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"Laid Off to Scam Hunter: How One Man Takes On Fake Job Listings"
Jay Jones — The Profiler — appears on Fox News Radio to discuss the fake job epidemic targeting American workers and the investigative work behind 58,846+ fake job removals from LinkedIn.
Listen on Fox News Radio →Bloomberg News Interview — Jay Jones, The Profiler
Jay Jones — The Profiler — speaks with Bloomberg News about the fake job epidemic targeting American workers and the investigative operation behind 58,846+ documented removals from LinkedIn.
Watch on YouTube →"The Vigilante Taking Down Job Scammers"
For job seekers, fraud has become a massive problem. Enter: The Profiler. He's a self-proclaimed crimefighter with a mission to root out online scams and fake job ads. WSJ's Lindsay Ellis reports on The Profiler's origin story and explains why the current labor market is ripe for scammers. Imani Moise hosts.
Listen on WSJ.com →"The Vigilante Who's Taking Down Recruitment Scammers, One Fake Job Ad at a Time"
He calls himself The Profiler, and he has made it his mission to root out the bane of job seekers everywhere. The Wall Street Journal covers The Profiler's work documenting and dismantling LinkedIn's fake job epidemic.
Read on WSJ.com →"Fake Job Ads Are Everywhere. This Internet Vigilante Has Removed 60,000 of Them."
Entrepreneur's Sherin Shibu profiles The Profiler — a 39-year-old job seeker turned internet vigilante hunting down fake job ads and the scammers behind them, with 60,000 removals documented.
Read on Entrepreneur →"When Opportunity Becomes a Trap: Inside the Job Scam Economy"
Jay joins host Ayelet Biger-Levin, Founder and CEO of RangersAI, to break down the job scam economy: fake resume writers, fake recruiters, hijacked profiles, impersonated company pages, and why verification badges and mutual connections are not enough to establish trust.
Listen Now →"They were looking for work — but found a scam instead."
National coverage of The Profiler's investigative findings on the scale of fake job fraud across LinkedIn — featuring documented case data and protective guidance for job seekers.
Read Coverage →"LinkedIn Job Scams: How Fake Recruiters Steal Money and Trust"
Jay joins Erin West on the STOLEN podcast to expose the full job scam playbook — from fake recruiters flooding "Open to Work" profiles to how scammers embed fake jobs inside real company pages, why ATS-beating claims are a red flag, and why this is a national security threat, not just fraud.
Listen Now →"Job Recruiter Scams"
Jay joins host Chris Parker on the Easy Prey Podcast to break down the anatomy of job recruiter scams — how fake recruiters operate on LinkedIn, what makes job seekers vulnerable, and the investigative methods behind thousands of documented removals.
Listen Now →"The Scammer Pipeline: Exposing the True Scale of Recruitment Fraud"
Jay joins host Karisse Hendrick to break down the "Scammer Pipeline" — a three-tiered fraud lifecycle from quick resume harvesting to long-term identity theft — and the psychology of "Layoff PTSD" that scammers exploit in vulnerable job seekers.
Listen Now →"I've gotten thousands of fake LinkedIn profiles removed. Here's what I learned."
Jay Jones writes for Indicator on the investigative methods, red flags, and platform dynamics behind tens of thousands of successful LinkedIn takedowns.
Read Coverage →"How I Got 37,104 Fake Jobs and 7,000 Fake Profiles Off LinkedIn"
Jay joins cohosts Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter and Peter Zollman of AIM Group to dig into an issue that touches almost every job board: fake jobs and fake candidate profiles — how to find them, why the industry is vulnerable, and how to get them removed.
Listen Now →"31,000 Fake Jobs Later..."
Jim Stroud talks with Jay about the most common grifts hitting job seekers and employers — ATS "resume score" shakedowns, hijacked recruiter identities, one-way video "interviews" used to clone you, and brand-impostor company pages — plus a verification playbook for HR and TA leaders.
Listen Now →"Fighting the Fakes: Is Your IoT Career Being Targeted by Scammers?"
Jay breaks down how job scammers specifically target IoT and hardware-adjacent careers, the red flags unique to technical hiring pipelines, and what engineers and career-changers can do to protect themselves.
Watch Now →"Understanding and Dealing With Online Job Scams"
Jay walks through how job scammers operate, the red flags they rely on, and what job seekers can do right now to protect their career, their data, and their peace of mind.
Watch Now →Jay "The Profiler" Jones Talks Fake Jobs, Candidates & LinkedIn Fraud
Recruitment expert and career coach Kenneth L. Johnson sits down with Jay to unpack how fake jobs and fake candidates are exploiting LinkedIn's trust — and what job seekers and recruiters can do to spot it.
Watch Now →"The Profiler's Guide to Hacking Your Tech Sales Career SAFELY"
Host Dayvisson DaSilva sits down with Jay to peel back the layers on the scam tactics threatening tech sales job seekers — hijacked profiles, AI-powered "love bombing," and fraudulent offers — plus Jay's Scam Detection 101 checklist.
Listen Now →Episode 11: The Profiler on Job Market Fraud
Jay tells host Rob Whetstine how he became a cyber researcher exposing LinkedIn scammers — a sobering story for anyone job hunting or breaking into cybersecurity, and a look at just how much work goes into every documented takedown.
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