Hey guys, I’d like your input on this.
I’ve just received this email for a collaboration proposal, which I don’t think looks sketchy at all.
For a bit more of context, I’m a CS college student about to graduate, and I decided to build a portfolio with academic projects and a small CV which I hosted in GitHub pages.
I’d normally not answer because they send me emails to my non visible email, but this one is on my public email (and wasn’t flagged as spam, could be that both are gmail?).
I googled their email and found what a think it’s their GitHub profile, name and location check out, however they don’t have any repository nor commits.
What should I do? Is this an scam?
Edit: I asked for clarification at the risk of being targeted for spam, and I received a reply within 5 minutes. It’s basically a job to do interviews and meetings. There are a few things that I didn’t find clear, like, who will I be representing during meeting/interviews among other things.
Anyways, I’ll probably decline since it’ll too much for me as a first part time job.
Thank y’all who replied
"found your profile", as in, supposedly personalized, but the email is "tracked with Mailsuite" with an opt out link, indicating mass sending. Already suspicious.
From the description I broadly had a suspicion which was confirmed by the reply. They want you to be the employee or contractor and act as the face and communicator, while in an undisclosed matter, hidden from the employer, it's not you doing the work but them. It's a scam.
It's an impersonation scam that recently became somewhat popular. I don't remember where I've seen or read about it. Either some article(s) or YouTube.