Comment on YSK: Indeed and other job sites are saturated with scams

small44@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• s38b35M5@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My SO got a “job offer” from a nonexistent company that 20 min of research uncovered a single applicant being scammed out of $75k when they shared bank details, presumably for setting up direct deposit.

  The “company” didn’t even have a website, but just because they were lazy doesn’t mean other scammers won’t go the extra mile to make a real-looking website with postings. Its a tough world out there…

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  • shyguyblue@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mine was “Lone Pine Village Company”

    Offer was through LinkedIn, and they sent me a “you’ve been selected” email. The interview process was going to be over email 🚩, through some guy that wasn’t cc’d on the email 🚩, and had a first.last12345@Gmail.com style email address 🚩.

    When i started looking into it, the job posting was removed 🚩, the company page no longer exists🚩, and the only links in the email were the email address to some Gmail address 🚩, no company website even through Duck Duck🚩.

    Duck scammers, I just want a job, a ducking purpose other than “purchase product, consume content”.

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    • s38b35M5@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My SO was skeptical from the start, but when they sent an email from an impressively obfuscated email address, that was the end. The alias had over 100 characters including specials, and the domain was the same.

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    • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is racist against ducks

      Got any bread?

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  • IonAddis@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I ran into something like this from a company named Botrista who was supposedly hiring remote positions. I got suspicious before they got my personal info, dug deeper and found their site ran on wix, tried to contact them by other methods to see if I could get a real person, and concluded it was all a scam to collect the typical prehire personal info like bank accounts, ss number, home address, etc.

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• ted@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The company I work at would fail this test about two thirds of the time.

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• boywar3@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yup. Between all the time checking for legitimacy and evaluating the company, it’s a huge pain in the ass to look for jobs all day…and even when you find one you enter the same information over and over because autofill from resume doesn’t work…

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  • small44@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My major problem with job bords is that almost same companies that are shown on the top. I wish there was a blacklist feature

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    • boywar3@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Between that and how poor the search function is. “IT Support” shouldn’t be bringing up car mechanic jobs…

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