Job seekers warned over CV theft
Job seekers have been warned to be particularly careful when sending their CVs to employers' websites or online recruitment agencies.
An experiment involving a fake website lured 107 people into submitting their CVs, full of personal information that could have led to identity theft. Of the CVs, 61 contained enough information to apply for a credit card. The experiment was staged during the recent national identity fraud prevention week earlier in October.
It involved a company called iProfile, with the backing of the Police and the Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC), setting up a website for a bogus company called Denis Atlas. The fake firm placed an advert in a national newspaper for a job as an office manager, inviting people to apply by sending in their CVs to the website. Although 107 people did so, a quick search of the website would have shown that it was in fact a fake operation.
