Warning over fake AI jobseeker after ‘messed up’ interview

“Either you change the hiring process now, or you’ll learn the hard way,” he said on a separate LinkedIn post. “It’s creepy and sad, but we have to adapt; there’s no other option. You need to act now!”

The rise of AI candidates

Vidoc’s incident comes amid the growing use of AI among jobseekers to find work, a trend being exploited by scammers.

Ben Sesser, the CEO of BrightHire, told CNBC that fraudulent job candidates using AI have “ramped up massively” in 2025.

“Humans are generally the weak link in cybersecurity, and the hiring process is an inherently human process with a lot of hand-offs and a lot of different people involved,” Sesser told CNBC. “It’s become a weak point that folks are trying to expose.”

Pindrop Security, an information security company, also shared that they had a candidate using deepfake software and other generative AI tools to get hired at their company.