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Glut of Fake LinkedIn Profiles Pits HR Against the Bots

October 5, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, hamish taylor, isoutsource, jason lathrop, linkedin bots, Mark Miller, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 21:20:53 +0000

A recent proliferation of phony executive profiles on LinkedIn is creating something of an identity crisis for the business networking site, and for companies that rely on it to hire and screen prospective employees. The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate accounts — are creating major headaches for corporate HR departments and for those managing invite-only LinkedIn groups.

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Registered at SSA.GOV? Good for You, But Keep Your Guard Up

January 26, 2018 admin A Little Sunshine, Ed Eckenstein, form 1099, irs, Mark Miller, MySocialSecurity, MySSA, Reuters, Ruth Eckenstein, Social Security Administration, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 19:43:29 +0000

KrebsOnSecurity has long warned readers to plant your own flag at the my Social Security online portal of the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) — even if you are not yet drawing benefits from the agency — because identity thieves have been registering accounts in peoples’ names and siphoning retirement and/or disability funds. This is the story of a Midwest couple that took all the right precautions and still got hit by ID thieves who impersonated them to the SSA directly over the phone. In mid-December 2017 this author heard from Ed Eckenstein, a longtime reader in Oklahoma whose wife Ruth had just received a snail mail letter from the SSA about successfully applying to withdraw benefits. The letter confirmed she’d requested a one-time transfer of more than $11,000 from her SSA account. The couple said they were perplexed because both previously had taken my advice and registered accounts with MySocialSecurity, even though Ruth had not yet chosen to start receiving SSA benefits.