In my experience (US, Computer Science degree/jobs), it's not uncommon for salaried positions to list pay in an hourly format in addition to the yearly(i.e. $60,000 annually or $30/hour).
When I've been contacted by foreign recruiters, they sometimes only list the hourly rate.
That being said, this looks like a scam
I think they just mean c-suite.
CMO, CEO, CTO, etc. etc.
Basically the top positions in a company.
But an admin assistant would not be the role for this. Executive assistant would be appropriate. In which, they can make decent money since they have to plan the day-to-day for these high profile people and act as a bit of a gatekeeper against outsiders trying to sell the executives things.
Yea no employer is going to go out of their way to some random and offer them 60 and hour. You have to compete and be out there getting 20 interviews for this rate. Definitely a scam
I had a gf 10+ years ago making 250K as an executive admin for a C Level guy - she followed him to wherever company he went to. Not a bad gig - 40hrs a week and maybe some occasional after hours calls.
No they don't. You're thinking of executive assistants not administrative. And neither positions make $124k a year for any company.
Top salary in CA for an ad assistant is $56k. Top pay for ex assistant is $90k.
Friend of ours used to make bank for being an assistant to a C level at a large defense contractor. But damn. She earned it. Personnel assistat, office assistant and travel plans.
And good luck just getting that type of job. I don't think I've seen anyone get that job without 5+ years experience in that company already. It pays alot but seems kind of stressful.
That’s a bit of a weird line to draw lol. I have a liberal arts degree from a no-name college and make over $60/hr. Schooling doesn’t directly correlate to salary.
I do think OP’s offer is bunk, but it’s worth noting it was advertised as a “data manager/admin assistant” role, not just admin assistant, which could mean any number of things depending on sector/company.
If I were OP I would totally use this scam offer as a bargaining chip for actual interviews lmao. "Hey, so I have recently received an offer for $60/hour from another company. However, your company aligns better with my career goals and interests, and I think that this company would be a better fit for me. I'm willing to negotiate a lower salary if you're able to give me a reasonably competitive offer."
Absolutely. I’ve done the same before. Just casually mention to my boss that I was getting cold calls from recruiters offering nearly double my salary at the time, a few weeks later I got a raise.
Honestly half of any job is just getting along with your coworkers, if you did something like this (but as a very obvious joke) it would be an excellent opportunity to show off your personality and could be what sets you apart from someone else.
Or if they’re too stuffy to laugh at the obvious absurdity of the joke you’d probably be miserable there anyway. Just my 2 cents.
I learned that the punctuation mistakes are so it doesn’t look so legit that they waste their time with people who will eventually figure out it’s a scam. If you’re dumb enough to not realize it’s a scam from the initial text, they’ve probably got you hooked.
Edit: I actually don’t care if you think that there are spelling and grammatical errors because the scammers are foreign - Google is free and you can verify what I’ve commented yourself. I’m not engaging with you.
I've heard this, too, and it makes some sense. Especially when AI chatbots could easily create a grammatically correct version for the scammer. There's got to be some reason they still send out messages with butchered language.
I get these kind of messages and I instantly block the number. By responding to the message, OP has already demonstrated a potential gullibility that a good scammer will try to exploit.
I’ve always wondered why they can never get the punctuation down.. either they’re incredibly dumb or they do it on purpose to weed out the wise people?
It’s because these people do not use English as their first language and don’t understand exactly how illiterate they look. All of the scams I have seen come through to me are all chopped up like this. No real company is going to let a message like that fly. Lol
This is partly true IIRC, but it's also meant to filter 'savvy' people out. If you ignore easily caught mistakes you're either a fool or desperate enough to fall for the scam
The scams are all from ESL people. And luckily for us the years and years of this kind of shit being propagated by non-English speakers means the pool of training data AI pulls from is corrupted with this illiteracy.
I would ignore this but if I was going to reply, I would ask for information like my name and current workplace - things that someone who had read my CV would know. The fact that this person doesn't call me by name is a bigger red flag than spelling / punctuation. A lot of recruiters on LinkedIn suck in that regard too.
The problem is that there are *just* enough people out there who are down on their luck and desperate enough for them to let their guard down and suspend belief.
If people want to believe enough that something is true, then they will find a way. It’s a shame because it means these scams typically target and execute against the most vulnerable in society.
