Alert: Avoid Fake Designer Job Offers and Stay SafeAlert: Avoid Fake Designer Job Offers and Stay Safe
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Sian V.
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• 5h
⚠️ SCAM ALERT: Fake job offers targeting designers on Contra
Heads up, I recently got hit with a pretty convincing scam and want to make sure other freelancers on here don't fall for it.
I received two nearly identical emails, one from alex@dscufo.xyz and the other from harper.danie95@gmail.com, both pitching a company called ECHO and a product designer role. One of them even booked a call through my Calendly to make it look more legitimate.
They sent me to dscufo.xyz/career/design to apply. After filling out the form, they asked me to run a terminal command to "proceed with onboarding." That's where it got sketchy. The command was a one-liner designed to execute blindly, used a flag that disables SSL verification, and pulled from a suspicious domain. Classic malware/crypto-miner stuff.
No legitimate company will ever ask you to run a terminal command as part of a hiring process. If you get anything from DscUFO, ECHO, or a similar setup, don't click, don't apply, don't run anything. Just report it.
Stay safe everyone 🙏
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Victor Adewole
• 2h
Thanks for the heads-up
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Nagaraj M
• 4h
Thanks for sharing!
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