The HR contact's email address is "[email protected]".

@RobertF: Scam. The domain got registered just a week ago: who.is/whois/careeralimentiv.com

@Hilmar Thanks for checking! Now the question is whether the HR person who contacted me used the same name as an existing employee at the company, or did they make a fictional LinkedIn profile? linkedin.com/in/billie-patterson-438632133

Anyone can make an email seem like it’s from someone else, that field is literally text, but the header information doesn’t lie about the email servers it passed through. Impossible to determine the legitimacy of the profile, but the entire process, was a scam so is it really that important? The actual company didn’t actually reach out to you.

@Donald Super easy. I once received an email purported from [email protected], telling me to stop what I was doing. Having read how easy it was, I taught myself about spoofing. I was the one who sent that email message to myself. The raw header showed that the email did not come from heaven.org.

@RobertF It is much more likely that the person behind the phishing attack looked for a recruiter at Alimentiv and used part of that name in the attack, as opposed to creating a fake LinkedIn profile.

@Donald That type of spoofing has become a lot harder in the last 20 years or so due to protection measures like DKIM, SPF and DMARC (though it does require that the "real" domain has set up suitable configuration). Recipient and/or intermediate mail servers will reject emails if they don't originate from the right hosts, or are missing certain (cryptographically signed) header values.

@MarkRotteveel - I received three emails today that did just that, it was properly identified as spam, but that’s besides the point since it also just happened to the author.

FWIW, the official website also stated the same notice.

You can submit an abuse report to the careeralimentiv.com domain's registrar at namesilo.com/report_abuse.php

@DavidHammen I get spam emails from myself all the time. I really need to find out what I'm doing when I'm asleep!

This begs the question, what happens next to get OP to pay money? I've never paid a potential/future employer so even if somebody tricks me into thinking I have a new high paid job, I'm not sending them money for any reason.

@DeanMacGregor first thing you do when you get a new job is send them a bunch of very important documents. Scammers would love a copy of your passport

@DeanMacGregor My friend got one where they want you to buy a bunch of equipment up-front that they'll pay you back for. I did a google search and came up with this list of 17 different job scams.

@RichardTingle ahh yes, that makes sense. I didn't even think about that part. Now I'm imagining that I've quit my job, found out I don't have a new job, oh and by the way they've found a way to drain my bank accounts with the personal info I gave them. I don't want to overstate things but the more I hear about people that would do that, the more I think they're real jerks.