical sort of phishing e-mails; they had something that identified my (Monster) account."
He was convinced that his information had been compromised. And he was right.
According to a CNBC report, in January, Monster.com notified users that its database was breached and that account information - including names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, user names and passwords - had been compromised.
Proving once again, today’s job seeker is far better off using networking as their primary tool in searching for work, rather than posting on job search engines. As this attorney found out, “People who have posted a resume anyplace online are now being targeted by the thieves.”
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