I was emailed a lucrative job position through LinkedIn

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10. Hijacking this thread to warn about job offer scams

When you receive a job offer especially one that seems too good to be true it's very important you verify it's real.

Of course in this case you got lucky because the people who might be scammers used a name you didn't like so you thankfully deleted it.

Here are some tips that are not foolproof but can help identify some scams:

1. Did they try charging a fee to do the interview? This one is a common scam: they give you a very good too good to be true job offer then say it will cost for example $500 or a high fee to do the job interview then once you pay they either come up with more fees or disappear.

2. Are they using official accounts? Do you notice any misspellings? For email unless it's a very small business the email should come from the company domain name not gmail or yahoo.

3. Try directly reaching out to the company and verifying that the offer really exists. Note that you should type the email address yourself, don't hit reply. Or get the phone number of the company from the official website that you found yourself (don't click on any ads) and don't click on links provided by the person talking to you about the job offer, it must be from the actual official website.

4. Does the company really exist? Use Google or Bing maps and if available street view to check if the any addresses they used really exist.