How to Report Phishing Scams to Google

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This week I was contacted by a Nigerian scammer who was posing as a job recruiter. The phisher went by the name “Joseph Chavez” and used a the hiringallegisgroupofcompany@gmail.com Google account with Hangouts and Gmail to attempt to scam me.

The scam worked like this. The scammer puts me through a fake job interview, then makes me an offer. They then try to get me to send money to him for supplies that I would need to perform my job.

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