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Experts point out that scams and fraud through this network attend to recent cases.
Specialists point out that very well-paid job offers can be false.
Cybercriminals continue to improve their criminal ways to defraud more people in the world every day. Recently It was revealed that the LinkedIn digital platform, compared to other social networks, would be used by cybercriminals to scam.
According to Statista data, in 2021, the global number of LinkedIn users in the world amounted to about 774.61 million and it is expected that continue to increase over the next few years, until it exceeds the barrier of 1,000 million in 2025.
This social network offers people a great network of professionals, since there are a thousand opportunities in it, such as being able to meet several of the CEOs of important companies first-hand, discover what they are looking for, and being able, like the platform indicates it, socialize with personalities whose work profile is parallel to yours.
LinkedIn is being used to scam
Specialists point out that cybercriminals would be taking advantage of the perception that people have of LinkedIn compared to other social networks.
Experts point out that scams and fraud through this network attend to recent cases, since previous years there have been cases of identity theft also known as phishing.
For its part, in the 2018 Better Business Bureau (BBB), it released a report revealing that scams related to Job offers are the third most common form of fraud.
While ESET, which is a software company specialized in cybersecurity, shared in a recent report on the main forms of scams in this social network, where it highlights that E-mails with false Notifications are widely used by those who are dedicated to scamming for Internet, they send apparent emails with platform notifications, inviting the recipient to open the email, click on the attached link and enter personal information.
As they also use very well-paid job offers, they can be false job offers with salaries well above the average where part of the application process is the payment of amounts of money for training or medical exams.
Finally, pyramid schemes are also very common, where ESET reveals that it has become very common to receive Linkedin messages from people who appear to have a very neat and professional image inviting them to participate in investments in cryptocurrencies, the stock market or other types of assets.
A recent Brand Phishing Report from the first quarter of 2022 not only showed records of LinkedIn as a platform used by cybercriminals, as it points out that social networks are the main target of criminals, as well as transportation companies and tech giants like Google, Microsoft and Apple.
In the top ten are companies like WhatsApp where nearly 1 in 20 phishing-related attacks worldwide. While Facebook, for its part, this year left the list of the most attacked social networks.
For its part, DHL occupies the second position with 14 percent of the phishing attempts, in the fifth position is FedEx, and now accounting for 6 percent of all cases, Maersk and AliExpress debut in the top ten list.
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