People with fraudulent credit cards are now attempting to purchase resume access and job postings through job board sites in an attempt to gain more people’s information and steal their identities.

“Talent Zoo has seen a significant rise in the past month of fraudulent charges trying to purchase resume packages,” said Michelle Shell, online sales manger for Talent Zoo.

“Luckily, we have a very strict review policy for all charges that come through our system to protect our customer base and insure ID theft does not occur at Talent Zoo.”

All of the charges that Talent Zoo has noticed have come from Nigeria, Malaysia and surrounding areas claiming to be individuals and companies from the UK.

After further research, Talent Zoo found that a large number of computers were donated to these areas, but the hard drives still had personal information on them. The recipients of the donated equipment then hacked the computers to obtain personal information, and then to use that to gain access to others’ information through job board resume access.

“Access to a job board’s resume database is a goldmine for ID scammers,” says Joe Folan, Marketing Manager at Talent Zoo. “A multitude of personal information can be obtained through a person’s resume. Many people don’t realize that in addition to being cautious of what information they put on their resume, they also have to be cautious of the job boards they submit to and to what jobs they respond.”

“Talent Zoo is very thorough in making sure there are no occurrences of false job postings, pyramid schemes, or resume access given to those with intentions of committing ID theft. We encourage other job boards to be as careful when selling their products and services,” said Folan.

READ: Talent Zoo, the Leading Online Job Board, Protects Customers against Emerging Trend of ID Theft

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