[Grosvenor]

I've gotten the north Korean wanting to use my upwork account... I'd have to create one first.

But now the Nigerian "format" scammers are into job scams. I got an email that reeked and played along a bit. I was "hired" after a curiously simple interview via signal, and had to wait for my "supervisor" to come train me.

Eventually I got the "boss" on the line to talk, he went absolutely postal when I asked if he was an African scammer. Apparently that's racist now.

[zahlman]

> I've gotten the north Korean wanting to use my upwork account... I'd have to create one first.

I've gotten that too, now that everyone ITT is talking about it. I had no idea what was going on with it at the time and ignored it. Amusing to know that there could be state actors behind it.

The version I got explicitly suggested that I create such an account for the purpose if I don't already have one (I didn't, and of course still don't).

> But now the Nigerian "format" scammers are into job scams.

Sorry, "format"?

[Grosvenor]

"format" is what Nigerian scammers call a playbook for each scam type. So a pig butchering "format", romance scam "format", inheritance scam "format", etc.

They offered to help me setup an Upwork account too. Tiresome creeps.