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Use Caution when posting your resume online

Looks like you got some people posing as companies on Monster and asking for your Social Security # and such. Be careful, if you do post your resume online DO NOT INCLUDE ANY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION including your phone # and address. In fact you might want to use a fake last night and just let the employer know your true info when you contact them directly.

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Résumés are bait for ‘phishing’ scams »The Rider News

The Monster résumé database was recently the target of malicious activity that involved the illegal downloading of information such as names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses for some of our job seekers with résumés posted on Monster sites including MonsterTRAK,” Sal Iannuzzi, chairman and CEO of Monster Worldwide, said in the e-mail. A Rider student was scammed Oct. 29 after she put her résumé on an online job-posting site, according to Public Safety. A fake company claimed to be interested in her and provided a name and address. However, because of her alertness she did not follow through with the request and her identity was not compromised. Lawrence Township Police also took note of the fraudulent post. However, John LeMasney, manager of OIT-Instructional Technology, said there is no evidence that students were victims of the Monster scams in September at Rider, which offers the college division of Monster called MonsterTRAK. Yet that could be because not many people know when they are being scammed. In his statement, Iannuzzi attributes the breach in security to “phishing” e-mails, which is a term that many Internet users are not familiar with, according to LeMasney. “I would say that for every person who knows what phishing is, there are 10, 20 or 40 who don’t,” he said.

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