My favorite was a job posting through a company called ladders

Saw it in the soup of other job posting, went to apply, it took me to some other job portal, ok whatever, this is normal, filled out all the forms as one does, and then reached the end and the site told me they'd submitted my application, and here were some other jobs I could apply to with the same application. Useful, right?

Click any of them, or anywhere else on the page, and a full screen modal takeover comes up, demanding you pay $50/application.

I closed the tab, but watched the email they sent me from the first job app. It went nowhere. Eventually applied to the company directly, on their job portal, and when I got to a real recruiter later, they said they never received my first app. My guess is ladders never even sent it and wouldn't until I paid up

Best part was ladders continued to spam my email inbox with job application invitations, each one wanting the same $50, until I blocked the fastmail throw away

I also had a "recruiter" reach out to me about a "role I'd be a good fit in". Made the meeting, and immediately some red flags. Audio and video were about 2 seconds out of sync. Guy then proceeded to try and pitch me on a similar job board, with the same $50/application cost, only this one had a 10 weeks salary cost on placement as well

I told him I wasn't interested.

Maybe these are just more traditional scams or whatever, not the malware type the op is about, but they still piss me off

My brother had been unemployed for a long time due to illness, and finally got a "job offer" on LinkedIn that seemed legit to him. They asked for him to write a check to make a deposit for his company laptop (which seems pretty insane on the face of it), but he was desperate and really happy to finally have a job offer.

People who've been unemployed for a long time are often desperate enough to overlook serious red flags that would never catch someone with substantial savings or who's employed and looking to job hop.