Each week, FP Weekly members receive a practical and cutting-edge checklist of issues to consider, action steps to take, and goals to accomplish to ensure you remain on the top of your game when it comes to workplace relations and employment law compliance. This week we provide you a checklist of items to consider when it comes to avoiding the new breed of workplace scams that have blossomed given the rise of remote and hybrid work over the last few years.
Understanding the New Trends
Workplace scams have been around long before work-from-home became a popular trend, but they have certainly accelerated in the last three years. The very nature of WFH or hybrid work leads to particular situations and loopholes that can be exploited by unscrupulous parties looking to take advantage of the unique conditions at play. Given this shift in the modern workplace, there are four specific cons that have exploded of late that you should familiarize yourself with if your business has adopted the WFH model in whole or in part.
Employers Getting Scammed By Fake Applicants
The most troubling new scam was recently called out by the FBI. According to federal criminal authorities, scammers are using a combination of deepfakes* and stolen Personally Identifiable Information (PII) when applying for a variety of remote work and work-at-home positions. If that person gets hired under a false identity, they will have security clearance to obtain company logins, passwords, accounts, and…
