The Second offer
Author: Stefan Waldvogel
How to detect job spam messages?
In this article, I highlight different suspicious job offers.
What can we learn about it? This job offer is good and bad at the same time. The bad thing is, he does not use my name –> it is spam and the easiest form to detect it.
This person never read my profile because the job offer talks about gov’t clouds, and I do not have US citizenship. The second thing is, yes, I have AZ-500, but I do not have AZ-900 or AZ-104. Usually, companies do not hire someone with just the security part without the matching admin background.
The good thing is, he uses an actual business email, so we can use OSINT to get out more of it. Here, it is a waste of time; it is more or less spam/fishing.
If you get a request like this, scrutinize it. If the offer sounds fantastic, why? What is the catch?
Some messages are weird, and it is not clear if it is related to fraud or not. The following picture shows such a message.
This person never read my profile because the job offer talks about gov’t clouds, and I do not have US citizenship. The second thing is, yes, I have AZ-500, but I do not have AZ-900 or AZ-104. Usually, companies do not hire someone with just the security part without the matching admin background.
The good thing is, he uses an actual business email, so we can use OSINT to get out more of it. Here, it is a waste of time; it is more or less spam/fishing.
If you get a request like this, scrutinize it. If the offer sounds fantastic, why? What is the catch?
Some messages are weird, and it is not clear if it is related to fraud or not. The following picture shows such a message.
This message is targeted and but it looks wrong. This person is a military person, uses a non-military writing style (incomplete), and the end is missing. It is written with a lot of "I's."
The message does not contain any value or an actual email. I am not qualified for such a position, and the company is small.
After a couple of days, the account was deleted, it was a scammer.
Other scams look like this:
The message does not contain any value or an actual email. I am not qualified for such a position, and the company is small.
After a couple of days, the account was deleted, it was a scammer.
Other scams look like this:
This account is most likely hacked because nothing matches.
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