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I got this email from a (supposed) director of HR for a company. It seemed legit and I wanted to believe it's real because the company exists and the email came from a .org domain name (not jblow2525@gmail.com). I was going to schedule a meeting, but then I did some digging and found some red flags:

• I tried to find the person listed in the email. The closest I could find is the Chief HR Officer for the company that has the same first name but different last name (maybe he changed it?). There's nobody at the company with the same first and last name.
• The TLD in the email is .org, while the actual company TLD is .com. Going to the .org redirects to the .com website. But after doing a WHOIS of the domain (who/where/when it was registered), I found the .org was registered with NameCheap just last year and the .com was registered with Amazon (or somewhere else) back in 2007. This makes me think they (the scammers) just registered the domain name, set it to redirect to the actual company website, and use it for sending emails (not hard to do).
• The name in the Calendly link has someone else's name and for being the head Director of HR, his calendar is pretty empty.
• There's no job postings on their website matching the one's in the email.
• The email it was sent to is my other email that I'm pretty sure is on some B2B email list cause I get all these random emails about wanting to collaborate or use their product.

The biggest red flag is the fact that someone is reaching out to me with a job in today's job market. There's so many people looking for work (especially in tech) right now that there's no reason to have to reach out to people. What I'm wondering is what type of scam is this and how does it work? Why would they go to this extent to imitate a company? Also, I reported the email to NameCheap but couldn't report it to the actual company without giving them my personal information.

>Hi [redacted],

>I'm [redacted], Director of HR at ECI Software Solutions. We're opening three fully remote engineering positions and wanted to see if any of these lines up with what you're doing.

>Three roles — pick whichever fits you best:

>  1. DevOps Engineer   — Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, ArgoCD, Kafka
  2. AI Engineer       — LLMs, MLOps (MLflow, Airflow), SageMaker / Vertex AI
  3. Full Stack        — React + Node / Python / Ruby / Java, GoLang, cloud + microservices

>Short version:
  - Fully remote (Canada, USA, South America, and anywhere else you can work from)
  - Competitive compensation with room to grow for strong performers — details in the PDF
  - Structured onboarding, then full employment

>A few things to be upfront about before you take a closer look:
  - English at B2+ (upper-intermediate) is mandatory — the role involves live interviews and streamed work sessions, so comfortable spoken English is non-negotiable.
  - This isn't the right role for engineers with fewer than 3 years of professional experience. No judgment if that's where you're at — we just want to be respectful of your time.
  - Individual engineer must to be comfortable working as other guy's profile. (Impersonating Yes)

>Full job description (PDF): [redacted]

>If this sounds interesting, grab any 20 minutes that work for you:
[redacted]

>If the timing's off or it's not a fit, just reply "no thanks" and I won't follow up.

>Best,
[redacted]
Director of HR, ECI Software Solutions
redacted@ecisolutions.org

>P.S. Not the right fit, but know someone who is? Referrals are very welcome — just forward this along or reply with their contact, and I'll take it from there.

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