I assume someone is attempting to fleece me?

[Shuvi McTupya]

I am currently job hunting and just got an email from someone I never heard of. Email follows:


" I just sent you a contract document through dropbox.

_Click here_ to check the contact download I sent to you.

Through Dropbox Application

Have A great day

Kind regard,
James T Ringrose"

The email address is loosely connected to the jobs i am looking for, but is a yahoo address...Oh, and i didn't have a drop box account until i just set one up out of curiosity but i guess he wouldn't have been able to send me anything to an account that didn't exist...

[nyt]

I've read of people using dropbox and google accounts to add legitimacy to virus ridden junk.
Be careful.

[Shuvi McTupya]

Thanks for the heads up !

[Du1point8]

unless I know the person or Im in contact with the company then I would never click or open anything emailed to me.

[PaulG40]

^This!

I keep getting job offers/notifications from linked in from a 'Michael Mattocks', who speaks bad English and the emails are always very vague and usually require some sort of monitary exchange for courses etc. No one can work out if he's genuine or not so alot of us generally ignore him.

[Jimmy No Hands]

While you're going through the job hunt process it's not uncommon for your details to be passed onto such .. malicious parties. Every time I start applications through various third party job sites I get random phone calls and spam emails galore for a while, then it dies off.