New Marketing Thing?

 

So these are the entry pages to my blog, over the last week.

Netflix.com, USAToday.com, and Simply Hired.com, the past 2 days ...

I rarely get any traffic at all, and as you can see, there's no reason why Netflix or USAToday would take interest in my boring blog 😂 

 I have never commented there - in fact, I don't comment anywhere, but at one fellow blogger's site - nor do I advertise for my blog - and I am not on any other social media.

I also do not use SimplyHired.com for job searches.

I'm hoping it's just a new marketing trend - although I did almost fall for a job scam recently, but it was on Indeed, rather than Simply Hired.  

After a few red flags, I called the real company that they were impersonating, versus the email/phone number provided in their email's signature line.

The real company said they were just becoming aware of this scam, several applicants had called them over various types of jobs that aren't available, and that they had used real HR names and were even using a Microsoft Teams link with their name to impersonate them.

I even received this email from the legitimate company, through Indeed, after I called them, as well as I reported the fake job to Indeed ....

Indeed Help advised me to change all passwords to Indeed, Microsoft Teams, and Gmail.

I did follow the Teams link prior to calling them, unfortunately, and after chatting with someone pretended to be a legitimate person in HR at this company (no video) to set up an interview time - I became super suspicious.

So I set up an interview time just to not let on, blocked them, Googled the real  HR phone number for this company versus what was in their signature line, and then called the actual company who verified it wasn't legitimate, and then reported the job to Indeed.

I was going to write a post on what to look for, soon, regarding job scams, because this is apparently rampant on these job sites now, and they're getting better at it.  

However, this situation is most likely just a new marketing trend, this week, for entry pages, so that you follow the link to their site. 😉

But in the unlikely chance that it's not - and it  is related to the job scam - the SimplyHired.com one being the outlier and suspect - be careful, out there ... if something seems off, it probably is.