I Responded to One of Those Spam Texts from a “Recruiter”—then Took the Job.

https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/indeed-job-recruiter-text-message-scam.html
FUTURE OF WORK
Issue #461
1 Oct 2025
I’ve been talking about ‘job candidate fraud’ for a little while so this fascinating piece of participant observation underlined that fraud can go both ways. Fundamentally, this may even by an AI story, as it seems that data labelling / reinforcement learning - which is tantamount to getting a lot of humans to do a lot of clicking - may have been the opportunity for the hustle. Times of transformation will produce economic opportunities, legal or otherwise…