Channel 4 report fake jobs?

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SaveMeDo wrote: »

I'm hopeful that whoever the morons responsible for running UJM are arrested and spend several years in the clink.

I think you'll find that whoever is in charge of UJM will be severely punished......just like the bankers were for ruining the country by having to accept huge bonuses and/or massive golden handshakes, courtesy of the taxpayer.:mad:

CreditCrunchie

Brilliant affiliate marketing there, can't fault his forward thinking ha! Unfortunately wherever there is a need for something, be it's a house, job, or credit, there will be people there ready to take advantage!

red_devil

With any luck all sanctions relating to this site will be overturned. Its diabolical.

SaveMeDo

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/mar/16/dwp-jobs-website-universal-jobsmatch

DWP ditches jobs website only 18 months after launch

Universal Jobmatch to be jettisoned after being subjected to ridicule following series of fake, repeat or fraudulent jobs ads

The government has drawn up plans to scrap its official jobs website, Universal Jobmatch, after recognising it is too expensive and that its purpose is undermined by fake and repeat job entries, according to leaked internal communications from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).
A cache of documents seen by the Guardian details how the government's main website for job hunters – which hundreds of thousands of unemployed people have been required by the DWP to sign up to – is likely to be jettisoned when the contract for the service comes up for renewal in two years.
A year and a half after its launch, Universal Jobmatch has been ridiculed for hosting numerous fake jobs, including one for an MI6 "target elimination specialist" and "international couriers" for CosaNostra Holdings, as well as listings for pornographic websites.
More recently very serious problems have emerged. Separate investigations by Channel 4 News and the Labour MP Frank Field have uncovered hundreds of thousands of fake, repeat or, in a minority of cases, fraudulent job postings that enticed jobseekers to spend money needlessly – for example on fake criminal records checks – or were a means of harvesting personal information for identity fraud.
At the start of March, the DWP removed more than 120,000, or one-fifth, of all job adverts from over 180 employer accounts,because the ads did not abide by the site's terms and conditions.
Field is now pressing the National Audit Office to investigate the site which he described as "bedevilled with fraud".


The DWP said they regularly monitor Universal Jobmatch to remove jobs that do not meet their rules and that of 524,640 employer accounts only a tiny minority have proven to be in breach of them. The leaked information about Universal Jobmatch contained in the leaked documents became public after the chair of the public accounts committee said last week that the DWP was on the verge of a "meltdown" over its relationship with private companies and welfare reform.
They say that some of the website's problems have partly stemmed from the decision by ministers that the site – which is run by the international online recruitment company Monster – be as "open" as possible to all types of employers. Recruitment agencies have taken advantage of this openness by uploading repeat adverts on the site.
The effect, the documents go on to say, has been that civil servants have been unable to determine how many genuine employment vacancies are listed on the site. According to one email, the data simply is not "robust" and rectifying the issue will be expensive.
Other internal communications suggest that civil servants have asked for more than one hundred changes to the service. However senior managers have decided to pass on only a handful of them to Monster because they have given up on improving the current site and expect to start afresh after April 2016.
In light of the high possibility that Universal Jobmatch will be cancelled in its current form, a communique to project heads said that the relationship with Monster now had to be managed "very carefully".
A paper detailing options for overhauling the site includes:
• Getting an outside company to create a new service that would "learn the lessons" from Universal Jobmatch.
• Designing a site that would only cater for small employers. Jobseekers would be expected to use other sites to find work that was with larger employers.

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eyelinerprincess wrote: »

More probably a virus, in which case I would visit the tech board to clean up your computer, or a cloned card. I doubt anyone could take money from your account with your CV alone.

Sorry to bump this but yes information in a CV can be used to find leaked information witch happens often like a few years ago they ware 14 million card details stolen from sony and yes alot of them have been decoded from the generic md5 hash they used.


This is why i keep a watchful on my bank account as even your username could lead to all your information getting found.

Moneyshow15

The last time I had to sign on, Universal Jobmatch was still attached to the registration process like any other job agency site. Hopefully the mickey mouse roles have dropped to the same average level as any other site.

Due to a ridiculous amount of spam, it's now worth using disposable email addresses only when jobhunting online.

Steady_Eddie_2

Does anyone remember the premium rate numbers scams on UJM?
There was a crack down, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it up and running again.

Another scam is employment agencies posting jobs that require references from previous jobs. The ad would put a lot of emphasis on the references. Once you call up, they will ask for the references, say they'll be in touch and call those references for leads to actual work.
The job never existed. I mentioned this in an interview and the interviewer said he knew this to be true from experience.

There are very few jobs in the economy. I think half of the jobs being advertised are fake. No matter which site they come from.