Penn Medicine

The Impersonation

Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System, is a verified LinkedIn account with 187,000 followers and more than 10,000 employees — exactly the kind of institutional weight that makes a job listing under its name feel unimpeachable. Twenty “Data Entry Specialist” postings carried its verified badge, the University of Pennsylvania shield, and a fabricated “49 school alumni work here” social-proof badge.

The Scale

A single search for “data entry specialist” under Penn Medicine's account returned exactly 20 results, spanning New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and more — all fraudulent. One listing alone recorded 137 applicants, all in a single day. Scaled across 187,000 followers, the exposure was significant.

The Redirect

Every listing routed applicants to submit a resume and cover letter to talents@recruitsource.site — a domain with no affiliation to Penn Medicine or the University of Pennsylvania. The domain itself resolves through a generic ad-redirect page — “Related Searches: Immediate Hiring for Older Workers, Online Job Board Software” — the unmistakable signature of disposable spam infrastructure, not a healthcare employer's applicant pipeline.

The Proof

A direct search of Penn Medicine's own official careers site turns up no “Data Entry Specialist” role at all — confirming these 20 listings never existed inside Penn Medicine's actual hiring systems. They were fabricated entirely on LinkedIn, riding the credibility of a verified badge that had nothing to do with the real institution.

Status

Following The Profiler's investigation and reporting, all 20 fraudulent listings were removed from LinkedIn. This file is closed.