{"id":192607,"date":"2025-10-06T03:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192607\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T03:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:05:07","slug":"my-heart-sank-surging-scams-roil-us-job-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192607\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My heart sank\u2019: Surging scams roil US job hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">WASHINGTON &#8211; After a series of interviews, Ms Nicole Becker was ecstatic to receive a job offer from a sportswear brand. But like many Americans navigating a tough job market, she was soon confronted with a sobering reality \u2013 the recruiter was a scammer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">From fake job listings to fraudsters posing as real recruiters, employment scams are exploding online \u2013 fuelled by a cooling labour market and a boom in generative AI (Gen AI) that experts say has made these schemes more sophisticated than ever. <\/p>\n<p>ScamsEmploymentArtificial IntelligenceAI\/artificial intelligence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON &#8211; After a series of interviews, Ms Nicole Becker was ecstatic to receive a job offer from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,63,99,180],"class_list":["post-192607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}