Job-Offer spams targets job seekers

Now, its time for the spammers to utilize economic recession & heavy job cuts. Due to economical crisis, most of the companies started removing their employees. Spammers targets plently of job seekers who are affected by the job losses. Because of the recession as online identity thieves concoct clever new ways to sneak onto people’s computers.

Spammers sends an emails, that seems to have come from legitimate companies that say they’re  still hiring. The email messages are loaded with job offer links to the companies official websites, that can lead to install suspicious programs on the local computer. Some of the e-mails send an attachment, that are packed with dangerous computer viruses.

One example of such e-mail, supposedly from Coca-Cola Co., trumpets that “We are hiring!” All the recipient has to do is fill out the attached application to get started.

There are some tip-offs, though, that the message is fraudulent: the English is choppy, the company promises 12 weeks of paid vacation and that “None of the positions require any kind of education or work experience!”

“What they’re trying to tap into is human curiosity,” said Dermot Harnett, principal analyst of anti-spam engineering with Symantec Corp. “Maybe people have lost their jobs, or they’re looking for another job, and they’re looking at their e-mail constantly to see if they have responses from potential employers.”

The Federal Trade Commision also warns about this spam messages, that can simply steal your credit cards & bank account details.

So, its time for the job seekers to be careful while opening suspected emails.