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Re: A fake job offer gone wrong

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Post by pokepim »

abhinav061 wrote: post #77
nigamanth wrote: post #6

To be honest, one can easily realize that this "Marc Cannon" is a fake with the amount of spelling and grammatical errors he makes. Real professionals do not make spelling and grammar errors such as: "Do you have any other question ?" "Good morning how are you this morning." "I will send you later" "Good morning, How are you doing today ?" "This is very disrespectful and all director are to meet you for training on m…

Scammers intentionally make grammatical mistakes. If you can spot the mistakes, they don't want to engage with you. (Of course, there are other reasons why would one spot yet ignore grammatical mistakes - sometimes it is because of the personal situation they are in, sometimes it's of empathy towards non-native English speakers)

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Re: A fake job offer gone wrong

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Post by [deleted] »

nigamanth wrote: post #17
bagels wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely a cause for alarm for someone that supposedly works in software in Florida, but there are professionals who don't have English as their first language.

Well, yeah there are professionals who don't have English as their first language, but I mean making a mistake in the most basic punctuation marks? Sure if he doesn't know the difference between "it's" and "its" then it's fine, but if he doesn't know how to properly use commas in a sentence then one must question his professionality. Additionally, there was no way he couldn't have had access to automation.com

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Re: A fake job offer gone wrong

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Post by mdturnerphys »

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 credit cards with it. They bought a car with a fake of someone else's https://bellevuebeatblog.com/2021/04/28/64000-dodge-challeng...

Re: A fake job offer gone wrong

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Post by ipaddr »

You know it's fake because the company hasn't made you sit through 6 interviews with random panel guests then ghosted you for 3 month then low balled you and put a 24 hour expiry on the offer. Bonus credibility points for only giving half of the question during the whiteboard session only to casually remember remember at the very end while grading harshly for missing that.

If the offer hasn't been rescinded at least once it's probably a red flag as well.

Re: A fake job offer gone wrong

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Post by firefoxd »

There's this magician called Jamy Ian swiss that I often watched. He would do a card trick and fool you. Then he tells you how he does the trick, and still fools you. It doesn't matter how much he tells you, you'll still get fooled because "Nobody thinks that magicians will work this hard to fool you."

These scam tricks still work in 2022 because we think scammers are always on the nose. We never think how hard they will work just to fool us.

Re: A fake job offer gone wrong

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Post by ketzo »

kortilla wrote: post #74
ryandrake wrote: post #48

Great job figuring out it was a scam but honestly, it’s crazy that these things still work on anyone all the way in 2022. You would think that by now every human being that walks the earth would know that whenever someone you don’t know sends you “money” and then requests you send it back (or to another party) in a different form, it’s always a scam. There should be some ceremony whenever someone turns 16 or somethin…

Delta airlines gives gift cards as payment for volunteering on oversold flights. Really doesn’t help dissuade people from “$50 Panera Bread” gift cards from being involved in transactions not involving Panera Bread.

Yeah, but approximately no business or government agency in the world ACCEPTS gift cards as payment.

Re: A fake job offer gone wrong

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Post by SanjayMehta »

ryandrake wrote: post #48

Great job figuring out it was a scam but honestly, it’s crazy that these things still work on anyone all the way in 2022. You would think that by now every human being that walks the earth would know that whenever someone you don’t know sends you “money” and then requests you send it back (or to another party) in a different form, it’s always a scam. There should be some ceremony whenever someone turns 16 or somethin…

This journalist got scammed into quitting her job and telling the world that she had been hired by an Ivy League university as a professor.

Months of effort and multiple email domains created to push the scam.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vq8m/india-nidhi-razdan-ph...

Re: A fake job offer gone wrong

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Post by j33zusjuice »

ketzo wrote: post #86
kortilla wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Delta airlines gives gift cards as payment for volunteering on oversold flights. Really doesn’t help dissuade people from “$50 Panera Bread” gift cards from being involved in transactions not involving Panera Bread.

Yeah, but approximately no business or government agency in the world ACCEPTS gift cards as payment.

The companies that issue them accept them.

Re: A fake job offer gone wrong

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Post by notch656a »

rippercushions wrote: post #61
silisili wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry that happened to her. There's also some mental concept where people already got started or went so far, and subconsciously don't want to believe they've been had, so keep going. I'm sure there's a name for it, I can't be bothered to look up. It's why romance scams are so common, and also why that McDonald's manager undressed that employee, for example. Fascinating, but sad.

The McDonalds manager story in question: https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=3688563&page=1 Which would be completely unbelievable if there wasn't security footage of the whole thing!

Meanwhile if an actual police officer directs a private citizen to perform this kind of search, it's not only apparently legal but approved by the medical and nursing board.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.azd.985...

Re: A fake job offer gone wrong

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Post by imiric »

abhinav061 wrote: post #77
nigamanth wrote: post #6

To be honest, one can easily realize that this "Marc Cannon" is a fake with the amount of spelling and grammatical errors he makes. Real professionals do not make spelling and grammar errors such as: "Do you have any other question ?" "Good morning how are you this morning." "I will send you later" "Good morning, How are you doing today ?" "This is very disrespectful and all director are to meet you for training on m…

Scammers intentionally make grammatical mistakes. If you can spot the mistakes, they don't want to engage with you. (Of course, there are other reasons why would one spot yet ignore grammatical mistakes - sometimes it is because of the personal situation they are in, sometimes it's of empathy towards non-native English speakers)

Most scammers aren't that smart. The grammatical mistakes just happen to work well for them as a filter.
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