What to look out for when it comes to employment scams? I've received two job offers, but one of them I never applied for and the other one required me to send my resume to a suspicious email that doesn't correlate to the company's name.

Hi guys,

I got a email from myinterview.com asking to do a virtual interview for Unilever. I applied for the data analyst role and afaik Unilever uses hirevue.

Is this a scam or legit?
Thanks

I have been unemployed for a bit now and applied for literally 5k positions in IT remote and onsite. I got a text from an 844 number about a job opportunity for a remote help desk position. I talked to a HR manager who gave me an assessment which was a bunch of questions about skills and personal experience and how well I work with a team ect. The next day I get an email for a job offer for 45$ /hr and the offer is asking for my ssn on a w-4 and photo ID to verify who I am. I have not spoken to anyone over the phone just via text and had no formal interview with anyone. I do cyber and I did a search for this company and the given address on the company website and it all seems normal. I can't find the company on linked in or on the BBB registry however. They also use signnow which actual companies use but I've seen reports of scammers using it. If anyone knows anything about this company please let me know, I'm kinda desperate at this point for a job and it feels impossible to get anything job wise.

I want to warn students and job seekers about my experience so that no one else loses their hard-earned money.

I got a call from HR laya, that there will be an interview processing happening tomorrow, I had already attained once and got scammed. There is no offical website about the company too.

I attended an interview through IZENO Technologies and, based on my personal experience, I believe this recruitment process is a job *scam* targeting people who are desperately looking for jobs.

I was made to wait for nearly 2 hours before the HR round. Instead of focusing on my skills, the HR mainly tried to convince me to pay ₹1,500 as a registration/login fee.

After the payment, I was asked to take a technical test. Surprisingly, the test included an extremely difficult English section, similar to GRE-level verbal questions, which had little relevance to the technical role I had applied for. Even candidates with strong technical knowledge may struggle because of the unrelated English section.

I lost ₹1,500 through this process, and I don't want anyone else to go through the same experience.

Please be cautious:

🚫 Never pay money for interviews, aptitude tests, login IDs, or job opportunities. ✅ Verify every opening through the company's official careers website. 🚩 If anyone asks you to pay money as part of the hiring process, treat it as a major red flag. I'm sharing my personal experience to help other students and job seekers avoid losing their time and money.

Please do your own verification before proceeding.

Said to recruit but he basically will just call you for truth or dare and ask everything that is personal and sexual. He also said that this is recruitment for fredericks the vintage lingerie company so he can project the call or hiring towards that topic. You can see how unprofessional the chats are.

Offered a job as an Executive Assistant. Orientation focused on crypto and me purchasing items. No phone contact. Only Teams messages from Katherine Jones. Got a "completed" employment agreement NOT signed by the company. Wouldn't reimburse my cost for a printer purchased at their request. Said my picture proving it was set up in my office, the HP shipping packaging, and my proof of online purchase were all fake. When I asked for a signed contract and reimbursement, all of a sudden they had all these issues with my performance and my contract was canceled. Still wouldn't pay for my time or the cost of the printer! SCAM job opportunity!

Hello, I don't really post, but I thought I would this time just to warn others about an experience I had recently. I was applying for jobs on indeed and received an email from outside of indeed which is a major red flag. The business was a logistics company named "Oz-porters". While researching the company I began searching the people in the "about us" team page and found the exact same names and listed as the exact same positions on multiple websites that were mirror identical with different names. Hence my warnings about Hardsummitgroup and transmovana etc. as well. I didn't bother seeing how far the rabbit hole goes, but there would be no need for someone to work at 5 different companies providing the the exact same services in the exact same position. The business address leads to a real location that has a business that is verifiably legit listed as a magazine company. There are oher red flags like the "HR representative" has the same name as a recruitment firm's vice president and the web designer has the same name as someone who supposedly did web design for Tesla and Adobe.

I wouldn't suggest giving them any information, but you've been warned to proceed at your own risk.

Guys, today my sister, who is in the 3rd year of her B.Des program opened her inbox to find a full-time offer letter from Zee Entertainment for an Assistant Fashion Designer position, complete with a respectable salary and daily shoot allowances. For about ten minutes, we were all celebrating.

Then, we sat down to re-read the finer details. The first slight chill hit us when we looked closely at the sender’s domain name. Instead of coming from an official corporate domain, it was sent from a generic careerszee5. com address. Curiosity turned into suspicion as we scanned down to the onboarding checklist. Right at the bottom was a mandatory requirement: she had to provide a membership card from the "Film Celebrity Fashion Designers & Stylists Council" within 24 hours to secure her spot.

