Fake Job Ads Are Everywhere. This Internet Vigilante Has Removed 60,000 of Them.
This 59-year-old job-seeker is hunting down fake job ads and the scammers behind them.
In a national feature published on Entrepreneur.com, reporter Sherin Shibu documented how Jay Jones — a 59-year-old job seeker who calls himself The Profiler — transformed a personal discovery into the most comprehensive independent investigation of employment fraud in the United States.
The article traced how Jones identified and reported nearly 60,000 fake job postings, finding that the vast majority were concentrated on LinkedIn alongside more than 7,000 allegedly fraudulent profiles. What began as self-protection became a systematic operation to protect workers everywhere.
The Entrepreneur feature reached millions of small business owners, entrepreneurs, and hiring professionals — amplifying The Profiler's message beyond the traditional job-seeker audience and into the leadership community responsible for building and protecting workforces.
"Jay Jones, who calls himself 'The Profiler,' investigates suspicious listings and recruiter profiles, then reports them to platforms and companies. Jones says he has helped identify and remove nearly 60,000 fake job postings. The vast majority were on LinkedIn, alongside more than 7,000 allegedly fraudulent profiles."
— Sherin Shibu, Entrepreneur · September 24, 2026The Entrepreneur feature placed The Profiler's work in the context of a systemic problem that reaches across every industry — fake listings that don't just waste job seekers' time, but harvest personal data, steal identities, and route victims into elaborate financial fraud schemes. The article highlighted the scale of the operation and the absence of any institutional response that matches it.
For the business community that reads Entrepreneur, the message was clear: the employment fraud problem is not contained to job seekers. It threatens the integrity of the entire hiring ecosystem that companies depend on.
Fake Job Ads Are Everywhere. This Internet Vigilante Has Removed 60,000 of Them.
Entrepreneur.com · By Sherin Shibu · September 24, 2026
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