What Your Resume Reveals
Most job seekers put far too much personal information on their resume. Scammers harvest these details to:
- ●Open credit cards in your name
- ●Create fake identity documents
- ●Target you with highly personalized phishing attacks
Information You Should Remove
Full home address — City and state is enough. Scammers do not need your street address to consider you for a job.
Personal phone number — Use a Google Voice number for job applications and forward it to your real phone.
References with contact details — "References available on request" is standard. Listing your references exposes them too.
Date of birth — Never include this. No legitimate employer needs your DOB on a resume.
The Fake Job Application Attack
Some "job postings" exist purely to harvest resumes. The tell: they ask for an unusual amount of personal information upfront, or the application is a Google Form rather than an ATS system.
Resume Sanitization Checklist
- ✅emove full address (keep city/state only)
- ✅se a secondary phone number
- ✅emove references
- ✅ever include DOB, SSN, or ID numbers
- ✅can every job post at verijob.app before applying