Capital One

The Impersonation

The listing wears Capital One's identity convincingly: the navy-and-red logo, the "Capital One" name as poster, and a LinkedIn verified-badge icon sitting next to the job title — the same visual cues a job seeker would expect from the real employer. The role posted is "Administrative Assistant," remote, part-time, based out of Virginia. On its face, it reads like any other corporate listing on the platform.

The first tell is on the listing itself: "Responses managed off LinkedIn." A company the size of Capital One, with an in-house talent acquisition team and an applicant tracking system, has no operational reason to route applicants off-platform for a part-time administrative role. That single line is a routing instruction for the scam, not a hiring practice.

The Scale

This was not a single opportunistic posting. The identical "Administrative Assistant" listing was duplicated and published simultaneously under Capital One's name across at least eleven states — Virginia, Washington, Indiana, Texas, Massachusetts, South Carolina, California, Florida, Oklahoma, Ohio, and New Jersey — each posted "2 days ago" with the same "364 school alumni work here" badge and the same verified-looking icon. That kind of duplication at scale is the signature of an automated posting operation, not a hiring manager filling one seat.

The Redirect

Clicking through takes the applicant to outsourcingworld.site/aa.html — a domain with no affiliation to Capital One whatsoever. The page is dressed as a simple, credible careers landing page: "Capital One," the same job title, and a description promising a "remote team with flexible part-time hours" and the chance to "build valuable administrative skills." The listed responsibilities are deliberately vague — "manage multiple tasks, schedules, and documents" — with "Experience (Optional)," designed to cast the widest possible net for applicants rather than filter for a specific skill set.

The page's call to action instructs applicants to send their resume directly to hr@bunyarecruitment.site — a third domain, again with no connection to Capital One's real corporate infrastructure. Any job seeker who follows the instructions hands over their name, contact information, address, and work history directly to the operators behind the scam, completely outside LinkedIn's application safeguards and outside anything Capital One's actual recruiting team ever sees.

Why It Works

Capital One is a recognizable, trusted financial brand with real hiring volume, which makes a listing under its name inherently more credible to a job seeker than one from an unknown company. The "verified" badge, the alumni-connection badge, and the polished off-platform landing page are all borrowed legitimacy — none of it verified, all of it convincing enough to survive a quick glance. The "Responses managed off LinkedIn" framing does double duty: it explains away the redirect and moves the interaction to a channel with no platform-level protections.

Status

Evidence has been documented across the original LinkedIn postings, the off-platform landing page, and the resume-collection endpoint. Following escalation to LinkedIn Trust & Safety and outreach to Capital One's brand protection team, the listings were removed and this file is now closed.