Clojurians Log v2

Spammer be gone! 🙂

FWIW http://walmart-jobs.com does not exist as a website (but it's possible email is routed there).

I deleted your post in #jobs -- maybe you meant to post in #jobs-discuss instead?

yeah, I didn't bother checking ... super duper sus

(only job posts go in #jobs)

ah right ... yes, will keep that in mind

Interesting: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsey-finholt-proesel-51b65911/ -- note the warning posted about scammers using Medline...

posted in #jobs-discuss; thank you for all the moderation work, as always 🙇

> The position is moving quickly and will be closing soon. > The urgency smells a lot like a scam/phish.

I know that walmart is indeed very actively hiring for clojure devs, but yes DMing random people is certainly the wrong route 🙂

@ebernard I don't think this is related to Walmart at all, TBH. I think that is the scam...

ah, you’re right. I missed the “a recruiter in my network” bit

Also looks like walmart-jobs DOT com was registered last month.

Oof! 😞

A friend of mine recently got scammed with a fake job. He's been out of work for a while and getting desperate. A "recruiter" contacted him and he went through an interview process and was hired, even tho' they didn't talk about the tech stack (except that it probably wasn't what he was experienced in -- which seemed like a big red flag to me). He got hired, then told he'd need to buy a dedicated laptop (MacBook Pro), a printer, and some specific time-tracking software and they'd reimburse him. He bought all that and they sent him a check -- which bounced. He never actually got any work to do, and he decided to cut his losses at that point. He is based in Hawai'i and the company, GenBio, is based in San Diego. I don't quite understand what the scam was here -- I suspect that after getting him "invested" by spending that amount of money, they planned to offer him bonuses or something for whatever scammy work they needed done, in the hope that he'd keep working "for free" essentially?

(a comment on his Facebook post about it suggests this is a fairly common scam to hook people into scammy jobs...)

That sucks, glad your friend was able to break away before anything bad (or, worse than buying a computer he didn't need, and a printer of all things) happened. The sunk-cost fallacy is a pretty powerful impulse, I can see how that works well for scamming people, but I'm also curious what the end goal could be.

And, of course, he may well have been just dealing with the "recruiter" and GenBio might not even be aware it's being done in their name... just like the Medline thing above...

Yeah, I imagine that's usually the case, pretty easy to just claim affiliation with some random reputable company.

Absolutely.

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