Apologies prematurely for the lengthy message, however please keep on with me, I would like some recommendation.

I utilized to a job some time again whereas in school. I’m now graduated. Yesterday, I received an e-mail from the top recruiter of the corporate saying they assume I’m an excellent match for the job, and so they’d wish to conduct an interview later within the day. I used to be very excited, and informed him I may interview each time they’re free. They stated they might do it proper the if I’m , so I stated sure. They then despatched me the contact info of the one that can be conducting the interview, and it was…over discord. However not over a name, over the textual content chat. It was a textual content chat interview. They requested me beforehand if this might be alright, and apologized for the bizarre interviewing technique. Now this was already a purple flag, however I went together with it. They didn’t ask for any hyper-revealing data, simply fundamental interview stuff, so I stored going. On the finish, they stated my solutions have been forwarded for evaluate. They stated they assume I did nicely, and so they’ll attain out quickly with outcomes.

The subsequent day, I received one other e-mail from the unique man saying I received the job, and gave me paperwork to fill out to start out the onboarding course of. The discord man reached out shortly after, and stated he’s now tasked with main me by onboarding.

That is the place the hooked up screenshots come into play. I’m the dumb wanting profile, and the opposite man is the default icon. To summarize, he was asking me to purchase a piece telephone that day to allow them to connect the time monitoring machine and ship it to me. They then stated they’d reimburse me. They requested which technique of paying would work, I stated Zelle, and so they despatched the data of the individual I ought to Zelle.

That is after I received extraordinarily suspicious. I did some analysis and apparently job recruitment scammers typically will make you ship them cash for “tools”, and promise to reimburse, however then don’t.

Am I being overly cautious right here? Please give me some recommendation, that is my first ever job I’ve been accepted for, and wish to be sure that every little thing is regular.

Some extra tidbits (will replace if questions are requested): – The one that emailed me seems to be utterly legit. I discovered him on LinkedIn and every little thing. And the e-mail is the proper job recruiting e-mail that’s on the web site. He’s the one who gave me the discord man’s data, so it’s simply unusual to me. It makes me wish to belief the discord man, however I must be positive.