Job Application Scams

>>1015864
Got one Indian who cold called and aggressively asked for my passport or drivers license # before I even knew anything about the position. Told her to fuck off. She still had the gall to email me 10 minutes later.

In your case, I'd probably just watch out for any sort of identity theft. It's also quite possible the job was legit and they simply filled the position. Recruiters ask for all sorts of shit.

When I was about 15 years old, I applied for a job on a reputable online jobs board. the vacancy was seeking somebody to work from home doing data entry. the organisation was supposedly German.

they put me to work straight away, and I did a bunch of data entry on a spreadsheet for them. didn't seem too suss at the time.

got paid a week or so later, but before I could spend the cash, my account got frozen by my bank. It was reported that i had stolen funds in my account. Turns out, the company had paid me with funds that they had stolen from a random someone's account. In my statement, the payment read like it was a domestic transaction from one personal account into mine.

I had to go in for a meeting with my bank and hand over evidence of my correspondence, and get it all witnessed by police etc. I was pretty young at the time. I remember being mostly pissed off that the jobs noticeboard would advertise a scam. lesson learned.