🧵 Global Excellent Scientists Fund 2025 in China
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:31:33 UTC No. 16473944
My father is a mechanical engineer and used to be in nuclear power research. He received the following email:
https://pastebin.com/me6jYV9R
I searched it up a little and found this random article:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cs
This supposed campaign has elements identical to the email:
>Title
2024 invitation for overseas talents to apply for the Global Excellent Scientists Fund in China.
>promises salaries ranging from $95,000 to $374,000.
>The fact it was sent by email
We live in Europe not Canada but there's too many correlations.
In any case, should we be worried about this? Is there anything fishy going on?
Is there a reason he shouldn't apply?
Have you had any experience like this?
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:48:58 UTC No. 16473976
Sounds scammy. It's like those random conference invitations I get all the time. They're pretty legit conferences in that they do actually happen but not too "reputable" I guess.
This email sounds like a middle man agent for the actual program. Anyways I prefer not to go to China for various reasons including language problem and too restrictive government.
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:27:28 UTC No. 16474012
>>16473976
It's definitely a middleman
>ABOUT US: Meet Technology (Wuhan) Co., Ltd. is a consulting company.
But it's not uncommon for different companies from various sectors outsourcing their recruitment process or just participate in third party recruitment programs.
What worries me most is that they prematurely assure us in their email that they are trustworthy and even have a system set up for untrustworthy people.
But as long as they don't ask for social security or literal credit card numbers there's nothing to be lost.