I think recently I dodged a scam too, i had an interview with a guy with camera off, website without tax code and all blanked off whois for the domain website
A fake job offer gone wrong
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Re: A fake job offer gone wrong
#352Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've worked at corporate jobs and smaller companies, and frankly if a large company said "here's a list of our authorised resellers, and a signing bonus paid by cheque, please use it to buy equipment as it's faster than going through procurement" I would 100% believe them as at every job I've ever had (before I got a company card) it was faster and easier to just buy and expense. I genuinely wouldn't bat an eyelid un…
If the authorized resellers were companies I'd never heard of, I would hope that would raise flags. But, yeah, especially at a smaller company, getting an official-looking company check and told to use it to get myself set up and expense it when I started would seem pretty normal. Though it's been many years since I've traveled to interview, I was always paid by check for anything out of pocket. (Except for a 3 lette…
Aren’t mostly all government agencies 3 letters?
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#353Sadly, my daughter got scammed earlier this year. She is a recent college grad from a liberal arts school, and had been working six months doing retail work after graduation. Looking to make use of her degree, she was excited to get a job offer doing remote work as an office coordinator. She has a dog so working from home was a plus, and $25/hr instead of $16/hr doing retail was a big raise. She not only lost $3000 f…
I hope you let her know that she shouldn't be ashamed. These people take advantage of the good nature of others. It's also something they work at every day to improve their ability to take advantage of others, fix the mistakes that caused the last con to fail so that the next person will be at an even greater disadvantage. Learn the lesson & move on.
Absolutely, we (my wife and I) did.
Re: A fake job offer gone wrong
#354Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least your daughter went through a full interview, which does add a layer of legitimacy. The most shocking element of OP's story is that he never actually got interviewed by a real person. He filled out a questionaire, received no feedback from it other than "You're hired at 12.5% more than you're asking". This to me is the biggest red flag of all leading up to the actual "ask" to cash the check and send funds. It…
>It seems odd to get a job for $90k /yr without ever meeting someone from the company. Odd but not unheard of. I got a job offer from Boeing sight unseen based on a cover letter and resume. When I asked, they did give me a site visit (though I didn't ultimately take the offer). I know it may seem odd in a world of leetcode interviews etc. but, if you're hiring a bunch of new grad engineers for one of the aerospace bo…
Was it cover letter, resume, and certificate of degree from an accredited University? Because that's not sight unseen, just delegated to your department and registrar, which Boeing has deep connections with. They do offer those regularly, but they also have enough trust in that accreditation to serve as a good signal.
Re: A fake job offer gone wrong
#355Sadly, my daughter got scammed earlier this year. She is a recent college grad from a liberal arts school, and had been working six months doing retail work after graduation. Looking to make use of her degree, she was excited to get a job offer doing remote work as an office coordinator. She has a dog so working from home was a plus, and $25/hr instead of $16/hr doing retail was a big raise. She not only lost $3000 f…
There is no punishment that I would not hand down as a juror for people who exploit the trust of good people and poison society. Very literally, no punishment I would veto as too harsh.
Re: A fake job offer gone wrong
#356Time pressure is always a red flag, they will try to give you time pressure to try to switch off your logic and just do it right away.
Re: A fake job offer gone wrong
#357Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not bad grammar. It's just not American English.
Every other line of the IM transcript would be grammatically incorrect in any English-speaking country I’m aware of. “All hotel and booking has been made and trips has been plnanned” “Is this how you want to be difficult” “I will send you later” Where is any of that considered correct English? If my manager sent any of those message I’d be worried about a stroke.
Pidgin dialects of English are no less correct than more wildly use dialects of English (grammar rules are shaped by the speaker of a dialect or language, as they use it, they are only set from on high when some people like to declare others as "unwanted" users of that language. But I digress)
Re: A fake job offer gone wrong
#358Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not bad grammar. It's just not American English.
Even Indian English follows grammatical rules, the difference would be the words used, idiomatic sentences etc.
Slightly different grammatical rules. For example, some dialects of Indian English use the present participle for future tense (similar to some Caribbean dialects)
Re: A fake job offer gone wrong
#359Pretty common scam, and one that I've run into multiple times, including at the very start of my freelance IT work right out of high school. In that case, a "business" wanted some computers fixed, but they needed to be released from some courier. The "business" stated they would send a check for me to deposit, and that I would then pay the courier on my end to release the hardware to be delivered for me to repair and send back. I hadn't seen this scam before, but I knew something was fishy; after all, if they're able to write me a check, why wouldn't they be able to pay this courier themselves? I stood my ground, insisting that delivering the hardware for repair was their responsibility, and theirs alone. The "business" sent the check anyway; I shredded it and ghosted them. I only learned later how common such check-bouncing scams indeed are, and how big of a bullet I had dodged.
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#360Earlier quoted context omitted.
And apparently completely devoid of any idea of human decency, yes
This seems a bit harsh. Nobody really says that about the participants in the Milgram experiment[1], but the psychologist in the ABC article says that this is probably why the caller targeted fast food restaurants >"Everything is by the book," he explained. "This is how you serve it. This is exactly how you do it. You follow the book — you're OK. I believe he picked fast food restaurants because he knew, once you got…
The participants in the milgram experiment are absolutely judged that way, the difference is there was no actual harm done in the experiment.
This woman should be in jail, criminal negligence is a thing.