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Has anyone here ever applied for a job listing online and then gotten a reply that is obviously some sort of scam? What do you do about it?

I just applied for a job on craigslist, then almost immediately got a email about it with Indian-tier grammar asking for all my personal information and a lot of weird shit. When i checked craigslist the ad had been deleted. I called the phone number in the email (Which said text only, with an out of area area code) and got a voicemail for someone with a different name then the one given in the email.

Is there anything you can do about things like this or just ignore them? I sort of want to report it just to see what happens.

I'll post the email if anyone is interested
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Got one Indian who cold called and aggressively asked for my passport or drivers license # before I even knew anything about the position. Told her to fuck off. She still had the gall to email me 10 minutes later.

In your case, I'd probably just watch out for any sort of identity theft. It's also quite possible the job was legit and they simply filled the position. Recruiters ask for all sorts of shit.
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When I was about 15 years old, I applied for a job on a reputable online jobs board. the vacancy was seeking somebody to work from home doing data entry. the organisation was supposedly German.

they put me to work straight away, and I did a bunch of data entry on a spreadsheet for them. didn't seem too suss at the time.

got paid a week or so later, but before I could spend the cash, my account got frozen by my bank. It was reported that i had stolen funds in my account. Turns out, the company had paid me with funds that they had stolen from a random someone's account. In my statement, the payment read like it was a domestic transaction from one personal account into mine.

I had to go in for a meeting with my bank and hand over evidence of my correspondence, and get it all witnessed by police etc. I was pretty young at the time. I remember being mostly pissed off that the jobs noticeboard would advertise a scam. lesson learned.
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