GRAFTON – The Better Business Bureau (BBB) of Central New England is cautioning community members about job scams after a North Grafton biotechnology company was reportedly targeted by scammers.
According to a press release from the BBB on Monday, job seekers have been contacted by someone pretending to be a representative of DetectoGen.
The company’s mission is to develop and produce affordable and user-friendly diagnostic tests for diseases, according to its website.
According to the BBB, a woman in her mid-20s wrote to the BBB’s Scam Tracker that she had received a text from “human resources” that said they wanted her to take an assessment in order to proceed in the hiring process.
The woman reportedly said the assessment “looked legit.” She then received what appeared to be an offer letter a few days later, according to the BBB.
“This is where I got suspicious because the offer letter stated they would send me a check to buy office equipment since they cannot pay their vendor due to some reason,” the woman wrote. “Also, the job itself seemed too good to be true initially as well.”
She stopped the scam before it got too far, BBB reported.
A second woman told BBB that the fake DetectoGen reached out regarding a remote job paying $27 an hour.
“I sent them my resume and almost took the assessment until I saw that their domain was created three days ago,” she said.
DetectoGen Director Dr. Antonio Campos-Neto told the BBB that the scam…
