About (luckily lack of software testing in) Scam Job Offers

Well, promising… if only I didn't actually suck at marketing!
So, from the very beginning it was clear to me that I was dealing with a scam job offer.
As a matter of fact, one of the first things I noticed was that the sender’s email domain couldn’t be reached.

Anyway, I wanted to play a little bit with the scammer.
After making sure that, at first sight, there was nothing risky to click on, I replied to the email asking them where exactly they had reviewed my profile, to which they answered back with a very polite, but also very generic, message: in other words, they were not really answering my question.
I have to say, though, they took the time to make this look as similar as possible to a professional email message.

They even included links to a Privacy Notice page and a Your Privacy Choices page.

Interestingly enough, they didn’t add links to the social networks icons at the bottom of the message, though.

Anyway, as a software tester, to me the most interesting part of the message was the blue button.
The first thing I noticed in this case was the inconsistent naming: "Schedule A Call" option within the text, “Schedule Your Introductory Call” on the button itself.
After copying the link address associated with the blue button, I opened it in a browser and found that, surprise surprise, it didn’t work as expected: instead of leading to a page to schedule a call, it led me to a general page with several alleged job offers.

It has to be said that this scam website (https://connectscout.fordrolemeeting.com/) is somehow similar to the real one (https://www.careers.ford.com/en/home.html).
A pretty good job after all.

Now, the most interesting thing about the fake web page is that clicking on any link, tab or button prompts the user to enter their personal data, being “Continue with Facebook” the suggested option to do that.

And here is where the scam starts.

At this point, I couldn’t refrain myself from answering again their message.

The bottom line is, like most of the software development industry, the scam job offers “industry” lacks proper software testing, which might be a good news in this case.

As to the software development industry, when was the last time you saw a real software tester?

P.S. Not to mention that the use of the term delve sounds so ChatGPT-ish… 😅