What are all these emails offering employment?

atikovi · 27 Jul 2014, 02:57 AM

Seems I get a dozen a day in my main folder, not spam folder, saying I've been offered a job at Google, FOX, Facebook, etc. paying $90K a year. Obviously I don't click on the links, but what are they selling or what is the scam? The $10M inheritance scams just not paying the rent anymore that they invented this new scam?

randian · 29 Jul 2014, 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by atikovi

Seems I get a dozen a day in my main folder, not spam folder, saying I've been offered a job at Google, FOX, Facebook, etc. paying $90K a year. Obviously I don't click on the links, but what are they selling or what is the scam? The $10M inheritance scams just not paying the rent anymore that they invented this new scam?

I get lots of spam from life insurance companies allegedly offering jobs who got my email address from Monster/Cybercoders.

William9 · 29 Jul 2014, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by atikovi

... what are they selling or what is the scam? ...

It's not what they are selling, but what they attempt to take from you. I've never received one of these messages, but I would guess that they will ask you for personal information for their "human resources department".

xmailer · 30 Jul 2014, 12:20 AM

Here's an article about online job scams which suggests a number of possibilities.

7 Telltale Signs of a Job Scam: http://t.co/nm9Q9ne1Wm

Tsunami · 1 Sep 2014, 01:05 AM

The sad thing is, if an email provider really has a job vacancy, then it's easily going to be considered to be spam too.

In general, ignore such emails. If you somehow feel like the offer could be real, then try to find the vacancy on the providers' own homepage. If for example Yahoo had a real vacancy, then I'm sure it's rather to be found on the Yahoo homepage than in emails sent around to random people.

27 Jul 2014, 02:57 AM	#1
atikovi Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 88	What are all these emails offering employment? Seems I get a dozen a day in my main folder, not spam folder, saying I've been offered a job at Google, FOX, Facebook, etc. paying $90K a year. Obviously I don't click on the links, but what are they selling or what is the scam? The $10M inheritance scams just not paying the rent anymore that they invented this new scam?

30 Jul 2014, 12:20 AM	#4
xmailer Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: USA Posts: 5,485	Here's an article about online job scams which suggests a number of possibilities. 7 Telltale Signs of a Job Scam: http://t.co/nm9Q9ne1Wm

1 Sep 2014, 01:05 AM	#5
Tsunami The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: in between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown Posts: 2,341	The sad thing is, if an email provider really has a job vacancy, then it's easily going to be considered to be spam too. In general, ignore such emails. If you somehow feel like the offer could be real, then try to find the vacancy on the providers' own homepage. If for example Yahoo had a real vacancy, then I'm sure it's rather to be found on the Yahoo homepage than in emails sent around to random people.