# OpenAI — Deceptive Employment Scheme: IT worker activity

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2025-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-it-workers
- Record: https://forck.live/items/550-deceptive-employment-scheme-it-worker-activity

OpenAI banned accounts linked to deceptive employment campaigns that used AI to create materials for fraudulent job applications.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-it-workers:

> OpenAI banned accounts associated with suspected deceptive employment campaigns that used AI to develop materials for potentially fraudulent remote-job applications.

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