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Is this Meta recruiter offering me a remote role legit?

Worth a check. The look-alike domain is a reason to verify, but a domain difference alone is not proof. Open Meta's official careers site yourself and verify the role and recruiter there. Look at what it's asking, a profile match you never sought, a request to verify your identity, a 24-hour onboarding deadline, and you've got the fake-recruiter template. Real hiring usually moves through a company's own careers portal and an actual interview, so a reply-to-continue link is worth questioning. For a real Meta role you can usually find the opening on the official careers site under meta.com, rather than on a look-alike registered weeks ago.

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Open-to-work candidates are the target because a note from Meta feels like validation of their profile and their skills. By pairing a famous brand with an onboarding deadline, the scam turns flattery into urgency, so the target verifies and onboards before questioning why meta.com never appears.

The exhibit
EXHIBIT · RECRUITER: WORTH A CHECK
Received via: LinkedIn EN
Dear [name] , We hope this email finds you well! We are reaching out to you as we are currently seeking a Digital Media Specialist with a focus on Paid Social to join our team at Meta. This role will be integral to our efforts in media planning and execution across the entire Meta ecosystem, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Meta Reality Labs, and Meta Corporate Marketing. Our Media Planning Team leads the way in media

Based on a real reported message; personal details and domains masked.

How to verify it yourself

  • Inspect the domain, Meta uses meta.com, not meta-careers.example or any host with extra words tacked on.
  • Find the role on Meta's official careers site; a genuine opening is posted there, not sent by DM.
  • A legitimate recruiter never asks you to verify your identity or onboard before an interview.
  • Refuse to move the conversation to WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app to keep it moving.

Common questions

is the Meta recruiter message real

Only if it comes from a meta.com address and links to meta.com. A message steering you to meta-careers.example is an impersonator, not Meta.

is meta-careers.example an official Meta domain

No. Meta's domain is meta.com. The careers add-on and .top ending are exactly what look-alike domains use to pass at a glance.

does Meta onboard people before interviewing them

Never. Onboarding follows a signed offer inside Meta's own systems. An onboard-in-24-hours ask before any interview is the scam's main move.

does Meta recruit through LinkedIn DMs

A recruiter may reach out first, but real hiring then moves to meta.com and a formal process, not a verify-and-continue link on a registered look-alike.

If you already responded

  1. Stop replying and share no ID, bank details, or payment, regardless of how far the onboarding went.
  2. If you entered a reused password, change it immediately and turn on two-factor authentication.
  3. Report it at reportfraud.ftc.gov to put the look-alike domain on record.

More scams like this

Source: FTC, Job Scams

Hunch is not affiliated with Meta. Meta is named only to describe a scam that impersonates it; the real Meta does not send these messages.