Beware of Recruiter Scams on Third-Party Websites and Applications
Last updated August 20, 2025
billups LLC (“billups”) is deeplycommitted to attracting top talent to join our dynamic, industry-leadingorganization. Job seekers should know that the careers page of billups is thesafest and most reliable method of applying for an open position with thecompany. However, job seekers that use the services of third-party recruiters,job posting aggregators or other intermediaries should be aware that billupshas received one or more reports of scammers who impersonate billups recruiterson third-party websites and applications. They reportedly use this ploy as ameans of gaining access to the personal information of job seekers.
Such impersonators are unaffiliated withbillups and are not authorized agents or representatives of billups. Thewrongdoers reportedly lure unsuspecting job seekers with fictitious informationregarding purported employment opportunities with billups. They post thismisinformation to third party employment websites or applications. Once thewrongdoer(s) establish contact with a job seeker, they may pose as a billupsrecruiter or other representative and convey various forms of misinformation,such as unauthorized job offers, position descriptions and other fictitiousemployment information. The wrongdoers may then request the job seeker todisclose his or her personal information, such as name, email address andsocial security number, which the scammers can then use to commit identitytheft and other forms of fraud. The scammers may also request the job seeker tomake bogus payments (e.g., application fees) in connection with employmentservices.
Job seekers should remain vigilant incombating the threats posed by recruiter scams. While it is difficult toeliminate these risks entirely, listed below are some basic precautionarymeasures that can be taken to reduce the risk:
- Validate the opportunity. Validating the legitimacy of a job opportunity is easy – just visit the careers page on billups’s official website, currently located at: https://www.billups.com/our-company/careers. billups owns and controls this website and updates job postings regularly. If an opportunity you’re considering is not listed on this site, then you should proceed with extra caution.
- Confirm any claimed affiliation with billups. If the individual identifying him/herself as a billups representative, you should confirm they are in fact employed by billups. Feel free to contact billups’s Head of Talent Acquisition for this purpose. You can also check the individual’s Linked-In profile to see if: (a) billups is listed as his or her employer; and (b) the hyperlink to billups’s website actually takes you to billups’s corporate site (located at https://www.billups.com). While a scammer can easily fabricate this type of information online, they do not necessarily go to the trouble of doing so. Internal inconsistencies in the individual’s own information is a clear warning signal that something may be amiss.
- Check hyperlinks. It is best practice to confirm that any hyperlinks labeled with the billups brand actually link to billups’s website. This can be done by scrolling over the hyperlink, which will cause the actual URL to be displayed. If the URL does not include the billups.com domain, then this should raise a red flag and you should be suspicious of a potential scam. Similarly, emails that do not originate from an @billups.com address should be viewed with skepticism. Know that scammers may use domains that are similar to billups.com (e.g., Bill-ups.com) in order to trick job seekers into believing that they are authorized representatives of billups.
- Trust your gut. Last but not least, using your common sense and intuition to detect if something just doesn’t seem right can often be your best tool for spotting scams. Ask yourself the following questions:
- Are your communications with the purported recruiter consistent with what you’d expect in dealings with a professional organization?
- Are there typographical or grammatical errors in communications?
- Are you being asked to make a payment of any kind (billups does not impose any fees or other expenses on job applicants)?
- Do things seem to be progressing at an abnormally accelerated pace?
These are all red flags that should giveyou pause and cause you to apply heightened scrutiny.
Finally, billups has a strong interest in protecting the accuracy and integrity of its recruiting and other corporate resources online. Please report any suspicious communications you receive regarding employment opportunities with billups to our IT security group at security@billups.com