Years ago, my previous employer had a few listings on Indeed for software engineers (some were very long-running). A recruiter reached out to us with a candidate they had, who had experience in the areas we were looking for, which was enticing because people like this were not so easy to come by for a small company not based in a major city. By chance, we found out during the interview process with the candidate that the recruiter was playing both parties. This very shady recruiter cloned our job listing (removing the company information) and was able to out-rank us in the search. They presented themselves to the candidate as if they were working for us, and to us they presented themselves as trying to place this candidate, effectively collecting a recruiting fee for hijacking our listing forwarding a resume. They ended up with nothing but a warning from lawyers, but they _almost_ got an easy paycheck out of it.