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God damn, the job scammers have gotten atrociously bad... I'm getting multiple a day.

Context: these are people who use fake job postings for identity theft and sometimes for laundering illegal purchases.

How to spot them:

  • No job should be contacting you from a free email address unless it's a very small and non-tech related business.
  • They apparently love to use Microsoft Teams currently
  • The email doesn't name a company
  • The email address doesn't match the company name in the signature
  • They try to push you to continue the conversation outside of email (they do this in cases where they're spoofing emails so can't receive replies)
  • The email address isn't actually to you, but instead to a free account (this is them taking advantage of people's tendency to use reply-all, so they can get a reply while making it look like the email is coming from someone else)
  • They're talking about multiple unrelated positions, often paying higher than the norm
  • They're holding interviews today and you need to respond immediately if you don't want to miss out!