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The hidden, horrifying world behind all those recruitment scam texts

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Those of us receiving the texts aren’t the only victims of these crime syndicates. | Osmancan Gurdogan/Anadolu via Getty Images If you own a cellphone, there’s a good chance you’ve gotten The Text: a random recruiter, sending a friendly message with an incredible job opportunity to make a lot of money for just a little bit of work. If it seems too good to be true, that’s because it is. It’s an employment scam. If it feels like you’re being inundated with these spam texts right now, you aren’t imagining things. There’s been a huge spike in these scams since 2020, and that’s because th...