I just wasted scammers' time by pretending to fall for their LinkedIn job offer.
Few days ago got message from a stranger account, 500+ connections, employee of EOS Venezuela Block Producers. Company page looked real with 80+ followers, California headquarters, multiple employees listed.
But something felt wrong from start. My curiosity won. Decided to play along.
After I shared my resume, they asked for a test assignment. Connected me with another person via Teams who shared "Node application" source code and asked to run it. Long story short, there was a a malicious code download script hidden in tasks.json for VSCode.
Don't trust outsiders, challenge their statements:
- Take time to think before doing anything
- If someone too excited to give you job this is a 🚩
- Never run code from strangers
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