I noticed recently that some posts, primarily under “collaboration” categories tend to promise “high rewards” and ask to contact the author, usually through some completely non-descript email or social ID.
The offering may be about some “dream come true” job that offers high salaries and work from home, or just selling your game project for “large sums” and the like.
I’m not 100% positive that these are truly as malicious as I think they might be. Nevertheless I though it warrants putting it out there for others to keep an eye on such posts because they might easily fly under the radar as they come across like the usual commercial offerings, yet provide not even a hint at who is behind this offer.
The main clue, as usual, is that it’s the user’s first post, or all of them follow a similar scheme.
This is very common. I wouldn’t be surprised if 50% of all job listings around the world are fake and are posted by data miners or employment agencies carrying out the ‘fake it till you make it’ tactic. For an agency to have any weight they need to have lots of people registered with them.
Heck, I would be surprised if Unity Tech themselves haven’t considered posting fake jobs in an attempt to encourage engagement with their engine.
Here’s one post that I can’t flag anymore because it’s been reviewed as not spam (but I’m not the only one suspecting it to be spam, you don’t hire for an MMO without even hinting at who that company is, or where it is, or what its track record is …).