That LinkedIn job offer might be a scam — and here's how to tell
LinkedIn is supposed to be the professional network. The trusted one. The one where you don't have to worry about Nigerian prince emails and too-good-to-be-true offers. And yet, fake job postings and recruitment scams on LinkedIn have exploded in the last two years — and in India specifically, where millions of fresh graduates and IT professionals are actively job hunting, the scam volume is alarming.
Scammers have gotten genuinely sophisticated. They create fake company pages with stolen logos. They impersonate real HR managers at Infosys, TCS, Wipro, Accenture, and other major Indian employers. They post jobs that look identical to real listings. And by the time you realize something is wrong, you've either handed over personal documents, paid a "registration fee," or had your data harvested for identity fraud.
We ran the question through ChatGPT to get a structured breakdown of warning signs — and then we added the India-specific context that makes this problem different here. Here's the complete guide.
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