"And I’m thinking, hello? I mean, she should be preoccupied with me.
I am currently preoccupied with work at the moment," Berrios recalled. The final straw for Berrios, "I said, is it possible to do this with video? She says, `not at this moment, this is my working hours. "I’ve been to job interviews and they’ve asked me a lot of these questions." "They make it look so legitimate that, you know, you like second guess yourself," said Berrios thinking of the chat. They do extensive interviews to eventually get to additional personal information and cause trouble that way - names, addresses, social security numbers and birth dates.
The FBI warns fake Job listings have existed for decades.īut the current online interview boom makes scams easy to pull off, and much more lucrative.Ĭyber criminals pose as legitimate employers, spoofing company websites and posting fake "opportunities" on well known online job boards. I’m going to forward our entire conversation to the HR department’."īerrios noticed typos, but brushed them off thinking we all do that.īefore the chat was done, Berrios had an offer letter showing the corporate logo, from an email address that included the company name.īerrios says the interviewer stressed that they would never request additional personal information until training starts. Then, said Berrios, "She says, give me a few minutes. And she says, `yeah, this is something new that we’re trying out.’"īerrios says the interviewer asked questions including what’s more important to her in work, creativity or efficiency? The interviewer pointing out the data-entry work is very repetitive, and asking if Berrios was okay with that. And, I’m thinking well, this something new. "Just typing back and forth, I’ve never done this. "I’ve never done anything like this, mean on Zoom, fine, but Skype?" said Berrios of the new interview process. She posted her resume on and was excited when a recruiter emailed her to schedule an interview on Skype.Īlthough, it was not a typical video Skype.
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