Employment-fraud scam trend shows repeat early-morning and Monday peaks against job seekers
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Scam reporting in August 2025 showed employment fraud as the top category, with messages peaking on a daily and weekly schedule and raising credential-theft and financial-loss risk for job seekers. The trend also showed a shift toward group chats, making the lures feel more legitimate.
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Google reports employment fraud as Android's top scam category
Technical Analysis UpdateGoogle said its August 2025 analysis of user-submitted reports found employment fraud was the most prevalent scam category, using fake job opportunities to steal personal and financial information; the same analysis said scam messages increasingly arrived in group chats to seem more legitimate and followed a distinct daily-and-weekly pattern with peaks around 5 a.m. PT, between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. PT, and on Mondays.
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