Decentralized Solution to Mitigate Job Posting Scams by Proving Ownership and Identity

Giannakidis, Apostolos (2022) Decentralized Solution to Mitigate Job Posting Scams by Proving Ownership and Identity. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

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Abstract

In a recent public announcement, the FBI warned the public about a scam scheme on career-oriented social networking platforms. Scammers exploit security vulnerabilities on these platforms that allow them to post fraudulent job advertisements in an attempt to trick unsuspecting applicants, who are unable to verify the identity of the job poster, to submit their personal information. Victims are financially damaged and impersonated organizations are reputationally affected. This research is proposing a decentralized system using Blockchain, public Cloud and decentralized services as a mitigation control against this scam. This novel solution uses Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) to verify the ownership of job posts and Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) / Decentralized Identifiers (DID) to verify the identity and provide authorization to job posters. To evaluate its feasibility and the research results, a Proof-of-Concept solution has been developed that runs on the Polygon network on the Ethereum Blockchain and uses Microsoft’s Verifiable Credentials Azure service. The delivered Proof-of-Concept proved that it is feasible to mitigate this scam with 100% accuracy for the job posts that have been minted as NFTs.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science T Technology > T Technology (General) > Information Technology > Electronic computers. Computer science T Technology > T Technology (General) > Information Technology > Cloud computing
Divisions:	School of Computing > Master of Science in Cloud Computing
Depositing User:	Tamara Malone
Date Deposited:	06 Dec 2022 14:58
Last Modified:	06 Dec 2022 14:58
URI:	https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/5969

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