Yeah, it's well-known that people will fill out anything if they're desperate and an "authority figure" (like a potential employer) asks for it. Nobody expects

Yeah, it's well-known that people will fill out anything if they're desperate and an "authority figure" (like a potential employer) asks for it. Nobody expects to get a reply from an online job advertisement, so silently collecting information this way works, but the same format is also used for recruiting (both knowing and unknowing) middlemen for money laundering and various fraud schemes.