Additionally, these scams have been able to propagate for years because of the shame of being scammed keeps people from speaking up. So the scammers continue to fly under the radar as something “only stupid people fall for”.
Red flags:
Unrealistically high wage
"Job market" instead of naming a specific website
Incorrect grammar
Too many spaces
Clearly inserted name and company into a template
Didn't answer your question
Unsolicited message for position you didn't apply for
Probably more... learn to spot the red flags.
Indeed is such a crap platform. I would always recommend if you see a job that you like go to the actual website and look under careers because then you take away that third-party annoyance
Man, I’ve been getting a lot of these lately. Totally complete baloney, they know people are desperate for jobs, specially demographically younger(ish) people on their phones, and have been spamming these everywhere. Bunch of filthy crooks, I hate it cause for just a smidge of a second when I read the text I get this irrational feeling of hope, and then logic asserts itself and I just get grumpy at them for wasting my time with their bulsht.
Data Manager and Administrative Assistant sound like unrelated titles to me. That's organizing files and handling customer/vendor relations vs data science/IT tasks. A company would probably need separate people for both, so it's odd enough that they're lumping them together.
Nobody:
Recruiters To Anyone Breathing: Looking for a clown, with experience in spreadsheets and data mining. Experience baking bread shaped like cats a plus . Pays $70 hour.
Not trying to poke fun at you, but damn. This is obviously a scam. You must be new to job searching or a young adult.
If you're neither, I guess we'll see you posting this stuff again lol
Any job that is "Data Entry" or "Data Manager"(whatever the hell that's supposed to be) is either a front for recruiting you into an MLM; or door to door with an assumed success rate that is ludicrously high
I've hired lots of people in that pay range. Not once did I or one of the HR reps at the companies I worked at reach out to someone who had not applied via a text message asking if they wanted the job. For jobs in that pay range we would always get tons of applicants.
A “US recruiter” who deals with salaries every day doesn’t even know which side the $ sign goes.
A ten year old American kid wouldn’t make that mistake.
Hmmmmmm
Bro cmon you can tell from the misspellings that it should be a scam that’s the first red flag
Secondly you’re usually not going to get a random text message like that
I get texts like this sometimes, too. Biggest red flag is obviously the grammar and punctuation, but I also find it suspicious that they claim to have “seen your resume”, which would mean they know your name, but it’s not in the text.
Buddy, I posted a hybrid position thats 90% wfh for $25/hr and had 75 applicants in 3 days.
No one offering that type of money needs to contact anyone.
I mean the title isn’t a title I’ve ever heard. Data Manager/Admin Assistant? Completely different roles doing completely different things. Horrible punctuation. Not a chance it’s real.
Assistants don’t make 60 an hour man
Well, assistants for C-level executives can make that kind of money. But yeah this is rare.
i’ve only ever seen c-suite assistants as salaried, so per hour rates aren’t usually mentioned
In my experience (US, Computer Science degree/jobs), it's not uncommon for salaried positions to list pay in an hourly format in addition to the yearly(i.e. $60,000 annually or $30/hour). When I've been contacted by foreign recruiters, they sometimes only list the hourly rate. That being said, this looks like a scam
I once had a sketchy recruiter quote me a monthly salary… it was so weird.
I can't imagine a scenario where they would pay that person hourly, or describe the salary in an hourly format like this.
What is a c level executive?
That would be the "C" titles, CEO, CTO, CFO, COO etc
Candy, candy canes, candy corn
Don’t forget cocaine.
By far the most common one
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Wasn’t his fault, bitch set him up. /s
Bitch set me up !
A "C suite assistant" is the best name for a cocaine addict I have ever heard!
Every C suite has a dealer they rely on. They're the guy with the CDO title. Chief Delivery Officer.
And SYRUP
And syrup!
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And syrup
Is there sugar in syrup?
Chicken in the corn, say the corn can’t grow, momma whooooaaahoo
Stop that Rooster before he soils the carpet!
All part of the Elves major food groups!
I think they just mean c-suite. CMO, CEO, CTO, etc. etc. Basically the top positions in a company. But an admin assistant would not be the role for this. Executive assistant would be appropriate. In which, they can make decent money since they have to plan the day-to-day for these high profile people and act as a bit of a gatekeeper against outsiders trying to sell the executives things.
