{"id":989835,"date":"2026-02-04T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989835"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:32:09","slug":"texas-journalist-exposes-indian-recruiters-behind-h-1b-only-job-ads-on-linkedin-when-i-call-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/04\/texas-journalist-exposes-indian-recruiters-behind-h-1b-only-job-ads-on-linkedin-when-i-call-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas journalist &#8216;exposes&#8217; Indian recruiters behind &#8216;H-1B only&#8217; job ads on LinkedIn: &#8216;When I call the numbers&#8230;&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas journalist Sara Gonzales, who knocked on the doors of a few H-1B addresses in Texas, exposing a &#8216;major scam&#8217; in the state, has now targeted Indian recruiters offering &#8216;H-1B only&#8217; jobs at various US locations on LinkedIn. Gonzales said she visited the websites of the companies and found a common pattern: most of the contact numbers given on the sites do not work, the companies have their offices in India; they have unpolished\/ wrong choice of English words on their sites; and they rent out virtual remote coworking space so that they can have an address but no one is there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas journalist Sara Gonzales, who knocked on the doors of a few H-1B addresses in Texas, exposing a &#8216;major scam&#8217; in the state, has now targeted Indian recruiters offering &#8216;H-1B only&#8217; jobs at various US locations on LinkedIn. Gonzales said she visited the websites of the companies and found a common pattern: most of the contact numbers given on the sites do not work, the companies have their offices in India; they have unpolished\/ wrong choice of English words on their sites; and they rent out virtual remote coworking space so that they can have an address but no one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}