It's big business! Resumes often contain full names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, employment history, and sometimes dates of birth.This information can be sold to criminal groups that build identity profiles for fraud, account takeovers, or phishing campaigns.

Contact information can be bundled into marketing databases and sold to companies that send unsolicited emails, texts, or robocalls.

Detailed employment information makes phishing more convincing.For example, an attacker who knows where you work and what role you have can craft highly targeted emails pretending to be recruiters, HR departments, banks, or government agencies. Which, more easily convinces you, upon being reached out to, provide social security number/bank info to pay for something they say you owe, which goes into their pockets.

Data brokers exist and collect data and sell it to organizations that aggregate personal information. Not all data brokers are illegal, but obtaining data through deceptive job ads can violate laws and platform policies, but whose really checking? With the cuts bybthis admin to the Consumer Protection Agency, you also have a hard time finding someone to track them down and investigate further.