Ingo Steinke is a Berlin-based senior web developer focusing on front-end web development to create and improve websites and make the web more accessible, sustainable, and user-friendly.
It's becoming easier to fake job vacancies and impersonate coworkers or recruiters, so it's more important than ever to listen to our gut feelings, double check and dare to say no before someone cheats us in a desperate situation.
I wrote this comment also as a reminder to myself. Despite my professional experience, I got involved in a discussion that turned out a fake similar to your fake HR interview.
In my case, the fake bot didn't act as a recruiter, but as a customer, allegedly a founder of a new product. They produced a reason to prefer Slack over zoom and announced they'd proceed with a NDA and a VPS access to a preview to the backend of a "maintenance mode" placholder website. The chat felt like talking to AI, and forwarding it to Google Gemini together with their LinkedIn profile provided further red flags within seconds. The cover story didn't add up, while too many aspects were typical for a scam like that.
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It's becoming easier to fake job vacancies and impersonate coworkers or recruiters, so it's more important than ever to listen to our gut feelings, double check and dare to say no before someone cheats us in a desperate situation.
I wrote this comment also as a reminder to myself. Despite my professional experience, I got involved in a discussion that turned out a fake similar to your fake HR interview.
In my case, the fake bot didn't act as a recruiter, but as a customer, allegedly a founder of a new product. They produced a reason to prefer Slack over zoom and announced they'd proceed with a NDA and a VPS access to a preview to the backend of a "maintenance mode" placholder website. The chat felt like talking to AI, and forwarding it to Google Gemini together with their LinkedIn profile provided further red flags within seconds. The cover story didn't add up, while too many aspects were typical for a scam like that.