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Ten red flags 🚩 to watch for in fake job offers or interview invitations:

1. Unsolicited : The offer comes out of nowhere, without you applying or even knowing about the company.


2. Poor Grammar and Typos: Emails or messages from reputable companies usually maintain a professional tone, free from excessive grammar mistakes.


3. Unclear Job Description: The job responsibilities are either extremely vague or seem unusually easy for the salary offered.


4. Suspicious Email Address: Offers from generic email addresses (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo) instead of a company domain can indicate a scam.


5. Request for Personal or Financial Information: Legitimate companies don’t ask for sensitive details, like your bank or social security number, early in the process.


6. Unreasonably High Salary or Benefits: If the salary or benefits sound too good to be true for the job requirements, it’s worth questioning.


7. Pressure to Respond Quickly: Scammers may create urgency, pushing you to respond immediately, sign contracts, or provide information without time to consider.


8. Request for Payment: Being asked to pay for training, software, or “processing fees” is a significant red flag.


9. Interview via Messaging Apps: While some companies use video calls, interviews via text or messaging apps (like Telegram or WhatsApp) are unusual for most legitimate employers.


10. Inconsistent Company Details: Check the company’s website, LinkedIn, and other official profiles. If the information, logo, or employees listed are inconsistent with what’s being presented, it may be fake.


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If the address is Fadeyi

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Emkoy:

lolz, u never get ur shoe sole ripped out from SUBMITTING CV after 1 yr NYSC & 6+6+8 YEARS from SCHOOL is a SCAM TENURE

God bless the IDF



IRGC go lurn

Awon GNLD 🤓

Haha . Fadeyi oloro

ymdo:
If the address is Fadeyi

You are on point

ymdo:
If the address is Fadeyi

You see that Fadeyi address eh, OMG! I hear am for their hand back in 2014/2015 when they kept bombarding me with invites. In 2014, i had to travel from Bayelsa where i was serving to Lagos for a supposed interview only to find out it was one of those we will fly to to South Africa, all expense paid, we will give you a brand new car, see pictures if those who traveled last year and all those bruhaha.


Those guys no go make heaven o

I can relate ..

People should be writing the names of the organizations they know are scam..

One day like that I just received an email out of the blue , that one London real estate academy is inviting me for an interview, I check all the jobs I applied for , nothing like that and they have a legit website and everything. Another red flag when we begin the interview they off their camera , it was a virtual interview, I couldn’t see them .Another red flag is that in the first mail they sent me , they didn’t mention the name of their company. As I begin talking and mentioning the name of their organization I noticed that they are not comfortable they didn’t know I have email the person that invited me for the interview asking for the name of their organization . They quickly said there’s an error somewhere and they said goodbye .


E no go better for them wherever they are right now .

Noted

Any job vacancy that is printed on A4 paper and pasted on people's fences on the road.

offering you a computer (laptop) and other tech gadgets to help you do the job while asking you for your bank details so they can pay you some amount to help you buy things in preparation for the job - and they have neither seen you before nor had a phone conversation before

If the address is Awolowo way Ikeja

Haha

I have one from London.
Infact, they sent me the Congratulatory message today...from Tedstone Oil

I'm so scared of the country now that I don't even want to lift a finger or make a move!

FatimaAbubakar:
Any job vacancy that is printed on A4 paper and pasted on people's fences on the road.

Beware of Africope

E.g Qnet

People still fall for these? Thank God I’d rather stay unemployed than get scammed.

EstherB for example

If Nairalanders don't really have any idea about the company, it is most likely a scam.

Do your due diligence, try and check if their staff have professional presence online like LinkedIn.

Inform people you are going for an interview, give people their address and the number(s) they provided.

GNLD nko?

FashionCookie:
GNLD nko?

Please what is their way of scamming, I have one now, but don't know if they are the one, around berger area Sha.

RESPECT002:


Please what is their way of scamming, I have one now, but don't know if they are the one, around berger area Sha.

I don't really know how to put it but there are topics about them here on Nairaland.

Emkoy:

11. Fake employment letter from day 1 of test/interview

12. Salary is too good to be true

13. Unsecured company website

RESPECT002:


Please what is their way of scamming, I have one now, but don't know if they are the one, around berger area Sha.

Ask you to pay for form

Oba Akran, that place is notorious