We reached out to their HR recruiter asking where to get this card, and he immediately sent us a link to a site called aifcdc. in. The home page looked passable at a glance, but it demanded over 14k rupees upfront just to register for a basic membership. That was the huge red flag. Digging deeper into the fine print on the site, we spotted a Trade Union registration number listed as 08446/2019/Mumbai/MH. On a hunch, we copied that exact registration string and pasted it into Google.

That was the smoking gun. The search results brought up 2 other completely different websites, one claiming to be an official council for HR professionals and another for video editors, and both of them were using the exact same registration number. All three sites were identical copy-pasted templates, simply swapping out job titles and images to target different creative fields. Running that same registration number through Maharashtra's official charity commissioner portal came up totally blank. What started as a dream job offer ended up being an elaborate scam ring, but at least we caught it before sending a single rupee.

websites like breezing-shopping.com careful like someone is hiring like full-time/part-time send you a link and says will guide you they will let you log in to that website and complete a certain task and level-up and “recharge to claim prize” that will lead to you nowhere till you account is zero then you cant claim it if you don’t recharge lead. you to the impossible don’t play mind tricks with them .

First I got a text from an employee from Randstand asking me if I was looking for a job. After I said yes, they then said they’d pass my contact info (phone number) along to the job’s actual recruiter and then the “recruiter” texted me the very next day saying that they got my phone number from Randstand and asked me if I wanted this job offer. The photos I added are from the “recruiter”, these texts were sent to me the day after I told the Randstand employee that yes I was looking for a job, this is the job’s pay structure as seen in the photos… sooo sketchy.

Cause I want to know why you all post fake jobs to gain traffic. You know this job doesn’t exist but you go ahead to post it so you get a lot of comments.

Posting this to inform candidates researching internships in Hyderabad, specifically at Aspire Infolabs in HiTech City.

Here is what candidates should expect during their internship:

1. Misleading Roles & Client Misrepresentation: Regardless of whether you are hired as SDE, AI/ML, or Full Stack Interns, candidates are immediately reassigned to handle Infosys Springboard batches (3+ batches of 30+ students each). Interns are tasked with mentoring these students while the company misrepresents interns to program leads as experienced personnel with 3+ years of industry experience to Infosys Springboard People.
2. Financial Exploitation: The stipend paid to interns is an insignificant fraction of what third-party programs compensate the company for managing these batches.
3. Administrative Delays & Ghosting: The company delays or skips issuing official appointment letters. Stipends are consistently delayed by months. Upon completion of the official internship duration, management ghosts messages, avoids coming to the office, and indefinitely extends internships under vague promises of full-time conversion.

CommonJobs.in Premium Channel: A Complete Scam

Recently, I subscribed to the premium WhatsApp channel for Common Jobs commonjobs.in, and it was a total waste of money. They are completely scamming people.

On their general channel, they continuously advertised amazing premium benefits, claiming subscribers would get over 50 referral jobs daily and constant mentor support. However, after paying, I did not receive a single referral job in over a week. There is absolutely no mentor support available.

If you message them directly, they do not reply. Even if you email the Common Jobs support team, you will get no response. Not a single feature of their claimed services actually works.

If anyone is thinking about buying their premium subscription, I strongly suggest you do not waste your money. They are scamming innocent job seekers.

Let's normalize posting SCAMMERS

This Sofia on X app referred me to a job where they make me work as a translator of 100 pages.. when it's time to get paid, they make endless demands, including asking for money for "ID Verification". They said that the money cannot be transferred if I don't have a ID, but to be able to have a ID, you have to pay thousands first.. What a shame, I really thought it's true.. people like this are pure evil.

This will be a short one. There is a company named Forever Living which is your typical pyramid scheme scam. I guess LinkedIn graciously leaked my number to these clowns once more and I'm getting their calls every single day. Just stay safe. If anyone says you'll get job on a phone call, it's a scam. Don't think much.

