A coordinated scheme to harvest resume data from professional job seekers under the cover of a fake staffing network.
The Tenstar Resume Network was a coordinated criminal operation built around a single objective: extracting resume data from professional job seekers. Unlike a single fake employer, Tenstar operated as a network — multiple fake staffing entities presenting themselves as legitimate placement firms, each running fake job listings to capture applicant data.
The operation was designed to be persistent. Where individual fake listings could be reported and removed, a networked structure allowed the operators to rotate entities, reuse assets, and continue harvesting even as individual nodes were taken down.
Fake staffing company pages were constructed on LinkedIn with enough surface-level credibility to pass casual review. They had logos, follower counts, company descriptions, and in some cases, fabricated employee profiles. Job listings posted under these entities solicited applicants in high-demand professional categories — finance, HR, marketing, technology.
Applicants submitted resumes and personal information. In some cases, applicants were advanced through fake interview processes to increase the volume of data extracted before the interaction was abandoned. The data — names, contact information, employment history, education, skills — had commercial value in bulk.
The Profiler identified the network structure by mapping shared assets, behavioral patterns, and entity relationships across multiple fake company pages. Documentation was compiled into a coordinated report package targeting the network as a whole rather than its individual components. LinkedIn removals followed systematically.
The Tenstar investigation established that employment fraud was not limited to isolated bad actors — it was being run by organized, coordinated networks with persistent infrastructure. This finding shaped the investigative approach for all subsequent cases and became central to The Profiler's public reporting on the systematic nature of the threat.