Employment and recruitment scams

Recruitment scams targeting candidates and job seekers are becoming increasingly common across email, text messaging, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and other messaging and job platforms. Recruitment should create opportunity, not put people at risk. We encourage you to remain alert and protect yourself when responding to unexpected recruitment communications.

These fraudulent messages often present an appealing job opportunity to gain your trust and prompt you to take an action that could expose your personal or financial information. They may also ask you to send money, purchase products or services, or open a link or attachment.

What to look for

• The message is unexpected or comes from a sender you do not recognize. Check whether the email came from Gmail, Yahoo or another consumer account, or whether a text came from an unfamiliar phone number.
• The message was sent broadly or to a group rather than directly and individually to you.
• The sender requests sensitive personal or financial information or asks you to make a payment.
• The compensation, benefits or other details of the opportunity appear unrealistic or too good to be true.
• The opportunity does not align with the executive search, professional recruitment, interim, consulting or talent advisory work ZRG provides.
• The message includes an unexpected link or attachment. Do not click or open it.

How to protect yourself

• Do not engage with or respond to a sender you believe may be impersonating ZRG.
• Use caution with unfamiliar senders and unsolicited emails, LinkedIn messages, texts or other communications.
• Do not provide personal or financial information to someone whose identity you have not verified.
• Block the sender and report the account to LinkedIn, WhatsApp or the platform through which you received the message.

At ZRG, recruitment is built on trust. We conduct our recruitment processes professionally and in ways that can be verified. We will never ask you to pay to be considered for an opportunity.

If someone claiming to represent ZRG contacts you and the message appears suspicious, stop communicating with the sender and block their contact details. Promptly report suspicious or phishing-related communications to the platform where you received them.

To verify a communication or report suspected fraud, please forward the suspicious message to infosec@zrgpartners.com.