Have you ever been contacted by someone suspicious on LinkedIn offering you a job that seems too good to be true? In order to combat the wave of recruitment scams and spam that the job platform is experiencing, LinkedIn has announced a new verification badge for recruiters in the application.
From now on, recruiters will be able to confirm their identity through LinkedIn Recruiter, which will soon include it as an optional process. This would be similar to LinkedIn’s identity confirmation system for regular users, which provides a verification badge to make it clear that the user has gone through the identification process.
“Based on our own data and reports from platforms across the internet, we know that impersonating a recruiter is a common way that criminals try to scam people,” says Oscar Rodriguez from LinkedIn in a post. “Although we successfully intercept most fake accounts and scams, verification is one more step in our ongoing efforts to foster genuine and trustworthy interactions on LinkedIn.”
Verification badges for recruiters will be of great help in dealing with increasingly sophisticated internet scammers. Recently, we have come across a new SEO scam that uses AI-generated images of people to threaten to sue blogs and news websites. Additionally, another group of scammers used Elon Musk’s image to try to scam YouTube users during a solar eclipse.
