Try not to get scammed while looking for work
40 points by trysound
40 points by trysound
The economy is so bad scammers went from offering people money to offering jobs
In all the situations like this I have read about, the point is to get access to the jobseeker's machine to attempt to drain their cryptocurrency accounts.
The variation here is that they phished themselves some access to the actual company's LinkedIn account, adding legitimacy to the meeting request. I can't imagine how it must be for a job seeker to be in such a situation, but damn...
frustration clouds judgment
It's easy to be desperate when you're trying to get a job. You want to be accommodating to get or keep your foot in the door when you've been putting in dozens or hundreds of resumes with no response.
Between Calendly links, companies not running their own job boards (e.g. greenhouse), Zoom, Teams, online assessments, and background checks it's hard to know who and what to trust.