How New College Graduates Can Avoid Increasingly Personalized Job Scams

The report warns that recent graduates are being targeted by job-offer phishing scams that impersonate trusted academic contacts to solicit personal and banking information. It outlines common red flags—unsolicited offers, requests for sensitive data, unusually high initial offers, urgency, and vague job details—and recommends verification of sources, protection of personal data, employer research, trusting intuition, and using university career services. It emphasizes security awareness training as a key measure to reduce human risk.