Reporter Ye Yufu / Photographer Zheng Shengwei / Editor-in-Chief News Center Report
Published: 2025/07/14 22:00
Last updated: 2025/07/14 23:21
During the peak internship season in summer vacation, many college students who are about to graduate begin to test the waters in the workplace. But whether you are looking for internships online or seeking full-time jobs, you must be extra careful! Job scams have changed again. Criminals are targeting new graduates of Generation Z who care more about the balance between work and life. Therefore, they are targeting high-salary recruitment, freelance jobs, and working on mobile phones at home. Through online traps, they defraud new graduates of their personal information, or their ID cards and accounts.
Four years of college are about to end in a blink of an eye. Intern Emma seizes her last summer vacation to enter a company for internship, trying to accumulate practical experience before actually entering the workplace.
“When I look for a job in the future, I will give priority to the field where I have interned before. Salaries are in line with the market, supervisors are willing to help juniors, and the working atmosphere is good. For me, it is a good environment.” Emma said.
She not only participates in practical work, but also actively pays attention to job search information. However, when faced with seemingly “high salary and easy” recruitment advertisements, Emma does not believe them easily.
“I will first check the company information and official website, ask seniors or see if there are any reviews on the Internet. If I can’t find any information, I will be suspicious.” Emma shows that Generation Z is highly alert to job scams.
According to a questionnaire survey jointly conducted by a human resources platform and an anti-fraud APP company, data shows that young people of Generation Z value not only salary, but also benefits, team atmosphere, learning opportunities and work fun. Long-term and stable development in a company is not even the main consideration. Therefore, they are particularly easy to be hooked by rhetoric such as “flexible freedom”, “quick promotion”, and “making money with mobile phones at home”.
Senior manager of the job bank, Lin Shu-yu, pointed out that the fraudulent methods have evolved from “high salary and accommodation for going abroad” to “multi-faceted cases”, “membership platform”, “short video cases” and other new forms, which make people hard to guard against.
Associate Professor Wang Po-Chi of the Department of Criminal Justice
at Ming Chuan University reminded that freshmen are often familiar with technology but lack practical experience, and pursue convenient and fast interview processes, such as LINE interviews and video chat admissions, which have become opportunities for fraud.
The survey also found that 50% of the respondents had received job invitations from unfamiliar communication groups or private accounts, and another 20% had been guided to download unknown apps or click on suspicious links; although the number of people being deceived into going abroad or asked to pay a deposit has decreased, the main risk is still to defraud personal information and accounts.
Wang Po-Chi analyzed, “The fraud group values clean financial accounts the most, which is more valuable to them than a sum of money now.”
If freshmen accidentally provide their accounts, they may not only suffer financial losses, but also be involved in crimes. Therefore, experts remind us to follow the principle of “three no’s and one check” when applying for a job, including not paying money, not handing over documents, not believing in the offer easily, and checking the company’s background and legality.
In addition, Wang Po-Chi also suggested that universities should consider including job scam prevention education in the compulsory courses or class meetings in the second semester of the senior year, so that students can have basic risk awareness and recognition before entering the society.
At the critical moment of entering the workplace, how to avoid falling into traps while pursuing dreams has become an important issue for young people of Generation Z to move towards their careers.