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The Latest Know Your Employer Case

I was messaged on LinkedIn by Jenniffer Martinez, purportedly from HS Hyosung USA. She wanted my email address to send information about a job opportunity.

Why? 

“After reviewing your resume and relevant experience, we believe your management experience, professional background, and career stability are a strong match for Yaskawa Group’s current talent needs.”

(Only now did I notice the reference to Yaskawa Group, whatever it is.)

Eventually I told “Jenniffer” that I had contacted her employer directly.

By 11:30 she had deleted her entire conversation, which is why I took screen shots immediately.

And I never even got around to asking her for HER corporate email address.

No word from HS Hyosung USA, but it knows all about Jenniffer now (see final screen shot).

Know Your Employer.

Jenniffer, 1 of 3.
Jenniffer, 2 of 3.
Jenniffer, 3 of 3.
Jenniffer’s purported company.

Declutter and Focus

2025 has been a year of declutterring and focusing.

The declutterring is the hardest. I may still love that long sleeve shirt with holes in the right elbow. (Why always the right elbow? I’m left handed.) But it’s no longer good for me, and I should have gotten rid of it years ago.

Whether it’s a former friend—a great person who went silent and indifferent—or a newsletter from a company that rejected my 2023 job application and only contacted me afterwards because GDPR required it—the time has come to simplify and focus.

Now just a few hundred LinkedIn newsletters and email subscriptions to go.

And to see where I can focus now.

Kalshi, Polymarket, DraftKings, FanDuel, and Gambling Legality

(Bredebot helped write small parts of this post.)

Is it only smartphone game app users who are inundated with an unrelenting barrage of Kalshi ads?

If nothing else, the barrage inspired me to research Designated Contract Markets (DCMs). A DCM is a status granted and regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), a federal agency. As such, Kalshi argues that it is exempt from state gaming regulations because it’s not hosting gambling. It’s hosting futures trading.

Gemini.

But Kalshi and similar apps such as Polymarket are opposed by DraftKings, FanDuel, and other sports betting apps. They make no pretense of “trading futures,” but comply with state-level gambling regulations, and use geolocation to prohibit mobile sports betting in states such as California where it is illegal.

And both are opposed by Native American casinos governed by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) of 1988, which allows sovereign tribal nations to host traditional Indian games.

And they are opposed by other card houses, racetracks, bingo games, and state sponsored lotteries.

And all are opposed by the traditional Las Vegas casinos…except when they themselves host mobile apps and strike licensing deals with Native American casinos.

But the mobile app variants not only deal with geolocation, but also digital identity verification and age verification. 

And employment verification or non-verification to ensure that football players aren’t betting on football games.

Gemini.

Plus authentication to open the app and ensure Little Jimmy doesn’t open it.

Gemini.

There are all sorts of gaming identity stories…and Bredemarket can help identity/biometric marketers tell them.

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How Do You Make Cash Payments to the CORRECT People?

In the United States, we forget that much of the world does NOT fill out W-9 forms.

Take the apparel industry in Jordan.

“In Jordan, the apparel sector relies heavily on a large migrant workforce, many of whom lack access to bank accounts and remain unbanked. Wage payments have traditionally been cash-based…”

To facilitate cash payments to unbanked apparel workers in Jordan, IrisGuard stepped in with its EyePay product.

“Cairo Amman Bank (CAB) Jordan…has launched a national-scale biometric cash salary payment network for unbanked workers. 

“With just a simple iris scan, employees can securely access their wages instantly, without the need for a bank account, PIN, or physical ID.”

I don’t think this is tied to an iris-based time and attendance system, but that is the obvious next step.

If Only Job Applicant Deepfake Detection Were This Easy

In reality, job applicant deepfake detection is (so far) unable to determine who the fraudster really is, but it can determine who the fraudster is NOT.

Something to remember when hiring people for sensitive positions. You don’t want to unknowingly hire a North Korean spy.

The End of Human Resources

I admit to being old enough to remember that a particular corporate department was always called “Human Resources.”

Times have changed.

This hit me when I saw a reference to a “People Manager.”

I initially thought to myself, aren’t ALL managers People Managers?

Then I remembered that we live in the days where AI helps companies jettison people…I mean, rightsize corporate outcomes to maximize efficiencies.

At the rate we’re going, hardly any managers will actually manage people.

Know Your Recruiter, Tuesday 9/16/2025 Edition

A supposed recruiter on LinkedIn with 2 names (Adriana, and Linda) and only 2 connections (whoops, now 3) tried to scam a friend of mine.

But my friend smelled a rat.

Another employment scammer.

Know your recruiter!

(Hiring rat picture from Imagen 4)

Know your recruiter!

Stop Scammers: The Latest Way to Verify Company Recruiter and Leader Identities on LinkedIn

I’ve written about the fake recruiters who InMail you about a great position with their company. I shut up the fakes by requesting their corporate email address at their supposed employer. But what if LinkedIn could catch them BEFORE they ever sent that InMail to me?

LinkedIn is trying. 

From HR Dive, brought to my attention by Jennifer Schlador on LinkedIn.

“LinkedIn is looking to take on scammers who falsely present themselves as recruiters or company representatives in the app, with an expansion of its company verification option, while it’s also making workplace verification required when a member adds or updates a leadership or recruiter-related role.”

From HR Dive.

Of course, the proposed Know Your Recruiter system isn’t foolproof; nothing is. Scammers can avoid the LinkedIn verification step by simply NOT choosing a leadership or recruiter-related job title.

Imagen 4.

And as much as people like me wish that people would care about verified identities…many don’t. 

  • If “Jones Jay” from Microsoft sends jobseekers an InMail about a wonderful position, 
  • some will blindly respond without even looking at Jones Jay’s LinkedIn profile at all, 
  • much less checking whether his identity and employer are verified.

But at least the attempt demonstrates that LinkedIn cares more about their real users than about the scammers who pay for Premium.