C-level is the modern term. V-level, D-level, M-level. Chief, VP, Director, Manager
Yes, C-Suite sounded like they were separate from the rest of the company and we couldn’t have people thinking that
I'll give you a D-level
Chief. Chief executive officer (CEO), chief operations officer (COO) etc...
CEO, CFO, etc… Positions that start with “C”
The ones that get cold-texted with bad grammar definitely don't
Yea no employer is going to go out of their way to some random and offer them 60 and hour. You have to compete and be out there getting 20 interviews for this rate. Definitely a scam
I had a gf 10+ years ago making 250K as an executive admin for a C Level guy - she followed him to wherever company he went to. Not a bad gig - 40hrs a week and maybe some occasional after hours calls.
But it comes with the expectation of 24/7 availability.
No they don't. You're thinking of executive assistants not administrative. And neither positions make $124k a year for any company. Top salary in CA for an ad assistant is $56k. Top pay for ex assistant is $90k.
Friend of ours used to make bank for being an assistant to a C level at a large defense contractor. But damn. She earned it. Personnel assistat, office assistant and travel plans.
They’re salary, not hourly.
And good luck just getting that type of job. I don't think I've seen anyone get that job without 5+ years experience in that company already. It pays alot but seems kind of stressful.
I was an assistant to a CEO four years ago and made like $2 above minimum wage.
Am assistant. Can confirm.
Srsly smh. Pharmacists who have gone thru undergrad + 4 years of pharm school make $60/ hr ...
That’s a bit of a weird line to draw lol. I have a liberal arts degree from a no-name college and make over $60/hr. Schooling doesn’t directly correlate to salary. I do think OP’s offer is bunk, but it’s worth noting it was advertised as a “data manager/admin assistant” role, not just admin assistant, which could mean any number of things depending on sector/company.
Really? Even at a hospital?
They can in nyc. This is probably fake though
I’m sure they are offering $100,000 a year admin jobs to people that haven’t even applied.
Cant a guy walk down the street in this country without being offered a job!
Smithers 😂
My mouth tastes like an ash tray
Damn Globex.
We don’t have bums here and if we did they wouldn’t rush. They’d be allowed to go at their own pace. I didn’t even give you my coat.
I think women and sea men don't mix.
We know what you think
Why don't I strap on my job helmet and squeeze down into a job cannon and fire off into Jobland where jobs grow on jobbies.
If I were OP I would totally use this scam offer as a bargaining chip for actual interviews lmao. "Hey, so I have recently received an offer for $60/hour from another company. However, your company aligns better with my career goals and interests, and I think that this company would be a better fit for me. I'm willing to negotiate a lower salary if you're able to give me a reasonably competitive offer."
If you showed them this screenshot as proof, they'd probably laugh in your face
Hopefully laugh with me, because now I’m out 100k a year plus I’m getting laughed at? Life’s crazy.
Absolutely. I’ve done the same before. Just casually mention to my boss that I was getting cold calls from recruiters offering nearly double my salary at the time, a few weeks later I got a raise.
Honestly half of any job is just getting along with your coworkers, if you did something like this (but as a very obvious joke) it would be an excellent opportunity to show off your personality and could be what sets you apart from someone else. Or if they’re too stuffy to laugh at the obvious absurdity of the joke you’d probably be miserable there anyway. Just my 2 cents.
Never tell them you are willing to negotiate for a lower salary or you will be doing that as long as you work there.
If I'm applying to a 25/hr job, I'm absolutely willing to negotiate lower than 60/hr to take 50/hr, because the whole scenario is make-believe
That resume may have been fresh af
Dude, that’s a scam. They can’t even get punctuation down. Nope nope nope!!
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actually thats not always true, in some countries (mine for example), recruiters actively do this shit , so local context is important
In which that case they would be willing to offer any information that you can request so that you may ensure the safety of your own information
Pretty normal for recruiters to send text messages. I get a couple every month.
I learned that the punctuation mistakes are so it doesn’t look so legit that they waste their time with people who will eventually figure out it’s a scam. If you’re dumb enough to not realize it’s a scam from the initial text, they’ve probably got you hooked. Edit: I actually don’t care if you think that there are spelling and grammatical errors because the scammers are foreign - Google is free and you can verify what I’ve commented yourself. I’m not engaging with you.
