You are correct! The number if employment scams has skyrocketed in the past two years. The surprising part is how sophisticated and time consuming they are. Even the well known job platforms are full of them. I have had three different job offers in the last year resulting from a minimum of 3 or 4 interviews that each lasted 30 min to an hour. On this last one. I went in eyes wide open and picked up on a small detail that a couple of years ago, I would never have even raised an eyebrow. I decided to hang in the process just to see how far they would go. Their English has improved, the interview questions actually make you think, the offer letters are more genuine, they wanted me to do a w-4 (that's a first), and just an overall more realistic experience. It was when they asked me for the name of my bank before I received a contract or offer to sign that I was sure it was a scam. I still am playing along, collecting evidence and IP addresses. Several years ago, I cashed a check for mystery shopping and actually got arrested for it. I wont go into those details but I will say that even though the bank it was written on verified the funds were written to me and I had a name and a number I found on my own, it did not matter and I ended up with a conviction because I could not afford a paid attorney. The fraudster then had found me on Career Builder and reached out because my resume status was actively seeking employment. I did everything correctly, or so I thought. Needless to say, I will never fall prey to another scam and if a company or persons gets mad at me for trying to prevent that from happening, then that company and I are not suited for one another. Thats tough to do especially if you have been out of work any length of time! Does anyone happen to know if theres any way to get these scams investigated while they are ongoing and still in contact with you? Just in the time it took me to write this, I just received another message from this posing scammer. They need shut down and need to be afraid of the consequences. Right now there are none because innocent people like me end up taking the fall simply because they end up in possession of a fraudulent check etc.