Do Not Fall For This While Seeking Employment

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  • Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
  • Sorry Gamers, I know you expect gaming content on this channel, but this is important to me.
    So some signs:
    1. The domain name looks off from the sender, such as appending "careers" to the end of a company name. Domains are pretty cheap, I bet I can snag an official looking domain for a reputable mid-sized company for less than $10/year. Since these scammers are using it for the email portion they don't even need to rent a server or anything.
    2. The email username has a single first name. Companies have tens, hundreds, thousands of employees - surely they need a better naming scheme than firstname@domain.
    3. They do NOT refer to you by name. This one should be fairly obvious, but if they have your resume they also have your name.
    4. You can't find any information on the role that is supposedly available.
    5. On the WHOIS, the domain name is less than 1 year old. Like I mentioned, the domain names are an annual cost - so a scammer moving from a sunk cost to annual is unlikely ($10 vs $10 every year). In fact, in this video the domain name was registered on the day that email hit my inbox.
    Timestamps:
    0:00 Intro
    0:31 Digging Deeper
    1:09 Words of Caution
    🎶Cloudy Gardens by Brooklyn Game Audio
    #jobsearch

КОМЕНТАРІ • 2

  • @jacca8640
    @jacca8640  Місяць тому

    I think the payoff for the scammer is getting a mark into a regular tech interview - you know, the whole leetcode garbage prove that you deserve food and shelter.
    But there's a twist, they include some infostealer or something else malicious in the code they have you run as part of this assessment. (Purely speculation, as I refuse to contact these people)
    If you're desperate enough to get that far, probably don't run anything on your own machine ever.

  • @jacca8640
    @jacca8640  Місяць тому

    This is a one off thing. I will be going back to my irregularly scheduled gaming content.