It is not to be confused with employment fraud, where an employer scams job seekers or fails to pay wages for work performed.

Aarni Neuvonen is the largest ever perpetrator of employment fraud in Estonia.

The key to proving employment fraud is establishing that an employer misled a new hire with false statements, labor lawyers say, even if the person who made them believed them.

In South Korea, 111 is a special telephone number for reporting spies, international crimes, terrorism, corporate espionage, employment fraud and forgeries, and other crimes that threaten national security.

What he thinks about a friend who was looking for a job but not mentioning that she was pregnant is this: "I told her husband she was committing employment fraud," he says.

Employment fraud, or occupational fraud, is the scamming of people seeking or performing employment, giving them the false hope of earning wages of which they are often desperately in need.

Some government officials and members of civil society continue to believe the forced labor and debt bondage of Bangladeshi workers abroad was not considered labor trafficking, but rather employment fraud perpetrated on irregular migrants.

Employment fraud: This occurs when a borrower claims self-employment in a non-existent company or claims a higher position (e.g., manager) in a real company, to provide justification for a fraudulent representation of the borrower's income.

One type of employment fraud happens when a contractor is hired for a duration, verbally promised additional compensation, and then has the compensation and the evidence denied for the purposes of terminating the contract with the contractor.

Mr. Mullins added that the company was ultimately not legally responsible for damage that resulted from employment fraud, pointing to Monster's terms of use, which dismiss the site from "claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential, direct and indirect) of every kind and nature."

Another type of employment fraud is when a criminal creates a form of false advertising which lures unsuspecting victims into a situation where, out of desperation or lack of knowledge, they are tricked into committing a crime or become a victim of a crime such as identity theft, embezzlement or similar types of fraud.