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Job scams reached 95% of job seekers in 2026. CoBlack sources only from validated employer career pages and ATS feeds, so you apply to real jobs.
· July 23, 2026 · 2 min read
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Ninety-five percent have seen one
Ninety-five percent of job seekers have now seen a job that was not real. That figure comes from Monster’s 2026 Job Scam Report, a survey of 884 workers fielded in early March, which also found that 53 percent say they were directly targeted. The Better Business Bureau counted 23,234 employment scam reports to its Scam Tracker in 2025, roughly double the 11,748 logged the year before. The Federal Trade Commission puts the money lost to job scams at 501 million dollars in 2024, up from 90 million in 2020.
Where the fakes live
The fraud does not spread evenly. In the Monster report, job seekers named job boards (51 percent) and professional networking platforms (43 percent) among the places they met suspicious listings, alongside email and text. These are open surfaces. Anyone can post a role, borrow a company’s name, and route a hopeful applicant into a fake interview that harvests a Social Security number or a bank routing number. The same openness that makes a board easy to search makes it easy to poison.
Not a ghost job
A ghost job is a real employer’s listing that leads nowhere, kept up to pool resumes or signal growth that is not coming. A scam is a step darker: there is no employer at all, only someone impersonating one. Both waste a candidate’s effort. Only the scam is trying to take something.
Sourced, not scraped
CoBlack does not draw from job boards or networking feeds. It sources only from validated employer career pages and ATS feeds, the systems real companies use to hire, and Auto Apply submits each application server-side. A posting that never came from a verified employer never enters the pipeline, so it is never one you apply to. You do not have to become an expert at spotting a fake. You just never meet one.
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