Fraud Alert
Beware of Coupang job offer scams
Recently, scammers posing as Coupang recruiters have been contacting people whose resumes are posted online. After an initial exchange (“Your resume looks perfect for some of our fully remote jobs!”), the fake recruiter will set up job interviews and eventually send a fake job offer from Coupang. These scammers are trying to trick you into making a payment, or they are trying to obtain your personal information, like your bank account or social security number. In some cases, these scams have been fairly sophisticated, with multiple people reaching out to the candidate, scheduling multiple job interviews over Zoom, providing job benefits information, sending a formal offer letter, and, eventually, asking candidates to fill out paperwork.
Coupang will never:
- Charge a recruitment fee.
- Charge an administrative fee.
- Charge a fee to ship a laptop to you.
- Ask you to send us any kind of payment over Zelle, PayPal, Venmo, etc.
- Ask you to download a program onto your home computer.
- Ask you to send personal identification documents during the recruitment process.
Please be on the lookout for signs of fraud:
- High-pressure recruiting tactics, where interviews and job offers happen in just two to three days.
- Demands for payment or personal information (real employers do not request personal identification documents during the recruitment phase).
- Communications filled with typos.
- Emails that are not coming from coupang.com or from coupanginc.com.
Learn more about real Coupang jobs at coupang.jobs.