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by minraws 1326 days ago
generally most people check company then do,

- firstname@company.email

- firstnamelastname@company.email

- firstname-lastname@company.email

- firstname.lastname@company.email

from the recruitment side, cause I have asked this question to my company's HR... :P

hackers do it as well hence why I am always stressed about phishing, though recruitment mail on professional ids is still rather rare, recruiters also prefer to use personal email if available or so I have heard from a subset of them.

Try checking if it maybe some kind of phishing scam, I have seen those a lot, recruitment phishing is like the most common case of successful phishing.
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gamegoblin 1326 days ago
It was definitely not phishing -- I had a friend of mine who works for Meta reach out to the specific recruiter internally and ask them to not do that. They apologized, but a few months later a different recruiter reached out to the same work email.

They have my personal email, because they send recruitment spam to that one too.

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bryan_w 1326 days ago
Are you sure it's not in LinkedIn system? That's where a lot of recruiters buy data from.
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gamegoblin 1326 days ago
Just verified it's not in any of my LinkedIn settings, also no other company has ever reached out via that employer email, only Meta, so it seems like Meta is the only one who knows about it (or is the only one who uses it, which seems unlikely).
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