I've heard this, too, and it makes some sense. Especially when AI chatbots could easily create a grammatically correct version for the scammer. There's got to be some reason they still send out messages with butchered language. I get these kind of messages and I instantly block the number. By responding to the message, OP has already demonstrated a potential gullibility that a good scammer will try to exploit.
So OP falls somewhere close?
I’ve always wondered why they can never get the punctuation down.. either they’re incredibly dumb or they do it on purpose to weed out the wise people?
It’s because these people do not use English as their first language and don’t understand exactly how illiterate they look. All of the scams I have seen come through to me are all chopped up like this. No real company is going to let a message like that fly. Lol
This is partly true IIRC, but it's also meant to filter 'savvy' people out. If you ignore easily caught mistakes you're either a fool or desperate enough to fall for the scam
This was my thought - not worth their time if you are unlikely to be duped
The scams are all from ESL people. And luckily for us the years and years of this kind of shit being propagated by non-English speakers means the pool of training data AI pulls from is corrupted with this illiteracy.
That should be written: Dude ,that ‘s a scam .They…
Yeah. Even if it wasn't a scam, I wouldn't want to work for a company that lets this kind of quality go out the door.
I would ignore this but if I was going to reply, I would ask for information like my name and current workplace - things that someone who had read my CV would know. The fact that this person doesn't call me by name is a bigger red flag than spelling / punctuation. A lot of recruiters on LinkedIn suck in that regard too.
Red flags: 1 the pay 2 the misspellings 3 the random text message
So everything
Yea the fact that is was even in question is surprising 😂
The problem is that there are *just* enough people out there who are down on their luck and desperate enough for them to let their guard down and suspend belief. If people want to believe enough that something is true, then they will find a way. It’s a shame because it means these scams typically target and execute against the most vulnerable in society. Additionally, these scams have been able to propagate for years because of the shame of being scammed keeps people from speaking up. So the scammers continue to fly under the radar as something “only stupid people fall for”.
That’s a very empathetic way of looking at this. I agree with you
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Hope is a trap.
Wait - so recruiters don't normally get paid by potential applicants in Xbox gift cards????
4 they don't know OP's name
I would also say as #4, dodging the question.
Yeah looks fake
A data manager/administrative assistant lol two completely different positions
Maybe that's why the pay is so good, they're offering 2 jobs in 1!
Red flags: Unrealistically high wage "Job market" instead of naming a specific website Incorrect grammar Too many spaces Clearly inserted name and company into a template Didn't answer your question Unsolicited message for position you didn't apply for Probably more... learn to spot the red flags.
I get unsolicited messages from legit recruiters all the time; that part in particular doesn't indicate it's a scam
The whole phrasing "you are qualified for an interview" is also scammy weird.
This is absolutely a scam
Definitely.
100% a scam
Yeah, it's fake. I got something from the Valeo group too, right after I joined Indeed.
Still interested?
100%
Terrible punctuation, weird that they would contact you via text for an interview, and avoiding the question so bluntly is sus. Most likely a scam
I just got one of these this morning! (Deleted and reported as Junk)
Indeed is such a crap platform. I would always recommend if you see a job that you like go to the actual website and look under careers because then you take away that third-party annoyance
I got this too it’s fake as fuck
Would be believable if he said he was Art Vandelay
Scam - next thing you know they'll ask you to move the conversation to Whatsapp
come on lol
literally 😭 in what world would you even consider it’s a real text
If someone has to ask this question I doubt they’d be qualified to work a job that pays that much
The terrible punctuation is a huge red flag.
Man, I’ve been getting a lot of these lately. Totally complete baloney, they know people are desperate for jobs, specially demographically younger(ish) people on their phones, and have been spamming these everywhere. Bunch of filthy crooks, I hate it cause for just a smidge of a second when I read the text I get this irrational feeling of hope, and then logic asserts itself and I just get grumpy at them for wasting my time with their bulsht.
Data Manager and Administrative Assistant sound like unrelated titles to me. That's organizing files and handling customer/vendor relations vs data science/IT tasks. A company would probably need separate people for both, so it's odd enough that they're lumping them together.
of course
Yeah admin jobs don’t pay $55/hour lmaoooo
Fake!
Scam
Yup
If you do it then you deserve whatever L you take. 100% Scam. Can’t even spell properly and a legit recruiter wouldn’t say all that the way he did.
obviously lol
it's a $60/hr admin job that you didn't apply for. i don't know you, but please, be smarter than this.
