Wanted to do a little signal boosting here as this recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) news is important. Apparently, there are incredibly sick and devious people out there who have put together fake job recruiting sites targeting our military!

From the September news brief from the FTC:

Service members understand the serious responsibility of enlisting in the armed forces. But some companies may try to take advantage. If you or a loved one is visiting military recruiting Web sites to research or enlist, don’t get the wrong impression. Double check that the military recruiting sites you land on are official Web sites of the U.S. Armed Forces, not ones in disguise made to collect, and sell, your personal information.

According to a settlement just announced by the FTC,Sunkey Publishing, Inc., Fanmail.com, LLC, and associated companies ran online ads and Web sites like army.com and airforceenlist.com. These sites and ads looked like official military recruiting channels. But they weren’t. The FTC says people were tricked into thinking the information they shared would be used only for recruiting purposes. Instead, the companies sold people’s information to post-secondary schools as marketing leads. Even though these websites said they wouldn’t share people’s personal information. What’s more? The FTC says that Sunkey then used the numbers people shared to call them – pretending to be military reps and pitching post-secondary schools as though the schools were endorsed by the U.S. military. Which they weren’t.

Read the full news post here: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2018/09/copycat-recruiting-sites?utm_source=govdelivery to find out how to spot the fakers and report them.