Cybercriminals contact us either by e-mail, phone call, SMS or applications such as Whatsapp, Line, Telegram and similar, to inform us that we have been selected for a job. Following this and in the same conversation, they will ask us to confirm that we agree to continue in the selection process and that in order to formalize the hiring they need us to provide some personal data (including bank details).
At the moment, how are these scams being detected by Users?
- In these cases, in order to reach the maximum possible number of victims, it is common to use Artificial Intelligence programs. So the person contacting us is not real, it is a reply and we can detect it in the mechanized voice.
- In these conversations they do not usually indicate neither the company they are calling from, nor for which company the selection process would be for.
- Working conditions are often not just good, but “spectacular”, to attract our attention. In other words, we are offered a very high salary, 100% telecommuting, flexible working hours, etc.
- If we have not been actively involved in a selection process, it is very rare that a company will contact us directly to offer us a job.It is very rare that a company will contact us directly to offer us a job.
In these cases it is preferable to ask to be able to call them back at another time or for them to contact us again, so that we can check on the internet (on official websites or professional social networks) that the offer really exists. If we still have doubts about whether it is real or not, we can also contact the company from which they say they are calling us (by dialing the phone number we find on the official website), to ask for the same offer.