When talking with "recruiters" everyone needs to be careful. As many have also spoken about scams or identity theft I literally ran into a new one. A "recruiter" recently reached out to me about a potential role. Role sounded good so showed interest. Spoke with this person, not to mention no LinkedIn picture, and got some more info. Role was sounding better and better. They send me an email with instructions to "create a profile" on the platform for their "talent pool". As this all sounds odd I go check me email. I noticed in the email the username had my Gmail as the username but instead of "@gmail.com" it has "@googlemail.com" so there is a giant red flag. I put in the username and the generated password. On the "create new password page" I made sure to create a super unique password as well. The next page is where the line was drawn and the red lights flashed so hard. Within the next page was a "agreement" where this company wanted me to waive basically all my rights and claims for the future. Immediately exited the site and now doing a full system scan for Malware/Viruses. Went over and did a Google search to find 10 open legal cases against this specific company. All dealing with "Salary Withholdings", "Force Labor/Unpaid Work" and "Previous Employment to be Recalled". Within this agreement there was also a clause of "Waiving your right to Jury Duty..." but from what I gathered this company was making people sign away their lives to the company and even after separation the company could recall you at any moment. Please everyone read any agreement before just blindly agreeing. No job is worth signing your life away. #redflag #awareness #scam
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