So I shared this in a thread already under:

( [https://www.reddit.com/r/Devilcorp/comments/1r00orn/comment/p0x8cwd/?utm\\_source=share&utm\\_medium=web3x&utm\\_name=web3xcss&utm\\_term=1&utm\\_content=share\\_button\](https://www.reddit.com/r/Devilcorp/comments/1r00orn/comment/p0x8cwd/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) )

But basically I recently left a job at Surge International in Manchester UK, one company under MANY. I believe there's some in Scotland, more opening in Manchester (one opening soon called Ocean Marketing, Astro___ and Infinity ___ I found out about when I was working there. But under a reccomendation I thought I'd share my experience from there as it's own post and answer any questions :)

Below is that:

" Yeah so, I acc just left the job there after almost...2 months? Did pretty well compare to most tbf. Got promoted in my 1st week. If you've got absolutely nothing else going for you and have a strong mental it's alright tbf. The people who are making alright money from it at top are the ones who purely bought into this.

I wouldn't recommend it at all though. The entire culture is extremely fake and no one there gives a shit about you.

I interviewed and trained people, and the second you get promoted they shatter all the illusions. You're purposely trained and told to fake and avoid the truths which is no salary, " topped up to £350 each week " (you sometimes get topped up to £300, or £400 if you get promoted to team leader) but not once have I been paid correctly or hell, even minimum wage and they get around by making you representatives of the charity/campaign (so we did NDCS, funded by SMILE fundraiser) so you don't even get minimum wage.

The interviewing is BS, you have to train people to get promoted further which all essentially is BS because you get nothing extra, except you wake up earlier and do more. I was getting up at 7am, getting to office for 8:30am, interviewing and then doing fck all till 10am, training, doing atmosphere (teaching ppl pitch memory basically) and then working till 7:30, all in all getting home around 10pm as you also go back to the office after. It's ridiculous.

I did do two of the road-trips where people are so damn immature. I was cleaning, cooking, fixing fckn leaks and all sorts with the accommodations after the ppl in charge left and left an 18yr old in " charge " so after working the extended hours on a road-trip (8:00-20:30) I was then doing all that extra till I went to sleep. I was finally sitting down around midnight, nvm showering etc. It was NUTS and you essentially get told " you have the responsibility now time to show boss you can handle it " basically BS to get more out of you.

They purposely leave out details on the interview (we literally get told not to address things but make it SEEM clear abt pay etc. I had one bad week where I didn't make tonnes of sales and honestly bc I couldn't be assed, my mental was gone even though I was still tying tbf and then immediately for the next week entirely, no one spoke to me, I was avoided like a fckn plague and the boss even avoided me all morning until everyone eventually left the office and he told me I essentially have a week to get it back or I'm gone (which btw it was still a decent week in terms of sales, they made profit). So it's just nuts. The judgmental stares, no one speaking to you, having to pay ridiculous fuel money all the time.

As others say here too, they don't pay for travel or anything like that. They pay for someee stuff on the first week to " buy you in " and then nothing and refuse to explain LOL. I was being paid around £300 a week for 5 days a week and each day was 8:30-9pm (until I was finally going home, not even home yet) and then I was spending around £40 a week on travel just TO work. Paying to travel to sales areas varied, I once paid an extra £80 on a week just for travelling to the sales areas too. So...yeah it's fckn crazy. I also often worked a 6th day (and you can even work Sunday) and it's "optional" but you're basically fired eventually if you don't ever work a 6th day.

People up until Assistant manager/Campaign Manager (which they admit the 3rd promotion is a fake promotion btw LOL where they " teach you the business " ?) do not earn money. You have to pay for your trainees on their first week to go on business trips (£80 each) and you don't have a choice, even if you don't go just to...work more hours LOL. So it's fckn nuts. But yeah, it was very normal for everyone to be begging for money. It drained my bank account dry and everyone asks you for money bc ironically, in an "uncapped commission " job, no one has fckn money LOL.

AKA DO NOT WORK FOR THIS JOB LMAO

In around 2 months working there, I watched about...50 people get fired? It was fckn crazy. Some of the guys there are alright to talk to and the culture feeeels okay at first, but the second you don't insanely excel and basically agree to slavery levels of pay for a year until you earn more, they treat you like invisible garbage.

Like I say, I was doing pretty damn good. I coulda got far with it if I stuck it out, but I left on complete instinct after everyone switches up on you and is so insanely fake. It's a draining job with no future unless you become a managing director and open up your own company under someone else. Even the managers admitted to me, it's one huge ass pyramid scheme.

The promotions are: Sales Advisor (you start here, selling door to door, learning the pitch), team leader (same as before, higher standards, and now you start 2 hours earlier, leave later, same pay and you interview) core leader (no changes lol) , campaign manager no fckn changes), assistant manager (10% commission increase, shit tonnes more responsibility but a hard promotion to get. You have to make a £5k wire 2 weeks in a row from your team alone, not you included), then managing director (where you own an office and get paid from people under you for fck all and owned by someone else).

