What happens when people looking for work become targets for organized fraud?

In this episode of Scam Rangers, Ayelet Biger-Levin speaks with Jay Jones, known as The Profiler, an investigator exposing fake job postings, fraudulent recruiters, and hijacked professional identities.

After being laid off from an advertising job, Jay encountered a fake résumé-writing operation targeting job seekers. Instead of looking away, he began following the threads. What started as one investigation became a one-man mission to expose the networks using fake opportunities to steal money, personal information, and access to professional accounts.

Today, Jay says he has helped get nearly 60,000 fake job listings removed, most from LinkedIn and some from Tea, and has flagged more than 7,000 scam profiles. His work has recently been featured by The Wall Street Journal, Fox News Radio, and Bloomberg.

Together, Ayelet and Jay explore the growing job-scam ecosystem, from fake résumé writers and “LinkedIn optimization” offers to fake recruiters, hijacked profiles, and impersonated company pages. They discuss why profile age, mutual connections, verification badges, and polished language are not always enough to establish trust.

Jay Jones, known as The Profiler, turned his own experience with job-search fraud into a mission to expose employment scams at scale. He investigates fake job postings, recruiter impersonation, professional-profile takeovers, and fraudulent companies targeting job seekers.

Learn more about Jay’s work: https://www.theprofiler.org/

Recent coverage:

The Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/tech/the-vigilante-whos-taking-down-recruitment-scammers-one-fake-job-ad-at-a-time-e441b100

Fox News Radio: https://radio.foxnews.com/2026/10/02/laid-off-to-scam-hunter-how-one-man-takes-on-fake-job-listings/

Bloomberg This Weekend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I591wG6jB9E

Ayelet Biger-Levin is the Founder and CEO of RangersAI and the host of Scam Rangers, a podcast exploring the human side of scams and the people working to protect consumers from financial and emotional harm.

Through her work at RangersAI and her advisory for the Global Anti-Scam Alliance and Stop Scams Alliance, Ayelet works with financial institutions and industry leaders to advance a more human-centered approach to scam prevention.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayelet-biger-levin/

To learn more about RangersAI: https://www.rangersai.com/

Scam signals exist across telecom networks, messaging platforms, and financial institutions. Why aren’t they translating into stronger protection?

In this episode of Scam Rangers, Ayelet Biger-Levin speaks with Ian Matthews, founder and CEO of Strata Labs and former founder and CEO of WMC Global, about the limits of message filtering, the changing role of carriers and technology platforms, and the intelligence banks could use to intervene earlier.

Ian explains what reported messages reveal about scammers and their targets, and why getting those signals to financial institutions could help prevent losses before money moves.

• Why scam messages still get through network filters.
• How RCS and iMessage are changing visibility and protection.
• What reported messages reveal and how banks could use that intelligence.
• The barriers to sharing signals across industries.
• How AI is accelerating scams and the need for stronger collaboration.

Ian Matthews leads Strata Labs, a strategic advisory focused on telecommunications, cybersecurity, and AI. Previously, he founded and led WMC Global, connecting telecom threat intelligence with the organizations working to protect consumers.

Ayelet Biger-Levin is the Founder and CEO of RangersAI and the host of Scam Rangers, a podcast exploring the human side of scams and the people working to protect consumers from financial and emotional harm.

Through her work at RangersAI and her advisory for the Global Anti-Scam Alliance and Stop Scams Alliance, Ayelet works with financial institutions and industry leaders to advance a more human-centered approach to scam prevention.

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Scammers have made calls, texts, and messaging platforms central to the way they reach and manipulate victims. And as scams become more targeted and move across multiple channels, the challenge is no longer simply blocking spam or stopping robocalls.

In this episode of Scam Rangers, Ayelet Biger-Levin sits down with Jaime Zetterstrom, VP of Product & Innovation at Somos, to explore the role of the telecom industry in fighting scams—and the difficult balance between protecting consumers, preserving privacy, and keeping communications open.

Jaime explains why modern scams are increasingly “surgical,” how criminals move between platforms to evade detection, and why collaboration between telecom providers, financial institutions, regulators, and consumers is becoming essential.

They also explore a bigger consequence of the scam epidemic: the erosion of trust. When people stop answering unknown calls or trusting messages, legitimate businesses, banks, healthcare providers, and other organizations lose an important way to reach them.

Rebuilding that trust, Jaime says, may happen one call and one message at a time.

• Why telecom is at the center of many scam journeys
• How scams have evolved from high-volume spam to more targeted, cross-platform attacks
• Why stopping scam communications is more complicated than simply blocking suspicious calls or messages
• What telecom providers are already doing to combat fraudulent traffic
• How banks and telecom providers can share signals to disrupt scams earlier
• Why consumer reporting matters—and why consumers need a better feedback loop
• How scams are damaging trust in calls and messages
• The opportunity to create more trusted communication between legitimate brands and consumers
• Why Jaime believes scams are, at their core, an identity problem

Fighting scams isn't only about stopping a bad call or message. It's also about protecting the trust that allows people and legitimate organizations to communicate.

Rebuilding that trust will require collaboration across industries—and will happen one call and one message at a time.

Through her work at RangersAI and her advisory for the Global Anti-Scam Alliance and Stop Scams Alliance, Ayelet works with financial institutions and industry leaders to advance a more human-centered approach to scam prevention.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayelet-biger-levin/

To learn more about RangersAI: https://www.rangersai.com/