Hugo Plowman and Rebecca Morse, partner and associate in the litigation department, discuss the rise in recruitment fraud and how recruiters can protect themselves against this.

It is not only the jobseekers who post CVs and personal details on job boards in search of their next (it turns out, fictitious) employer that are being exploited. Fake clients are on the rise. In the past year, we have seen a marked increase in the number of businesses being tricked by fraudsters posing as clients.

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