5 tips on how to quickly expose fraudulent job offers

Finding a job is not easy – in addition to serious job offers, there are always scams. These tips will help you discover fraudulent jobs.

If you're looking for a job, that's probably exciting enough – lots of offers with just as many requirements. In any case, you should pay attention to which vacancies you pick out so that you get a job that matches your qualifications and where you are paid accordingly. But you should not only keep an eye on the pay and the potential working environment - you should also pay attention to the seriousness of the advertisement. Below are five tips to help you expose fraudulent job offers.

With a few tips, you can recognize dubious job offers. © Andrey Popov/Imago

Debunking fraudulent job offers – this is how it works

Fraudulent job offers or job scamming is a scam with which criminal people want to get your personal data. To do this, they use fake job offers to which applicants respond. These false job offers can also be placed in reputable job portals, so it is important that you always pay attention to the seriousness of the respective offer.

Then you should be suspicious:

If a far above-average salary and an outstanding job description that is far better than the job requirements are indicated.

This is usually only intended to attract you, it can lure websites behind it that look professional, but have only been recreated by people so that you fall into the trap. Sometimes even supposedly real job interviews are recreated in the subsequent step, but these take place digitally via various messenger services. You should be alerted if you are asked for a legible copy of your identity card and if a video identification procedure is also to be carried out. The NRW police also warn against this procedure on their website: "A video identification procedure as part of an online application process is quite possible. In any case, however, you should refuse to open an account via the video identification procedure in an application process." If this has happened, you should file a complaint.

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These tips will help you spot a fraudulent job offer

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If you follow these tips, examine the job offers for their seriousness and look at the job offers with tact, then nothing stands in the way of your application for your dream job. If you come across offers on job portals that make you suspicious, you can also report this directly there.