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[-] siderealyear@lemmy.world 81 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Something else to be aware of is compromised LinkedIn profiles. I was recently contacted by a very real looking profile on LinkedIn, who was supposedly recruiting for a very real position at a very real company that the profile actually worked for. Red flags were:

  1. Bad english/spelling in messages
  2. Compensation a little too good to be true
  3. Sounded too easy to 'get' the job
  4. Person's job title had nothing to do with recruitment until very recently
  5. 'Application form' they sent me looked a little bogus

They wanted me to fill out a form with all my info., including SSN, and send photocopies of my ID. When I asked for an email address at the company in question to send everything to, they ghosted me.

Yikes, that one almost got me. Advice here is to always manually 'two factor' identify people who contact you out of the blue.

Safe hunting folks.

[-] siderealyear@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Yep, my kid is just starting to fool around with Minecraft and every time we play, I launch the client from the command line. Planting the seeds...

[-] siderealyear@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

You're supporting the wrong Amazon.

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siderealyear

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