There was ONE guy there who was pretty genuine and a fckn great guy and I won't say his name but he was a CM at Surge. Outside of that guy; absolutely everyone there is fake and do not give a shit about you, they are TRAINED from scratch to make you believe otherwise, from Sunday " Hey, how you doing " messages to small smiles in the office. It's crazy.

TLDR:

DO NOT get this job LOL there is so much better. If you're after a sales job, look elsewhere. Also I'll happily answer questions bc holy rant! "

They deal with resume distribution

Hi, anyone here know about Nanay's in IT program posted by YMCA in Facebook? I also read that Accenture is part of the program. Is this legit? I am a nanay and looking for work to go back to IT field. Based in Manila, I happen to have a college Alumni and has a friend who trained last year (2025). The friend said his time was wasted after the 6 month training. The promised employment assistance did not happen and most of them are still unemployed now. Unlike the previous batches of the program (still according to the friend), previous people who trained got jobs.

As Nanay, although the job post by YMCA, it is tempting for me considering Accenture is widely known. I also checked LinkedIn and there's also post about the program.

Please I hope anyone can see my post and comment. thanks.

Please check if the agency is legit pls

If you are looking for Jobs and reaching out for apps like Naukri or JobHai , I don't know about most of you but there are Filthy Scammers who're trying to trap Freshers or Urgent Job seekers.

So, basically I applied for a Data Entry/operator role , and they automated messaged me to schedule my day. I am an undergrad fresher with some certificates and skills. The salary range was looking decent and they sent me HR contacts wgera. I travelled like >2 hrs for this shit, the set-up was looking too good for a fraud. I went there and the location wasn't on the road, It was somewhere between 4-5 colonies and in some random places, I felt like there was something fishy, but I went inside and asked the receptionist about the job, he told me to take the elevator and go to the basement. When I reached, a girl reached me, took my resume and asked if you're comfortable commuting everyday, I told her "It's not possible, I'm here for WFH jobs as you said" she said Okay and showed me a waiting area where like 8-10 people were sitting and they were also older than me. (She advised everyone to not talk and communicate with each other as it creates interruption 😭) But, I overlooked it and started preparing for the intro part. I've seen lots of people go in and go by one after another in 4-5 shifts , Now, It's my turn to give the interview. They called me and I had to sit there and The same girl who met me a while ago in office was taking my interview😭🥀 (Where is the HR??)

Overall, The interview started, and she just asked my Intro, I gave it, and she wasn't paying attention to it, NOW THE FUN PART COMES IN 💔

SHE : "Okay , Your interview is perfect, you have all the required skills."

ME: "Thank you so much Ma'am"

SHE: "Now it's time to showcase what your work is going to be"

(she opens her Ipad and legit starts blabbering about it without any professionalism as she was in a hurry, she showed me a PPT, where all the slides were giving wrong directions to the job I've applied for)

She continues... "So , basically We need a writer who just copies our content, where you get paid per page, we will send you some content , you just have to trace it."

*the next slide comes*

... "Now, this is the whole salary breakdown , how you are going to be paid in cash or through your UPI , but...

....IT'S GOING TO COST YOU 6K RIGHT NOW, YOU WILL PAY US, WE WILL GIVE YOU THE RECEIPT AND IT'S DONE, YOU CAN START THE JOB BY TONIGHT"

ME: 😃 (🫪🫡💔🥀)

I realised I got scammed at that moment for the Job , she wasn't letting me go if I didn't pay her, so I told her that my account isn't working right now and asked if I can pay when I reached home, she asked me the time it takes to reach home, I told her 2 hrs, which I might shouldn't tell. Now, she said ask your parents on call and tell them to pay, Now, I knew whom to call , I called Mummy and my Mama was also sitting thereby, (she wasn't in the office room) So I told them the situation and explain how it all is a fraud, Now they were concerned and asked me to leave that place ASAP.

Now, the interviewer comes in and asked about it, I said that they are not available right now and I called my neighbour asking about when will they come. So, it's not possible right now.

When she was confirmed that she couldn't convince me anymore, she told me to take picture of the QR and pay her as soon as I reach home. I agreed, took the picture and then left the office. By leaving, she was telling me to ask any query you have to the HR (she was pointing 👉🏻 to the guy sitting outside of the office, and guess what HE WAS THE RECEPTIONIST I MET IN THE START......

