Notice of Potential Job Offer Scam
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (“HMH”) has learned that some job seekers have received fraudulent employment offers or other recruitment emails from an entity or individual posing as HMH or our Chief People Officer. Some of these phony job offers involve interviews via Skype or the like. The sender(s) of these fraudulent employment offers may request personal information or cash to purchase equipment, such as a laptop, in support of the false recruitment process. HMH is taking the necessary steps to investigate this matter further.
Ways to Distinguish a Legitimate Job Offer from a Fraudulent Job Offer
HMH does not present employment offers via email. HMH never requests passport details, financial information, or money from job seekers. Individuals who are successful in securing an offer of employment from HMH are always first required to go through a formal recruitment process including an interview with a member of our recruitment team. If you have any questions as to the legitimacy of an interview request you have received, please contact HMH’s recruitment team at recruiting@hmhco.com.
A quick way to identify fraudulent job-related emails is to check the sender’s email address. Legitimate emails from HMH employees end in “@hmhco.com”. Some recent illegitimate emails have originated from email addresses that are similar (i.e., hr@hmhco.us.com) or email addresses using public domains (e.g., @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @aol.com). Be aware that fraudsters may use photographs and names of real people at the company, and some fraudsters create fake websites, contracts and marketing materials that look very similar to the company’s genuine website, contracts or materials. HMH is taking action to shut down false addresses and websites as soon as we are made aware of them, but often we can do so only after the fraudsters have contacted many job seekers.
Actions to Take if You Feel You May Have Been the Recipient of a Phony Job Offer
- Report it to the FBI’s Internet Crimes Complaint Center at www.IC3.gov. The IC3 was created by the FBI to aggregate criminal Internet events in order to analyze patterns and prosecute related scams.
- Report it to all job search websites where you have registered.
- Report it to local law enforcement.
Notice of Potential Job Offer Scam
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (“HMH”) has learned that some job seekers have received fraudulent employment offers or other recruitment emails from an entity or individual posing as HMH or our Chief People Officer. Some of these phony job offers involve interviews via Skype or the like. The sender(s) of these fraudulent employment offers may request personal information or cash to purchase equipment, such as a laptop, in support of the false recruitment process. HMH is taking the necessary steps to investigate this matter further.
Ways to Distinguish a Legitimate Job Offer from a Fraudulent Job Offer
HMH does not present employment offers via email. HMH never requests passport details, financial information, or money from job seekers. Individuals who are successful in securing an offer of employment from HMH are always first required to go through a formal recruitment process including an interview with a member of our recruitment team. If you have any questions as to the legitimacy of an interview request you have received, please contact HMH’s recruitment team at recruiting@hmhco.com.
A quick way to identify fraudulent job-related emails is to check the sender’s email address. Legitimate emails from HMH employees end in “@hmhco.com”. Some recent illegitimate emails have originated from email addresses that are similar (i.e., hr@hmhco.us.com) or email addresses using public domains (e.g., @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @aol.com). Be aware that fraudsters may use photographs and names of real people at the company, and some fraudsters create fake websites, contracts and marketing materials that look very similar to the company’s genuine website, contracts or materials. HMH is taking action to shut down false addresses and websites as soon as we are made aware of them, but often we can do so only after the fraudsters have contacted many job seekers.
Actions to Take if You Feel You May Have Been the Recipient of a Phony Job Offer
- Report it to the FBI’s Internet Crimes Complaint Center at www.IC3.gov. The IC3 was created by the FBI to aggregate criminal Internet events in order to analyze patterns and prosecute related scams.
- Report it to all job search websites where you have registered.
- Report it to local law enforcement.
Notice of Potential Job Offer Scam
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (“HMH”) has learned that some job seekers have received fraudulent employment offers or other recruitment emails from an entity or individual posing as HMH or our Chief People Officer. Some of these phony job offers involve interviews via Skype or the like. The sender(s) of these fraudulent employment offers may request personal information or cash to purchase equipment, such as a laptop, in support of the false recruitment process. HMH is taking the necessary steps to investigate this matter further.
Ways to Distinguish a Legitimate Job Offer from a Fraudulent Job Offer
HMH does not present employment offers via email. HMH never requests passport details, financial information, or money from job seekers. Individuals who are successful in securing an offer of employment from HMH are always first required to go through a formal recruitment process including an interview with a member of our recruitment team. If you have any questions as to the legitimacy of an interview request you have received, please contact HMH’s recruitment team at recruiting@hmhco.com.
A quick way to identify fraudulent job-related emails is to check the sender’s email address. Legitimate emails from HMH employees end in “@hmhco.com”. Some recent illegitimate emails have originated from email addresses that are similar (i.e., hr@hmhco.us.com) or email addresses using public domains (e.g., @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @aol.com). Be aware that fraudsters may use photographs and names of real people at the company, and some fraudsters create fake websites, contracts and marketing materials that look very similar to the company’s genuine website, contracts or materials. HMH is taking action to shut down false addresses and websites as soon as we are made aware of them, but often we can do so only after the fraudsters have contacted many job seekers.
Actions to Take if You Feel You May Have Been the Recipient of a Phony Job Offer
- Report it to the FBI’s Internet Crimes Complaint Center at www.IC3.gov. The IC3 was created by the FBI to aggregate criminal Internet events in order to analyze patterns and prosecute related scams.
- Report it to all job search websites where you have registered.
- Report it to local law enforcement.
