Brief
The Employment Scam Aegean Dataset (EMSCAD) is a publicly available dataset containing 17,880 real-life job ads that aims at providing a clear picture of the Employment Scam problem to the research community and can act as a valuable testbed for scientists working on the field. Our first publication is available online by MDPI Future Internet Journal.
EMSCAD records were manually annotated and classified into two categories. More specifically, the dataset contains 17,014 legitimate and 866 fraudulent job ads published between 2012 to 2014.
Emails, phones and URLs found in texts were masked via the pattern #(EMAIL|PHONE|URL)_Keyed_SHA2#.
We would like to underline that due human error in judgement during the annotation process, some entries might belong to the wrong class. Overall, we expect their number to be insignificant. Should you have any feedback on the dataset, please contact us at sokratis.vidros[at]aegean.gr
Dataset description
String
Name | Description |
Title | The title of the job ad entry. |
Location | Geographical location of the job ad. |
Department | Corporate department (e.g. sales). |
Salary range | Indicative salary range (e.g. $50,000-$60,000) |
HTML fragment
Company profile | A brief company description. |
Description | The details description of the job ad. |
Requirements | Enlisted requirements for the job opening. |
Benefits | Enlisted offered benefits by the employer. |
Binary
Telecommuting | True for telecommuting positions. |
Company logo | True if company logo is present. |
Questions | True if screening questions are present. |
Fraudulent | Classification attribute. |
In balanced | Selected for the balanced dataset |
Nominal
Employment type | Full-type, Part-time, Contract, etc. |
Required experience | Executive, Entry level, Intern, etc. |
Required education | Doctorate, Master’s Degree, Bachelor, etc. |
Industry | Automotive, IT, Health care, Real estate, etc. |
Function | Consulting, Engineering, Research, Sales etc. |
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- Prairie View A & M University
- San Diego State University
- University Of Nairobi
- Soongsil University
- COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
- University of Essex
- Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava
- Universit of Paris Est Créteil (UPEC)
- The Hashemite University
- Kyungpook National University, South Korea
- University of Seville
- Murdoch University
- Beijing University of Technology
- Iowa State University
- Durham University
- Toshiba Research Europe Limited
- Kaunas University of Technology
- Rzeszow University
- Kaunas University of Technology
- Yeungnam University
- UNSW Sydney
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland
- American International University-Bangladesh
- King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
- University of Waterloo, Canada
- University of Malta
- Temple University
- International Islamic University, Pakistan
- Northeastern University, Boston
- University of South Florida
- Texas A&M University
- Jaypee Institute Of Information Technology
- Dankook University, South Korea