My friend in Seattle got a job offer from a company that doesn't exist, and it was all AI.

Last week, she got an email with a full offer letter for a remote data job, good pay and benefits. The company name and website looked real, but when she looked closer, the people listed as her bosses were made up and the site was just a copy of another real company's page. It was a scam using AI to write everything and copy real logos. Has anyone else seen these fake job offers popping up more?

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claire8721mo agoOG Member

Did she check the email address it came from? Those are always from weird domains. Tell her to never click any links in those things.

logan_mitchell1mo ago

Ugh, it's wild how normal this stuff looks now. My own mom almost fell for one that looked exactly like her bank's login page.

emery2901mo ago

Wait, was the email actually from a weird domain or did it just look official enough that she didn't think to check? That's the scary part to me, because these scammers have gotten so good at mimicking real companies. Like, they'll use something like "support@chase-secure-login.com" and people's eyes just glaze over. My own grandma almost fell for one that looked exactly like her utility company's billing email, and the only thing that stopped her was that the logo was slightly pixelated. I think we need to be teaching people to look at the actual sender address, not just the display name. It's exhausting how much work it takes just to avoid getting scammed these days.