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Fraud risk grows as employers are duped by cloned CVs

Criminals are using cloned career histories to deceive recruiters into hiring them for positions that could enable them to commit fraud, say security experts.

A survey by credit information specialist Experian found that 63% of professionals included career details in their personal profiles online, and as many as one in 10 people now publish their whole CV on social networking sites such as LinkedIn, leaving themselves at risk of "career cloning".