Recruiters Spam Vulnerable Job Seekers in Public Hiring Threads
Job seekers posting in public "Who wants to be hired?" forums receive mass recruiter spam that masquerades as genuine opportunities, causing emotional harm to people in already fragile situations. With 1,896 upvotes this resonates widely. Platform-level tools to authenticate recruiter intent and filter irrelevant outreach are absent.
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