[Kluggy]

I had applied for one job via linked in a few years back and it was entirely a scam to do data collection. They kept asking for more and more info about me. I stopped responding when they wanted to run a credit check and asked me to email them my social security number.

[tracker1]

I kind of think that is the case with Jobot. I don't think I've ever communicated or talked to an actual person.

[yieldcrv]

This is why you put typos and obvious flaws earlier in the communication, so you only spend time dealing with less discerning people

I think scammers rely on that too much, in other faster moving areas I think looking exactly like official communication will get higher quality marks, but for recruiting typos are the way

[gruez]

1. Why would scammers care? Presumably it's a numbers game for them, and most job applicants are genuine, so why would they bother screening out people with bad grammar/spelling?

2. If you're a job applicant, wouldn't having obvious typos/grammar issues make you look less professional? Also, "bad spelling/grammar = scam" is a heuristic that people use as well, so you're effectively banking on the fact that the employer is desperate enough for a rockstar engineer that they'll interview anyone who applies.

[yieldcrv]

yeah you misread that completely, but my comment was based on understanding how scammers already operate

the scammers use mispellings in their own job postings and communications, to attract people that would ignore the mispellings, because those people would ignore many other things too