Got a random cold call from a very muffled voice, likely outsourced from India. While on the call, he gave me details of the job, pretty standard. But then he did something that no other recruiter ever did before, he told me that he just emailed me a form to fill out.
The form was clearly made by someone very quickly. It seemed to be made, however, by someone that knows English well, but was taught in a different, non-English speaking country, if you catch my drift.
It was strangely formatted and too concise. But the fact that they were asking for SSN and Driver’s License ID was extremely fishy.
But the biggest giveaway was when he asked when was the soonest I could complete the form. I said “in 30 minutes, I have to make some breakfast for my wife.” And he immeidiately hassled me and said “No sir, please get it done as soon as you possibly can as we’re trying to fill the position very fast!”
Rushing someone is one of the biggest signs of a scam, creating a sense of urgency in order to get you to do something illogical without thinking. Especially when preying on SWEs that are hungry for jobs right now.
And even if it isn’t a scam, this is just so unprofessional and rude. I wouldn’t want to work with a recruiter like this or any company that hired a person like this.
Also here’s their site: https://www.anaghatechnosoft.com/index.html
Already the URL is fishy. Professional sites usually don’t use full index.html at their landing page because it looks amateur. All their URLs are like this, with the .html with very low-level, standard names for pages like “about-us.html, contact.html” instead of just “/about-us, /contact”. You probably learned this in a basic HTML course. But these guys didn’t because this is either made with ChatGPT or bought off someone that used ChatGPT.
If you take a look at the sourcecode for any of the pages on the site, it’s all incredibly, incredibly, “1st year CS student” type work. It’s definitely quickly bought off or made with ChatGPT. And the stock photos don’t help.
It’s either legit and very lazy or meant to look real to lure in unsuspecting prey.
Things are really crazy right now in the job market, keep your wits about you, everyone!
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r/cscareerquestions Got a random cold call from a very muffled voice, likely outsourced from India. While on the call, he gave me details of the job, pretty standard. But then he did something that no other recruiter ever did before, he told me that he just emailed me a form to fill out. The form was clearly made by someone very quickly. It seemed to be made, however, by someone that knows English well, but was taught in a different, non-English speaking country, if you catch my drift. It was strangely formatted and too concise. But the fact that they were asking for SSN and Driver’s License ID was extremely fishy. But the biggest giveaway was when he asked when was the soonest I could complete the form. I said “in 30 minutes, I have to make some breakfast for my wife.” And he immeidiately hassled me and said “No sir, please get it done as soon as you possibly can as we’re trying to fill the position very fast!” Rushing someone is one of the biggest signs of a scam, creating a sense of urgency in order to get you to do something illogical without thinking. Especially when preying on SWEs that are hungry for jobs right now. And even if it isn’t a scam, this is just so unprofessional and rude. I wouldn’t want to work with a recruiter like this or any company that hired a person like this. Also here’s their site: https://www.anaghatechnosoft.com/index.html Already the URL is fishy. Professional sites usually don’t use full index.html at their landing page because it looks amateur. All their URLs are like this, with the .html with very low-level, standard names for pages like “about-us.html, contact.html” instead of just “/about-us, /contact”. You probably learned this in a basic HTML course. But these guys didn’t because this is either made with ChatGPT or bought off someone that used ChatGPT. If you take a look at the sourcecode for any of the pages on the site, it’s all incredibly, incredibly, “1st year CS student” type work. It’s definitely quickly bought off or made with ChatGPT. And the stock photos don’t help. It’s either legit and very lazy or meant to look real to lure in unsuspecting prey. Things are really crazy right now in the job market, keep your wits about you, everyone! submitted by /u/yodokogon [link] [comments]
Got a random cold call from a very muffled voice, likely outsourced from India. While on the call, he gave me details of the job, pretty standard. But then he did something that no other recruiter ever did before, he told me that he just emailed me a form to fill out.
The form was clearly made by someone very quickly. It seemed to be made, however, by someone that knows English well, but was taught in a different, non-English speaking country, if you catch my drift.
It was strangely formatted and too concise. But the fact that they were asking for SSN and Driver’s License ID was extremely fishy.
But the biggest giveaway was when he asked when was the soonest I could complete the form. I said “in 30 minutes, I have to make some breakfast for my wife.” And he immeidiately hassled me and said “No sir, please get it done as soon as you possibly can as we’re trying to fill the position very fast!”
Rushing someone is one of the biggest signs of a scam, creating a sense of urgency in order to get you to do something illogical without thinking. Especially when preying on SWEs that are hungry for jobs right now.
And even if it isn’t a scam, this is just so unprofessional and rude. I wouldn’t want to work with a recruiter like this or any company that hired a person like this.
Also here’s their site: https://www.anaghatechnosoft.com/index.html
Already the URL is fishy. Professional sites usually don’t use full index.html at their landing page because it looks amateur. All their URLs are like this, with the .html with very low-level, standard names for pages like “about-us.html, contact.html” instead of just “/about-us, /contact”. You probably learned this in a basic HTML course. But these guys didn’t because this is either made with ChatGPT or bought off someone that used ChatGPT.
If you take a look at the sourcecode for any of the pages on the site, it’s all incredibly, incredibly, “1st year CS student” type work. It’s definitely quickly bought off or made with ChatGPT. And the stock photos don’t help.
It’s either legit and very lazy or meant to look real to lure in unsuspecting prey.
Things are really crazy right now in the job market, keep your wits about you, everyone!
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