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
It feels a little sketchy to me.
The big question I’d want to know is if this is something where they use your face/communication to hide outsourcing work without the consent or knowledge of a company.
If that’s the case you could be on the hook for legal issues, but I think you’d be able to figure it out.
It’s also a tracked email from some service, so just beware that it’s probably not an individual sending these (how often do you use a third party email pixel when you email someone? This implies a pipeline of many people you want to iterate on).
And then while it’s fakeable using LLMs, they haven’t mentioned why YOUR profile is appealing, so it just seems mass spam to me.