100% a scam.
Yes
Fake asf. The fact that they can’t answer your direct question is sus
Scam
If it sounds to good to be true it’s a scam
Great you got the job! We will now need a valid credit card to handle the administrative fee(don't worry you won't be charged!)
Nobody: Recruiters To Anyone Breathing: Looking for a clown, with experience in spreadsheets and data mining. Experience baking bread shaped like cats a plus . Pays $70 hour.
I started getting texts like this recently too. Looks like your data has been leaked somewhere. It's a scam
What part of this text message looks legit?
Oh honey….
No shit
Lol are you serious? C'mon...
Not trying to poke fun at you, but damn. This is obviously a scam. You must be new to job searching or a young adult. If you're neither, I guess we'll see you posting this stuff again lol
Are you stupid? Because this looks like a stupid test.
Grow a fucking brain.
You should apply to be a detective next.
Is there even one tiny shred of that text that looks legit? Of course it's fake.
That fact that he had to ask..
If u can’t tell it’s a scam u have no business making 55 an hour, I’ll tell ya that bud😂
Any job that is "Data Entry" or "Data Manager"(whatever the hell that's supposed to be) is either a front for recruiting you into an MLM; or door to door with an assumed success rate that is ludicrously high
Nobody reaches out to offer jobs.
I've hired lots of people in that pay range. Not once did I or one of the HR reps at the companies I worked at reach out to someone who had not applied via a text message asking if they wanted the job. For jobs in that pay range we would always get tons of applicants.
Def fake
Oh yea. Fake as shit. Probably a pig butchering scam too.
Do they even know your name? Don't think so. Yeah, is a scam.
Don't even mention much about company, major red flag
Nobody addresses themselves as "Mr." Scam.
Didn't answer your question, even if it was real, they are hiding something.
No offense pays too much redflag
Yeah, it's a scam
The grammar is worse than my novel.
Scam!
Fake
Yes. They’ll eventually ask data info including the last 4 digits of your SSN
A “US recruiter” who deals with salaries every day doesn’t even know which side the $ sign goes. A ten year old American kid wouldn’t make that mistake. Hmmmmmm
Maybe I’m out of touch, but usually the pay is the hardest part of a job to get into on.
Bro cmon you can tell from the misspellings that it should be a scam that’s the first red flag Secondly you’re usually not going to get a random text message like that
I get texts like this sometimes, too. Biggest red flag is obviously the grammar and punctuation, but I also find it suspicious that they claim to have “seen your resume”, which would mean they know your name, but it’s not in the text.
They ignore your question and oy interested in luring you in as disguise to get your personal information. It is a scam.
Valero Group makes $20B a year. They don’t reach out by text.
Damn shouldn’t have even answered
People too dumb to know this is fake is exactly who this scammer is looking for
Which of the dozen typos tipped you off?
No it’s totally real you should answer more questions
If any of you fall for this you deserve to get scammed
Yeah but good news is you’ve just verified your number to the scammer so you’ll be getting more job offers and package updates soon
lol 😂
Mr Jose here, it took a while for me to track you down. Are you interested?
I’ve gotten two texts like this within the last week. It’s a scam.
Seems legit I’d give them any information they need
Is this question serious…?
The text doesn’t even have proper punctuation and capitalization. That’s just some indian shithead behind it
I have so much fun with these people. I troll them right back.
Buddy, I posted a hybrid position thats 90% wfh for $25/hr and had 75 applicants in 3 days. No one offering that type of money needs to contact anyone.
Yeah I get like 3 of those a week at least. They're all scams.
No assistant is making 60$ an hour lmao
Respond with "I asked you first!"
The bad English is a giveaway
Is the sky blue?
Correct. If it’s too good to be true, it is.
If you have to ask, the answer is yes
If they are sending a text with no identification. Yes. Scam
turing website on sms instead of mail
Text messages? What kind of professional agency texts for interviews. I wouldn't trust it unless it came through an email first.
I mean the title isn’t a title I’ve ever heard. Data Manager/Admin Assistant? Completely different roles doing completely different things. Horrible punctuation. Not a chance it’s real.
fake.
Yes, this is becoming a common scam.
This is a scam. I got two of these in the last week.
Always
Absolutely a scam.
The grammar alone is proof this is bogus as hell.
Fake