Please be aware of emails impersonating Handle Recruitment consultants

⚠️ Please be aware of emails impersonating Handle Recruitment consultants

We’ve recently been made aware of a few scammers contacting people while pretending to be members of the Handle team.

They’ve done their homework. The emails use the names of genuine Handle consultants, link to their real LinkedIn profiles (sometimes including their profile photo) and can include some very convincing detail about supposed job opportunities.

There is, however, a fairly big giveaway, the email address.

We’re currently seeing Gmail accounts designed to look like Handle addresses:

❌ firstname.lastname.recruiting.handle@gmail.com

If you receive an email from someone claiming to work at Handle, it’s always worth taking two seconds to check the actual email address rather than just the sender name or signature.

✅ Any emails sent from Handle Recruitment will end in @handle.co.uk  

We’re reporting the accounts we become aware of to Google and, but If something doesn’t look quite right, don’t share any personal information or documents. You can always contact us directly through handle.co.uk and we’ll happily confirm whether the person, and the opportunity, is genuine.

And to whoever is pretending to be our consultants, we completely agree they’re brilliant and can see why you have chosen to impersonate them, but we’d rather you didn’t. 🙂