I need you to come into work this weekend

Interesting development:

Over the holiday weekend, I saw an ad on Facebook looking for a divorce attorney with minimum starting salary at $160K
Even though I am engaged in rebuilding my own practice, I submitted my resumé to the firm as I want to keep my options open
This morning, I received a call from a woman saying she was from "X Firm"
They asked me to come in for an interview this week, which I scheduled
However, when she gave me the address, it did not match the address of the firm that placed the Facebook ad
I Google'd the address and it was a residence in Brooklyn
Upon further research, I found out that the "firm" associated with that address is a discount firm specializing in traffic tickets and the entire website was written in Russian (I had to use Google translate)

Should I even bother with this interview?
If I do go, please avenge my death by the Russian mob when it happens

Quote: aceofspades

Interesting development:

Over the holiday weekend, I saw an ad on Facebook looking for a divorce attorney with minimum starting salary at $160K
Even though I am engaged in rebuilding my own practice, I submitted my resumé to the firm as I want to keep my options open
This morning, I received a call from a woman saying she was from "X Firm"
They asked me to come in for an interview this week, which I scheduled
However, when she gave me the address, it did not match the address of the firm that placed the Facebook ad
I Google'd the address and it was a residence in Brooklyn
Upon further research, I found out that the "firm" associated with that address is a discount firm specializing in traffic tickets and the entire website was written in Russian (I had to use Google translate)

Should I even bother with this interview?
If I do go, please avenge my death by the Russian mob when it happens

Lots of Russians in Brooklyn. We had a branch there where "for English" was option 3 or 4. We had 2 Russians who did huge business. Bad business, but huge.

That the website is in Russian is not a red flag in and of itself in that Boro. That it is a residence might or might not be, Brooklyn has lots of places with storefronts below and residences above. If you time is free why not? I used to work with a guy went on all the scam job ads you saw in the paper in the 1990s ("ROCK AND ROLL ATMOSPHERE........" His logic was:

1. It gets you out of the house
2. There is a small chance it is legit
3. It lets you hone your interview skills
4. You might see a business nearby you are interested in.

Quote: AZDuffman

Lots of Russians in Brooklyn. We had a branch there where "for English" was option 3 or 4. We had 2 Russians who did huge business. Bad business, but huge.

That the website is in Russian is not a red flag in and of itself in that Boro. That it is a residence might or might not be, Brooklyn has lots of places with storefronts below and residences above. If you time is free why not? I used to work with a guy went on all the scam job ads you saw in the paper in the 1990s ("ROCK AND ROLL ATMOSPHERE........" His logic was:

1. It gets you out of the house
2. There is a small chance it is legit
3. It lets you hone your interview skills
4. You might see a business nearby you are interested in.

Wonder if the other residences count as nearby businesses

My buddy called the phone number from which I was contacted this morning:

Is it possible Teddy KGB now runs a law firm as a front?

Just received:

Quote: aceofspades

Just received:

I thought the salary was set. No benefits,
no insurance, a kid answers the phone?
It's a scam of some kind, I would avoid
it entirely. There won't be a salary, it
will be case to case and you get paid
when they get paid for whatever barely
legal work they make you do.

My response (just to see what they say):

Quote: aceofspades

My response (just to see what they say):

It won't be full time. It will be under
$100K. Zero benefits of any kind.
It will be a job one step above or
below ambulance chaser.

There is a glut of lawyers in the US.
So many that law school grads are
suing their law schools for promises
not kept. These Russkies will find a
lawyer to work for peanuts, part
time, and do whatever shady crap
they ask.

Quote: Evenbob

Quote: aceofspades

My response (just to see what they say):

It won't be full time. It will be under
$100K. Zero benefits of any kind.
It will be a job one step above or
below ambulance chaser.

There is a glut of lawyers in the US.
So many that law school grads are
suing their law schools for promises
not kept. These Russkies will find a
lawyer to work for peanuts, part
time, and do whatever shady crap
they ask.

They already responded that my salary request was beyond their budget and asked if I was "willing to negotiate"
I replied asking them the salary they wanted to pay