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自己还在找工作，他已帮领英撤下近六万个假职位
Laid Off and Still Job Hunting, He Has Helped Pull Nearly 60,000 Fake Jobs Off LinkedIn
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Jay Jones, a Chicago-area copywriter laid off in late 2023, calls himself The Profiler. While still looking for work, he has tracked nearly 60,000 fake job listings and flagged about 7,000 scam profiles — like five "Linda Anthony" recruiters sharing one photo, which vanished once he posted about them. He explains how scammers sell résumé help, harvest driver's licenses and Social Security numbers, and hijack forgotten verified LinkedIn accounts, and why LinkedIn's 14-day appeal window made him furious. Chinese listening practice at four levels. HSK 1 Chinese listening practice.
This is an HSK 1 Chinese listening episode that runs about 3 minutes. The full Mandarin script is shown with tap-for-pinyin and a line-by-line English translation, so you can listen and read at once — comprehensible input in the sense of Stephen Krashen's i+1 theory. It teaches 12 key vocabulary words such as 工作、钱、电脑 and walks through 3 grammar patterns, each explained in English with examples. The same news story is retold at 4 difficulty levels — use the level selector above to find the version that is challenging but still understandable for you.
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English transcript reference
Are you looking for a job?
When a lot of people look for work, they look online.
There are lots and lots of jobs online.
Some jobs are real, and some jobs are fake.
What fake jobs want is your money.
Today we're talking about an American.
His name is Jay, and he's thirty-nine.
Every day, he looks for fake jobs online.
Before, he worked at a company, and his job was writing.
Then the company let him go.
He didn't have a job anymore.
He started looking for work online too.
Back then, someone said to him: your writing isn't good.
Give me money, and I can get you a job.
Jay thought: this person is fake.
Then Jay started searching online too — searching for fake jobs.
He spends a lot of his time sitting in front of the computer.
How many fake jobs has he found?
Almost sixty thousand.
He's also found lots of fake people — more than seven thousand.
One day in the middle of the night, he saw someone online.
Her name was Linda, and she said: I can give you a job.
Then Jay saw two Lindas, three Lindas, five Lindas.
All five Lindas had a photo of the same person.
All five Lindas were new.
So Linda wasn't a real person.
Jay talked about these five Lindas online.
Very soon, all five Lindas were gone.
Jay said: turn on the light, and the bugs all run away.
What do these fake people want?
Some want your money.
Some want your name and your ID, and then they sell them to other people.
Jay says: when you see someone new, think twice.
Jay still doesn't have a job.
He also drives people around, so he can make a little money.
Some people are very grateful to him and give him a little money.
Jay has two children.
He says: when the kids grow up, they'll know what their dad did.
When you look for jobs online, have you seen fake ones?
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇HSK 1. 有的工作是真的，有的工作是假的 — the whole story in one line.
HSK 1. 假的工作，想要的是你的钱。
HSK 1. 他很多时候都坐在电脑前面 — where Jay does his hunting.
HSK 1. 有的想要你的名字 — identity is what gets sold.
HSK 1. 杰伊看见了两个琳达，三个琳达，五个琳达。
HSK 1. 孩子大了，会知道爸爸做了什么 — his reason for doing it.
HSK 2. The key verb, used both ways: 找工作 (job hunting) and 找假的工作 (hunting fakes).
The opposite of 真的. 这个人是假的。
网 (net) + 上 (on). 很多人找工作，会在网上看。
五个琳达，照片都是一个人 — the giveaway.
然后卖给别的人 — what happens to your details.
HSK 2. 杰伊有两个孩子。
* beyond level超纲词
What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法有的……，有的……
Some…, others… — splits a group into two kinds.
有的工作是真的，有的工作是假的。
有的想要你的钱。
一……，就……
As soon as X, Y. Jay's line about scammers vanishing.
杰伊说：你一开灯，虫子就都跑了。
快 + number + 了
Almost / nearly reaching a number.
快六万个了。
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