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Do you trust any work related email sent to you using a gmail account? Cause I absolutely don't. I work in a very very tiny startup and even this guy sent me th

by shmde 4y ago

Do you trust any work related email sent to you using a gmail account? Cause I absolutely don't. I work in a very very tiny startup and even this guy sent me the acceptance mail through his company site.

itgoon 4y ago
That was the biggest flag to me. Nobody in any kind of business uses @gmail.com. Maybe some Etsy person selling out of their extra bedroom, but that's it. Domain names and email hosting is too cheap to use gmail for business. Even if it was a legit business, I'd stay away if they couldn't be bothered to do that minimum.
- pbhjpbhj 4y ago
  Not true in UK, small businesses that are not working in tech will use free email with the suppliers domain.
  - ghaff 4y ago
    That's true in the US as well. Lots of small businesses just use gmail.
- minimaul 4y ago
  It's not just the use of @gmail.com, it's the fact that it's clearly an autogenerated address with random chars that tripped me. If it was claiming to be a small business from companyname@gmail.com, I'd be less suspicious - but a large corporate not using their own domain for mail, the email address itself, and the then switching to a second email address are all giant red flags for me.
  - bitcharmer 4y ago
    Exactly this. How these email addresses didn't raise any red flags is beyond me. Looks like many people are much more gullible than I ever imagined.
- kube-system 4y ago
  It is quite common among US businesses that are not large enough to afford a dedicated IT department and do not want to spend too much on a MSP. Not the kind of company that would be offering this kind of job, for sure.
nicolas_t 4y ago
In my life as a contractor, I've only seen one company exec use an icloud.com email account for work related communication. So, it's very unusual but at least I've seen one legit use case.

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Do you trust any work related email sent to you using a gmail account? Cause I absolutely don't. I work in a very very tiny startup and even this guy sent me th

by shmde 4y ago

itgoon 4y ago
That was the biggest flag to me. Nobody in any kind of business uses @gmail.com. Maybe some Etsy person selling out of their extra bedroom, but that's it. Domain names and email hosting is too cheap to use gmail for business. Even if it was a legit business, I'd stay away if they couldn't be bothered to do that minimum.
- pbhjpbhj 4y ago
  Not true in UK, small businesses that are not working in tech will use free email with the suppliers domain.
  - ghaff 4y ago
    That's true in the US as well. Lots of small businesses just use gmail.
- minimaul 4y ago
  It's not just the use of @gmail.com, it's the fact that it's clearly an autogenerated address with random chars that tripped me. If it was claiming to be a small business from companyname@gmail.com, I'd be less suspicious - but a large corporate not using their own domain for mail, the email address itself, and the then switching to a second email address are all giant red flags for me.
  - bitcharmer 4y ago
    Exactly this. How these email addresses didn't raise any red flags is beyond me. Looks like many people are much more gullible than I ever imagined.
- kube-system 4y ago
  It is quite common among US businesses that are not large enough to afford a dedicated IT department and do not want to spend too much on a MSP. Not the kind of company that would be offering this kind of job, for sure.
nicolas_t 4y ago
In my life as a contractor, I've only seen one company exec use an icloud.com email account for work related communication. So, it's very unusual but at least I've seen one legit use case.