@jik If I were to take a stab - looks like another take on advance fee fraud. Folks used to send out low effort "high paying low effort" fake job offers. Of course - once the dialogue is opened, and sometimes realistic looking job offers are presented, there's a small matter of a [visa|application|processing] fee that needs to be paid to a third party to proceed.

Many large companies have been spoofed enough times (sometimes rather convincingly) that they put up a FAQ on their recruitment pages

• https://www.shell.com/fraud-and-scam-alert.html
• https://www.chevron.com/who-we-are/contact
• https://careers.slb.com/fraud
• https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/careers/recruitment-scams/

I guess its only natural that this ecosystem starts to lean on chatbots and LLMS - they've been working on their craft for some time, and use any available tools to make their pitch seem more legitimate.

I think that the 419 eaters FAQ probably covers the bases with regards to what folks should do when encountering scams such as this

https://www.419eater.com/html/419faq.php