THANK GOD I HAVE WORKED IN CORPORATE THE MAJORITY OF MY LIFE.

i had to put that in all caps for the following.
i nearly would have gotten scammed if i wasn’t paying attention today.
this wasn’t an entry i planned on writing today but:

I’m going to teach The Foxhole how to look out for scams.

tl;dr: i am looking for a WFH part-time job.
a friend sent me a link to “career vault“,
a site dedicated to WFH positions.
when i applied for a data entry position at ymca south florida,
it took me to a gmail account to send my resume/cover letter.
i found that odd but the response was when i called cap…

• • There was no signature in the response email.
    Every HR Manager I have had contacts with always had a signature.
    It lists email, phone number, Linkedin, and other information of contact.
  • The grammar was awful.
    No one in HR writes a response email like this and even if they did,
    why would I want to work for them?

my foxy senses pinged weirdly about the whole correspondence.
even tho i saw 30 dollars an hour,
i was hesitant to share my information.
this is when i tied it all together:

• • HR would have scheduled an interview with me to discuss all those details.
  • When I went to Google that person I had to contact via Teams,
    nothing came up.
  • The YMCA South Florida all have assigned emails to the company.
    HR would have been “[email protected]” or something.

ugh.
that really burned me because i got very excited but oh well.

lowkey: these companies need to do a better job of filtering scams.
this is really gross that people looking for work at subjected to this.