Interesting article on the variety of LinkedIn job scams around the world: In India, tech jobs are used as bait because the industry employs millions of people and offers high-paying roles. In Kenya, the recruitment industry is largely unorganized, so scamsters leverage fake personal referrals. In Mexico, bad actors capitalize on the informal nature of the job economy by advertising fake formal roles that carry a promise of security. In Nigeria, scamsters often manage to get LinkedIn users to share their login credentials with the lure of paid work, preying on their desperation amid an especially acute unemployment crisis…
Sounds like the solution is a global PSA that nobody has ever gotten a job through LinkedIn.
well I can’t hop on that bandwagon as I’ve somehow managed to get 2 decent jobs as a result of LinkedIn. over the last decade or so.
last one was 2023 via direct applying in an ad from LI.
This link is basically just a link to and summary of https://restofworld.org/2025/linkedin-job-scams/



