February 19, 2009
Email Job Offers Can Steal Your Identity
UPDATE: 2/23/09 - CBS 5 (KPIX San Francisco Bay Area) aired a segment Friday night featuring Proofpoint. Yours truly talks about the recent rash of "work at home" job scam spam emails.
You can view the entire clip here: Proofpoint: Email Job Offers Can Steal Your Identity
Reporter Sue Kwon summarizes it pretty well:
"As unemployment goes up, job and business-opportunity scams are growing on the Internet. And in these desperate times, the unemployed are making desperate decisions while predators wait. Email spam is targeting job seekers - a new low in cybercrime coming through your email inbox."
See my previous blog post about this issue for tips on identifying and staying safe from these scams.
