[clug] Is this a scam?? Does Google *really* "cold call" for jobs?

Stephen Jenkin sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au
Tue Feb 14 23:06:46 GMT 2006


Kim, Robert, Andrew,

Thanks for your replies.

- Nobody (I know) has forwaded my CV to google [but they do have a
  referral fee for staff]
- I *do* have a gmail account, never used it to send a CV
- Google seems interesting, given the right position/location I'd work
  there...

The mail address is valid and there's a person at the other end of it.
Not much else has happened.

Summary:  Offer seems valid.
	It's a very 'google' thing to do - use your own search engine to
	locate candidates...

cheers
steve

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Kim Holburn wrote:

> Do you have a gmail account?  Did you ever use it to mail your CV?? ;-)
> 
> On 2006 Feb 15, at 8:40 AM, Robert wrote:
> 
> > I can't see anyway that someone can benefit by tricking you into  
> > sending an email to a @google.com email address.
> > It shouldn't be possible for that to go to anyone except a google  
> > employee.
> >
> > So why not reply to it. If it is a scam, theres no real harm done.
> >
> > Assuming of course that your interested in working for google :-).
> >
> >
> > Stephen Jenkin wrote:
> >> Folks,
> >>
> >> I got an email purportedly from a recruiter at Google.  Is this  
> >> what they
> >> *really* do?  (Anyone know this for sure?) The headers look real.
> >>
> >> cheers
> >> steve
> >>
> >> Snippet of MSG hdr:
> >>
> >> From: Hala Fauzi <hala at google.com>
> >> Subject: Google jobs - worldwide
> >>
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------------------
> >> Steve Jenkin, Unix Sys Admin
> >> 0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915)
> >> PO Box 48, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA
> >>
> >> sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au http://www.tip.net.au/~sjenkin
> >>
> >>
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Steve Jenkin, Unix Sys Admin
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