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Resumes Being Used for Identity Theft
Friday, February 10, 2006 - Millennium Radio New Jersey

David Matthau


It's information Jersey job-seekers need to know. Identity thieves are increasing logging on to internet job sites like Monster and CareerBuilder.com - to collect personal information from resumes that have been posted.

Pam Dixon, the Executive Director of the Group World Privacy Forum, says posting a resume openly is giving these crooks an easy invitation "because you've given them your work history- which is very detailed- and it gives someone a lot of information about you- that if you were a con artist- you could really use."

She says "most job sites give everyone the opportunity to post resumes privately- or masking your contact information- you should take advantage of this."

Dixon adds an increasing number of identity thieves are posing as employers from established companies, and calling job-seekers at home, and "they'll go through a couple of phone interviews with you and say oh we love you, we want to hire you- but the next step is a background check- we'll need your bank account information and your social security number."

She says if this happens to you, finish the conversation, then call the company directly "and ask them if that person works there-if it's a scam, that person won't work there, they will have never heard of that person, and that is a big red flag to run away from that opportunity."



By: David Matthau