by WhatTheHeck
Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:52 am
Made the mistake of allowing LinkedIn to publish my cell phone number. Woke up to an SMS message from yahoo user "[email protected]" saying "hello and how are you today." Alarm bells ringing, I didn't respond to the SMS on my phone (a user may only send you 1 SMS message if you don't reply), but did create a Yahoo account just to ask them who they were.
The person introduced (him or her)-self as "Mr. Spencer Robinson, Personnel Manager at BluRyder Tech." S/he was insistent I accept the friend invite, which I didn't and was honest about why. I did some research about the company and found another warning on Scam Warners, as well as references to the company's name actually being "BlurYder Tech" so I'm not sure what that's about, but when I asked "Spencer" for more info about the company, he sent me only the mailing address. S/he became impatient at my hesitation and asked me "are you here for the interview or not?" to which I replied that I wasn't aware there was an interview, that I had never applied for a job at said company, and I'm not interested in working in CA.
"Spencer" persisted. "This is a work at home or anywhere position..." and I promptly terminated the chat and deleted my temporary Yahoo account.
I later found an email sent to the email account I use for job search purposes, also from a yahoo user, saying to set up Yahoo chat for a job interview with BluRyder Tech. Became curious again and did more web search on the company. I found a website, but it's (of course) "down for maintenance" and I really don't believe it's real.
1. Mined my info from LinkedIn (I have since deleted my cell number from my profile).
2. Inconsistencies in spelling of company name.
3. Tech company has no LinkedIn profile.
4. "Hiring Manager" showed much patience and persistence to my reluctance and rather cold responses.
5. Flooded multiple contact methods - cell phone, email, messenger.
6. Contacts me from Yahoo messenger, not from a company server account.
7. Is a "work at home or anywhere position".
8. Need I say more?
Please don't fall for it.
The person introduced (him or her)-self as "Mr. Spencer Robinson, Personnel Manager at BluRyder Tech." S/he was insistent I accept the friend invite, which I didn't and was honest about why. I did some research about the company and found another warning on Scam Warners, as well as references to the company's name actually being "BlurYder Tech" so I'm not sure what that's about, but when I asked "Spencer" for more info about the company, he sent me only the mailing address. S/he became impatient at my hesitation and asked me "are you here for the interview or not?" to which I replied that I wasn't aware there was an interview, that I had never applied for a job at said company, and I'm not interested in working in CA.
"Spencer" persisted. "This is a work at home or anywhere position..." and I promptly terminated the chat and deleted my temporary Yahoo account.
I later found an email sent to the email account I use for job search purposes, also from a yahoo user, saying to set up Yahoo chat for a job interview with BluRyder Tech. Became curious again and did more web search on the company. I found a website, but it's (of course) "down for maintenance" and I really don't believe it's real.
1. Mined my info from LinkedIn (I have since deleted my cell number from my profile).
2. Inconsistencies in spelling of company name.
3. Tech company has no LinkedIn profile.
4. "Hiring Manager" showed much patience and persistence to my reluctance and rather cold responses.
5. Flooded multiple contact methods - cell phone, email, messenger.
6. Contacts me from Yahoo messenger, not from a company server account.
7. Is a "work at home or anywhere position".
8. Need I say more?
Please don't fall for it.
