Cybercriminals are capitalizing on America's precarious labor market, with jobseekers being taken advantage of in record numbers in 2025.

According to a new report from McAfee, the results of which were shared with Newsweek , job scams grew more than 1,000 percent between May and late July 2025, making them the fastest-growing fraud category McAfee has tracked over this period.

In a survey conducted by the software company in May, nearly one in three Americans (31 percent) said they had received a fraudulent job offer by text, and 45 percent report they've personally experienced a bogus job search or know someone who has.

Why It Matters

Evidence has increasingly pointed to a hiring slowdown in the U.S., with recent Labor Department reports finding that the economy added far fewer jo

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