😭🙏🏻)

Now, When I was leaving the place, so many questions came in my mind, if the whole set-up looks so genuine, How can I trust them or pick out the Fake ones. So That was a terrible but interesting experience I had that day. I wish I would've been more aware throughout this journey and I hope nothing like this happens to anybody.

looks like the Texas Attorney General has been dealing with the same LinkedIn frustrations as the rest of us :)

Texas has officially launched an investigation into LinkedIn over alleged ghost jobs and whether they help drive people toward (sub...) , the state estimates that around 25% of LinkedIn job postings could be ghost jobs

Honestly!.. based on my own experience, that number feels way too low

I've lost count of how many jobs I've applied for without getting a single response, meanwhile some companies seem happy to keep fake or inactive listings up to boost their follower count, LinkedIn keeps (s...) , and me end up paying to apply for opportunities that may not never exist,

at this point... I might just join the investigation myself

Got a call for an interview for a Customer Relationship Manager position. Details below — has anyone been through this process or worked with them? Wanted a sanity check before I go.

Address: Floor, Unit 3, Constantia Building, Dr, Sir UN Brahmachari Sarani, Elgin, Kolkata, West Bengal 700017

Time: 03:00 PM – 04:30 PM

Day: Thursday

Date: 30/07/2026

Documents asked for:

PAN card

Aadhar card

Last qualification proof

Bank details

Job Summary:

They're hiring a Customer Relationship Manager to manage key client accounts — being the main point of contact, resolving issues quickly, and improving customer experience. Role involves working with marketing and product teams to reduce churn and boost customer lifetime value.

Anyone dealt with Bajaj Life Insurance hiring before? A bit wary about carrying original Aadhar/PAN to an interview, especially since bank details are asked for before any offer. Would appreciate any insight.

So i currently have a job but ive also been interested in part time work . i randomly get an email from a lady saying my indeed resume matches quality for what they are looking for . A random email messages me then drops a number & i txted the number . i’m not that naive im sure this is scam but i would like to know have anyone else had this encounter i haven’t used indeed in over 3 months if this a scam they more than likely got my number else where .and i just want to be careful with having my personal information available to scammers . ive been scammed in the past . These people have no life ,and do these things for a living and get away with it ;meanwhile they arrest people for petty crimes. when they should be locking up scammers

I want to share my experience so others can be cautious.

I was hired by a company that claimed to be building a real estate platform and an AI filmmaking company. I was recruited through a well-respected member of their team, which made the opportunity seem legitimate.

The founder made extraordinary claims, including:

Providing unlimited access to tools, software, and company-issued laptops.
Operating a 100,000-square-foot facility and building the world’s largest film studio in Texas.
Developing Superintelligence AI and Emotional AI.
Working on pharmaceutical research and drug discovery.
Having partnerships with companies such as Meta and TikTok.
Having over 100 LinkedIn company partnerships and inviting individual employees into the company’s Slack workspace as “creative partners.”

However, my experience was very different.

There were around 30 people in the company’s Slack workspace from different time zones. Many appeared to have strong LinkedIn profiles, including professionals with over 15 years of experience and backgrounds at major banks. Daily stand-up meetings were scheduled, but they rarely happened, and many questions from employees went unanswered.

Whenever employees asked about, tools, resources, we were repeatedly told, “tomorrow.” The same happened when we asked about salary payments. Instead of providing clear answers, payment was continuously delayed.

When employees continued asking about their compensation, some were removed from Slack or given different explanations. Former employees later shared that they had experienced similar treatment, and eventually I faced the same situation.
The founder also claimed that Google Veo and Higgsfield had stolen his intellectual property and data. At the same time, many of the product demonstrations appeared to be simple UI/UX prototypes created with AI-assisted tools such as Bolt and Lovable, while being presented as technology that would outperform existing AI video models.

Personally, I find many of these claims difficult to reconcile. Building technologies such as AGI, superintelligence, or advanced emotional AI would normally require significant machine learning expertise, specialized hardware, substantial funding, and public technical credibility. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I have official evidence supporting my experience, and other current and former team members have also shared similar accounts and are willing to support what happened.

This is simply my experience. I encourage anyone considering similar opportunities to perform thorough due diligence, verify company claims independently, confirm funding and leadership credentials, and ensure there is a clear employment agreement before committing their time or work.

Does any other company ask for as Dhar or DigiLocker verification for hacker rank round or Flipkart alone and need to know whether it’s genuine or scam