For unscrupulous recruiters, ploying prospective workers with false employment offers in the United States is an easy way to steal months’ worth of wages from individuals, families, or entire communities.

 

Fake Jobs For Sale: Analyzing Fraud and Advancing Transparency in U.S. Labor Recruitment is a scathing new report that sheds light on the size and scope of the problem by examining only a fraction of cases.

 

Currently, it’s virtually impossible for a person to corroborate whether a U.S. job offer is real. Through increased education and outreach, governmental initiatives, and digital tools like Contratados.org, CDM’s “Yelp++ For Migrant Workers,” we can fight fraud throughout the recruitment process and shift the balance of power.