Knorex Pte. Ltd. Reports & Reviews (2)
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Scammer's website www.knorex.com
Country United States
Victim Location WA 98102, USA
Type of a scam Employment
1) Each texter sought to conduct interviews via a secure messaging app (WhatsApp or Telegram), with no voice or face-to-face contact to help contextualize their words. Today's example requested that we use Telegram. As I have since learned, Flexjobs, Ziprecruiter, and Upwork all stress that genuine recruiters do not interview job-seekers by text.
2) The texters--apparently at two different, real companies--follow nearly identical interview scripts;
3) The interviews involved little vetting: I was asked if I had a criminal background. But the interviewers didn't go over my resume or inquire about my past experience. They didn't pose situational workplace questions (for example: how you'd resolve conflicting priorities, deal with tight deadlines, or when to escalate a problem to a supervisor, etc.). They made no request for writing samples and didn't ask me to complete any skills tests. 4) The interviewers were unable to answer my questions about company culture, team size, typical day, etc.--could only provide obviously cut-and-pasted text from the company home page.
5) The texters' eagerness to hire and the promised pay and benefits sounded "too good to be true," given how lightly they were vetting me. Flexjobs, Ziprecruiter, and Upwork also all advise job seekers to beware of offers that seem "too good to be true"--offering a great job with little or no vetting.
6) The second texter included personal questions not normally posed until after a job offer has been accepted, like "What is your birth date?" (I provided the first four digits only, not the year). Indeed, many job sites warn against offering personal information prior to an offer letter.
7) Even stranger, today's texter asked intrusive questions I've never heard from any employer: "What is your telephone carrier?" ( I asked "Why?"), followed yet more bizarrely a few minutes later by "Please specify your Sprint [that's not my carrier] username and password" (I asked "Why?" and the interviewer asked me to "Please disregard the previous questions.") This immediately suggested phishing. I know of no reason why an employer should know my phone carrier.
7) Both texters listed a raft of materials (software and/or hardware) I would need to do the job, raising questions for me of how these would be provided.
8) Both texters pushed their interviews on much longer than initially advised: 40 minutes became 2 hours. In each case, I had to terminate contact with the texter.
9) Searching online for "employment scam instant message," I found numerous examples of employment scams conducted via messaging app. In these situations, job seekers had personally identifying information compromised, were tricked into buying unnecessary materials, were sent bad checks in compensation for such materials, etc. Alarmingly, scammers used the same tactics and language described above to obtain job-seekers' personal information or induce them to buy useless office software/hardware.
I have discontinued contact with both of these "recruiters."