Fake recruitment is really cheating money, you have to borrow money before you get a job, resume information is sold... Right now, the autumn recruitment is in full swing, and all kinds of job traps have also entered a period of high incidence. From "recruitment within central state-owned enterprises" to "recruitment for training", from "purchasing a car with zero down payment" to reselling resume information, the tricks of criminals are constantly iterating.
"You only need to pay a certain amount of deposit and sign a service contract, and you will be hired within 3 months at the earliest." A fraud gang recently eliminated by the Xinghualing Branch of the Taiyuan City Public Security Bureau in Shanxi Province used this trick to defraud more than 2.7 million yuan. The main culprit Zhang’s plan is that in about three months, job seekers will find themselves unable to join. At this time, employees will use various reasons to delay time and refuse refunds to buy time for them to "escape", and then cancel the company, rent out the venue, and reopen in a different location. The police found out that the 11 members of the gang knew full well that their boss did not have the ability to manage the position, and they only wanted to earn high commissions.
"Recruitment-to-training" and "recruitment-to-loan" are also job-hunting traps that have occurred frequently in recent years. They are essentially frauds under the guise of recruitment and for the purpose of making money. Illegal institutions use high-paying jobs as bait to induce job seekers to participate in training and apply for high-value training loans. This is highly concealed and deceptive, and may cause chain harm.
According to a typical case released by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, an education development company in Shenzhen released high-paying job information such as "video editing" and "brand promotion and marketing" through a recruitment platform. On the grounds of "recruitment on behalf of others" and "pre-job training", it induced job seekers to sign an "Employment Guidance Agreement", agreeing to pay training fees of 24,800 yuan in installments, and promising to recommend employment after training. After participating in the training, the job seekers found that it was only recruitment on behalf of others, and their application for a refund was rejected.
There are countless such cases. From April to July this year, the State Council’s Leading Group for Employment Promotion and Labor Protection deployed a nationwide special campaign to clean up and rectify the order of the human resources market. During this period, a media technology company in Beijing used the rhetoric of "high salary, zero threshold" to lure more than 1,200 job seekers, involving more than 19.5 million yuan. The case was investigated and the main culprit was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison.
In addition to traditional scams, new job hunting traps are also emerging. According to reports, Mr. Liu from Jinan, Shandong Province, was excited to apply for the job after seeing a job advertisement that said "a guaranteed monthly income of 12,000 yuan, a C1 driver's license is enough, and there is a stable supply of goods." During the interview, the other party proposed the plan of "purchasing a car with zero down payment", saying that "if you run for three years, you can get a car for free." After Mr. Liu signed the entrusted car purchase agreement, mortgage loan contract and other documents, he found that the actual maximum monthly gross income was only 4,000 yuan. Excluding gas expenses, road and bridge tolls, "you even need to repay the car loan". After investigation, the criminal suspect Kang registered a number of empty logistics companies and designed a fraud routine of "draining traffic-interview-loan-closing payment", defrauding more than 20 job seekers of more than 500,000 yuan in total.
After I submitted my resume, the interview notice did not come, and the harassing phone calls came first. In a case handled by the Shanghai Jing'an District Procuratorate, a company purchased a false business license to register 41 recruitment platform accounts, posted false high-paying positions and "cast a wide net", stealing more than 428,000 pieces of personal information in less than four years. The media also exposed that 3,200 resumes were resold for nearly 10,000 yuan. This information is not only used for precise fraud, but can also be used to register payment accounts, turning job seekers into "money laundering tools."
"From traditional black employment agencies to today's recruitment and transfer training, training loans, paid referrals, and certificate agency, job-hunting fraud techniques are constantly escalating." Wang Yuqi, a lawyer at Guangdong Guanghe (Changchun) Law Firm, said that the appearance of the scam is changing, but one bottom line remains the same - applying for the job itself does not require any fees.
Wang Yuqi reminded that anyone who is required to pay training fees, clothing fees, security deposits, and materials fees before joining the company, or who is induced to apply for an installment loan to participate in "pre-job training", no matter how "humane" the words are, should be decisively rejected. During the job search process, you should pay attention to retaining chat records, agreement texts, and transfer vouchers. Once any abnormalities are discovered, promptly complain to the human resources and social security department or report the case to the public security agency. The law is a means of relief after the fact, but prevention beforehand is the lowest cost and most effective self-protection.
