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Do you think this email is fake?

Asked by Axemusica (9500points) April 23rd, 2010

I recently moved back up to Alaska in Feb. I’ve been trying to find work, but efforts have been fruitless. I am constantly on craigslist everyday looking for something that I could apply for in general. I saw an ad that said, Warehouse General Labor and replied with my resume attached, as I always do.

Today I received an email with the RE:ply of the same subject line I sent to that ad. At the top of the email it had something like this:
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…and something similar at the bottom of the email. The email can be read here.

Notice how it says nothing about a “Warehouse Position” and is “Property Management” company who is also a ”Rental” company. Also, the link provided in the email, assuming you looked at it didn’t work. It said http://ojhmanagement.com/application/ in blue, insinuating it was a link, but down in the corner that tells you what the link is and when it was clicked takes you to http://tinyurl.com/zasrn9, which is a dead tinyurl. This was quite strange I thought.

So I manually put in the link that was read from the email, since it wasn’t click-able and entered my name, email and the little keyword thingy they gave in the email. This lead me to not an application, like the email said to fill out, but a questionnaire. You know, like the kind if you were filling out an application. I thought, ‘ok, well nothing really harmful yet.’ Half way through the questionnaire was something about getting a credit report. When pressed to you to creditreport.com and also saying that I would need to print it out and bring it in with the interview.

I clicked the boxes saying I completed the report and would bring it in (which I didn’t do) and finished the questionnaire. At the end it asked to upload my resume. I thought, hmmm that’s funny since I sent it with the first initial email to the ad. That’s where I stopped and made this question.

Am I just being over suspicious or paranoid? Or is there really something fishy going on here? OJH Property Management can’t be found when googled and I’d like to get some jelly help.

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