Unemployed Phishing

 

Being unemployed, I’m used to occasionally getting weird messages. MLMs thrive off of people who are terrible when it comes to math and exponential growth and dangle perks in front of you. “Wouldn’t you just love to go on a cruise that’s been paid for by the company?” No, I wouldn't Then there are the scammers offering obscene amounts of money for work that isn’t worth anything of the sort. Yet they often don’t even do the basic research. Simply asking them what their organization does has them shut down and just repeat that they’ll tell me at another date.

 

This time around, I got another one of those scammers. They pretended to be a legit company and even registered a domain that was similar but misspelled. So, they clearly put a bit more work into this. They invited me to a video interview and this piqued my interest. How would these scammers pretend to be someone else? Would there be a deepfake of the person? Or will they merely turn off their video and audio, and insist that something is wrong on their end and thus the meeting should continue via chat? I’m inquisitive by nature and can’t help but wonder. Hence why I play along with these scammers (plus, it’s not like I have anything better to do. Why not waste their time and hopefully save someone from being scammed in the mean time?)

 

So, with all this planning, the domain being registered, a document explaining what they’re hiring for and the office equipment being supplied (though the address at the bottom was incorrect. The organization was located on the East Coast, the document had it listed in California and no, it wasn’t a satellite office, I checked), I was eager to see how things would progress this time. Only, they didn’t. See, in order to have a meeting online, you need to set one up. But, for all the prep they did in trying to convince me they were legit, they forgot the most basic part, actually putting the time in to create a meeting and giving the other person that unique ID so they can join. Talk about fumbling the ball at the 1-yardline.

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