Recruitment phishing for jobs?
Hey, I work in recruitment, but i’m not looking for a job and don’t have any applications or open to work stuff anywhere.
Been contacted by 1 company, looked legit, replied to the email, clicked on the link to their LinkedIn (which i know is legit as have spoken to this recruiter before). Then, I get sent a PDF with some rough job outlines from this recruiter.
Then, about an hour after I get a similar email from a different company. Now alarm bells go off, I check the emails and they’re the company names.recruitment@gmail.com. So pretty sure it’s a scam.
Immediately blocked and forwarded to phishing crime stuff for government (UK based). I didn’t enter any details and just clicked on the link to the LinkedIn page.
I didn’t disconnect from Wifi as didn’t know to do this. Now what do I do?
Posted Apr 1, 2026, 8:17 PM UTC