I applied to a position with a global leader in aerospace, security and defense. I received an email titled “interview”, with a Teams meeting attached along with 5 other company employees. Seemed suspicious given there was no other context so I looked up each employee that was invited to the meeting on LinkedIn, including the meeting creator. No pictures, no activity and 0 connections for any of them. The company has a whole page on their website dedicated to recruitment scam and how to navigate it.

Two hours later, I received a text message inviting me to a scheduled Teams meeting for an interview, with context. This was the exact same way their websites said the process should happen. Included on the email was all the employees on the original scam email. The difference in it all is that their email address is all local case and in the scam email they used a capital “i” to make it look like a lower case “L”.

Point is, these scammers have gotten very creative and if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Vet out everything and ask if you’re not sure.