I have used indeed for probably 10 years. I used to find great jobs where I stayed with a company for a lengthy amount of time. Over the past year or so, I have noticed an enormous amount of scams or postings that are just phishing. The first job that hired me last year seemed legit, but it slowly took a turn for the worst. During my time working for the first month, I started figuring out they were screwing over their customers. That is an absolute no for me, so I started gathering evidence. Many people started posting online that they were fraudulent or were screwed out of money. We even had an old employee call our line multiple times trying to seek answers about the business to which they were then blocked by a moderator to get them to hush. Out of the blue one day, I could not log into my account. I then received a text message informing me that they were releasing the whole sales team with no explanation. Needles to say, they did not want to pay me what I was owed. I had to threaten to report them to the FBI, BBB, and oust them in multiple other places. I also found out that they had done this to countless other contractors as well. Finally, they paid me something, but it was not the full amount that was due. Then, I got a job as a sales rep for a travel agency. Within two weeks I was promoted from within to be a Sales team lead. Low and behold the day we were all suppose to receive "good news" in a meeting, they shut it down and told us the meeting would have to be rescheduled. All the sudden we could not log on to our emails because a bill was not paid( at least that is what the error code rendered). We were suppose to get paid the next day. Didn't happen. Just so happens they lied to all of us and told us they had a security breach that affected their bank account. Another week goes by we still had no pay and no answers. Needless to say, I never got paid. Neither did 17 other people that worked tirelessly at making things happen for that business. They were reported to the Fraud department of the FBI as well, owing over $40k in unpaid wages. I have had countless jobs I applied for that when you go to schedule an interview, it is not an interview. It is a sales pitch to get you to purchase something in order to work there. More scams. I know as someone that ran a business at one point, you had to submit your EIN number and business registration paper work to even submit a job on indeed. This should be done before a business can even post a job posting, not after. That is why you can apply for a job and then poof, they posting and the company disappear out of no where when you go back to look. This is absolutely ridiculous at the places that have ultimately ended up stealing my information off of my resume where I get scammy calls and email from foreign email addresses just because I submitted a job application. So much so, I have gotten a burner number and an alt email just for applying for jobs. This is crazy. And I am well aware that there are a lot of "ghost" postings now. That should not be allowed. Indeed is turning into Zip recruiter, home of job scams and fraud. On top of that, half the time I get sent jobs to my email that have already expired or I am not licensed for. Do better Indeed.FYI to remote job searchers: do not put your primary email or phone number on your resumes. If they ask you to send an email rather than clicking reply, it is most likely a scam. If they automatically hire you without an interview, it is a scam. If you are asked to pay something in order to work for them, it is either a pyramid scheme or a scam. If they offer ridiculous pay for a seemly easy job, it is a scam. If they make you fill out some weird survey on a website, they are probably just collecting data on you. Most of these places won't even send your a rejection notice. I could go on and on.
