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I found two cold emails in my junk mail folder that were sent the day that I uploaded my résumé to CalJobs, within an hour of posting it. Here was the message I was sent in both emails: "Hello, your application was received on the CALJOBS website and we would like to consider you for the position of a Data Entry Clerk remote position currently available at PROGRESS E-COMMERCE TRADE COMPANY . Please Reply if you are interested in joining us. Base pay pay is [way higher than normal pay rate]/hr" I was suspicious, so I did a web search and found this listing. A couple of things: 1. I had not actually completed any application processes yet with postings on that job board. 2. The pay rate they were offering was exactly the amount of my last position, which was an on-site management position. That pay rate is over double what remote data entry positions go for, on any job site. --IMPORTANT NOTE-- While my résumé listed my email address, it did not have that pay rate listed anywhere, nor should it be anywhere on my public-facing profile (my asking range is a different rate.) 3. The name of the company is in all caps, obviously copied and pasted from an automated system using a template (notice the space between the name and the period at the end of the sentence. That extra whitespace usually happens when you highlight and copy/paste from a webpage into a field.) Thankfully, I had suspicions and looked it up before I responded. But felt this needed to be reported as a "this is still happening" notice.