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Re: A fake job offer gone wrong

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Post by tbrownaw »

Nursie wrote: post #46
tbrownaw wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Once a month for the water bill, because the city charges extra to pay online with a card. I think there are rules that say they have to? A year or two ago when we had a tree service come out to trim some things. Before that, when we had a fence redone. Both of those were smaller local companies.

Here's a question, where you are, does "Direct Debit" exist? In the UK and here in Australia, when I set up a utility account I get a message saying "why not set up a direct debit?", which means that a transfer goes straight from my account to theirs at the alotted time each month, for the amount of the bill. You get your usual bill usually a week or two before the debit goes out so you can make sure it's OK well bef…

It exists (USA here, and a smaller local bank), but afaik doesn't have that sort of consumer protections or review/management features.

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Post by mdturnerphys »

cmckn wrote: post #298
mdturnerphys wrote: post #83

They have my drivers license which contains a lot personal information but eh... proably somewhere based in india or something, I dunno. Freeze your credit reports with all 3 credit reporting companies. Last year someone flew into Seattle from out of state with a driver license with their photo but my info, including an old driver license number. They got a bunch of cell phones and attempted to open a number of store…

I’m mostly shocked that you can spend $64,000 on a Dodge Challenger. Sorry you had to deal with that, sounds like a nightmare.

The credit card applications got blocked, but I found out about them because the thieves used my email address on the applications. The most frustrating part was trying to get in contact with the right people at T-Mobile and Verizon to report and shut down the fraudulent accounts. I found out about those because of soft credit pulls on my credit report. I'm not sure if a credit freeze would have prevented them since they were just soft pulls.

Re: A fake job offer gone wrong

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Post by mint2 »

Oh no! Even after the rude awakening they’re still erring on the side of trusting.

At least put a credit freeze on. It’s easy! What’s done is done so no sense beating oneself over it or worrying, but take precaution!

>”They have my drivers license which contains a lot personal information but eh... proably somewhere based in india or something, I dunno.”

While hopefully not likely the worst case scenario can be a nightmare but doing two new actions now can help. 1. File a police report! 2. Put credit freeze!

And a third action that everyone should do, request the free credit report a couple times a year and inspect. But makes sure it’s the legit site and also free.

These actions will help prevent this https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2022-10-26...

Re: A fake job offer gone wrong

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Post by mint2 »

andix wrote: post #277

I think it's quite simple: If you are starting a job, the company pays you. Never ever should you spend a significant amount of money before receiving the first pay check.

spending personal money after is sketchy too if they “pay” and it’s still only the first few weeks

Re: A fake job offer gone wrong

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Post by skilled »

evandale wrote: post #249
skilled wrote: post #225

I haven't gone through all the comments, but am I the only one in here who doesn't want to read past 2nd email? If someone sent me some shady email address, then that shady email address sent me a message saying, "Hey it's me that shady email address owner, but I can't get to it, so I am using ANOTHER shady address." Someone convince me this post of his is not a waste of time.

Yeah, I don't know how I would have gone past that point. There's also the weird capitalization of words after commas and "Screening Test/Interview Questions" and if you do bother to make it past email two it changes to "Screening test/Interview Questions" and really bad grammar in general. Those kinds of silly mistakes are nearly intolerable on resumes, why would it be acceptable for a hiring manager or HR to commun…

I've been thinking about this more, and I wonder if it could be related to what the "advance fee" or "inheritance" scammers do. Basically, they make the email as ridiculous as possible because it weeds out the smart people and leaves them with those who would genuinely fall for it.

(I am not calling the author of this post stupid, btw. I'm just making an observation.)

Re: A fake job offer gone wrong

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Post by andix »

mint2 wrote: post #304
andix wrote: post #277

I think it's quite simple: If you are starting a job, the company pays you. Never ever should you spend a significant amount of money before receiving the first pay check.

spending personal money after is sketchy too if they “pay” and it’s still only the first few weeks

Yeah, but on business trips this is usually the reality in big corporations. Quite often even the company credit card is deducted from the employees bank account. And you need to get the money reimbursed with the receipts. If you do it fast enough you may get reimbursed before your credit card invoice is deducted from the account.

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Post by jliptzin »

“Our company AutoNation received your resume and application in respect of our job posting”

That’s it for me, once I see language like that I know it is 100% a scam and e-mail goes to trash.

Re: A fake job offer gone wrong

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Post by P5fRxh5kUvp2th »

shkkmo wrote: post #214
P5fRxh5kUvp2th wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

jfc, that manager should be criminally culpable.

If by "criminally culpable" you mean "awarded over a million dollars", then that is exactly what happened. > Summers also sued McDonald's and was awarded $1 million in punitive damages and $100,000 in compensatory damages.

yes, awarded a million dollars for being fucking stupid.
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