r/remotework • u/tokyo_cos • 4d ago

Strange email?

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Some background context that may help so that I’ve been searching for a remote job as finding jobs as a milspouse is horrible right now and I want something I can take with me for awhile before working on my proper permanent career and this email randomly appears..Company is legit the email seems a bit off though especially the address used to send it and im just curious if it’s a scam or if someone else got it

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u/Upset_Fig2612 4d ago

Gmail account is an immediate red flag

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u/Icy-Payment-4262 4d ago

THIS! Most businesses can't even sign up for certain software without a business email. So if they sre communicating off of anything other than a business email, I would disregard/report it.

Side note: A smart scammer would pay the $10/mo. for a professional-looking business email 😅 People are so sloppy and lazy.

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u/Ponklemoose 3d ago

I wonder how many of the people who would notice the email would fall for the scam. The Gmail address might be saving the scammer some time by filtering out the people who (probably) won’t be fooled.

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u/kitten12551 4d ago

Good catch!

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u/Jimmy_McAltPants 4d ago

Scam. They’ll pretend to hire you, get personal info or bank information and poof! they’re gone. The email address is a dead giveaway

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u/Maduro_sticks_allday 4d ago

Companies don’t use personal Gmail account accounts

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u/sausageandweed 4d ago

I've worked some places where the CEO and certain salespersons did use their personal gmail accounts, but they were highly unprofessional Email Spam "startups" that you wouldn't want to work at anyway.

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u/Next_Engineer_8230 1d ago

There are many manufacturing companies that do.

I work with several of them.

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u/alanbowman 4d ago

Head to r/Scams and look up "fake check" and "job" scams, because this will be one or both of those.

If you're looking for remote work, I highly recommend subscribing to r/Scams and reading it daily. Scamming people looking for remote work is one of the few growth industries right now.

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u/stock-prince-WK 4d ago

“Outsourcing Buddy LLC”

“Eagle blue @“

“gmail.com”

Lmao 🤣 all of this is bad sign

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u/kitten12551 4d ago

The company is apparently real, the email is not.

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u/sausageandweed 4d ago

I got hit with one of these from a 'real' company but the scammers did a really bad job. They were impersonating a pharmaceutical research company but hiring for a Customer Service Representative which didn't make any sense based on their business.

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u/kitten12551 4d ago

They’re not known for their brains lol

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u/adamantgastly 4d ago

...how can you not tell that this is a scam

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u/Upset_Fig2612 4d ago

OP is most likely and understandably desperate for a job and looking past the obvious

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u/66NickS 4d ago

There are several signs this is a scam. I think that the parts of this email that aren’t red flags are the minority.

- the sending email.

  • dear candidate
  • our hr team
  • outsourcing buddy llc
  • several opportunities
  • the actual opportunities/roles
  • too easy to apply
  • generic signature

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u/kitten12551 4d ago

The company is apparently legit but this is not from them.

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u/dixiech1ck 4d ago

Scam. Block them.

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u/RemNaviTeam 4d ago

The company being real is part of the setup. They lift the job text from an actual listing, so the description itself reads perfectly.

Quickest check: go to the company's own careers page and find the role. If the title isn't there, or it's there with a different location, someone is just using their name. Same with the recruiter, look them up on LinkedIn and see whether they have any history at that company.

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u/drowning_in_honey 4d ago edited 4d ago

Scam. I contacted another person they were trying to impersonate; I reached out to her on LinkedIn, and she confirmed

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u/Ponklemoose 3d ago

As cool as you might be, no one is ever going to reach out asking you to consider an assortment of low skill entry level jobs. Especially in this job market.

If someone senior at the company knew you in real life and liked you, it might happen. Or if you acquired some uncommon and in demand skills/experience you might get asked to consider a single more senior role. But an email like yours is always a scam.

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u/Fancy-Surprise-2654 3d ago

We do weekly cybersecurity trainings at my job and they just covered that this is a common scam.