Jay Jones has tracked down nearly 60,000 fake job postings and flagged roughly 7,000 scam profiles on LinkedIn, work detailed in a recent Wall Street Journal profile that calls him The Profiler. His story is not just compelling, but it also reveals how sophisticated this problem has gotten, even for people who consider themselves careful.

There's a small industry built around a simple pitch: pay a fee, upload your resume, and let AI apply to hundreds or even thousands of jobs while you focus elsewhere. Tools like LoopCV, Perplexity, and Jobright promise exactly that, auto-submitting applications across dozens of job boards with no manual effort. It sounds like what an exhausted job seeker needs. According to Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait, it's making the problem worse.

A Wall Street Journal investigation published in August traces how a single North Korean operation used stolen identities, AI, and paid American accomplices to land remote IT jobs at U.S. companies, generating what investigators estimate could be hundreds of millions of dollars a year for the regime. It sounds like an outrageous spy story, but it's also a preview of exactly the kind of scrutiny every remote job seeker is about to face during their next interview.

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