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Lighthouse
Vol. I · No. 142 · Monday



Eleven independent red flags. Do not apply.


The Posting

Marketing Coordinator (Remote)

at GlobalReach Solutions·Anywhere · Flexible hours

✓ Remote Confirmed · Verified telecommute structure

Earn $7,800 – $9,500/month working from home! No experience required. Flexible schedule. Immediate start. Help us expand into your region.

$7,800–$9,500/mo
today
The Verdict
18/100

Editorial summary

This is almost certainly fraudulent. The domain was registered fourteen days ago, the company name appears nowhere outside this single posting and a clone of it, the recruiter’s contact is a Gmail address, and the compensation is decoupled from any plausible scope of work. We have logged it for the FTC consumer‑complaint database. If you have already corresponded, do not send identification, banking details, or pay for any “equipment” or “training.”


The four pillars

§1 · Pillar

Real

14/100
Fail

Almost every identity signal fails. Likely impersonation or shell entity.

●●●Domain registered 2026‑05‑07 — 14 days ago. Privacy‑masked registrant.whois.iana.org
●●●No corporate registration found in DE, CA, DE, NY, UK, or IE registries.sec.gov/edgar
●●●Recruiter contact: hr.globalreach@gmail.com — not on company domain.posting
●●●Company name returns 0 hits on Google with quotes plus location. Listing is the only source.google.com
§2 · Pillar

Active

22/100
Fail

Posted today, but identical copy already lives at three sibling domains.

●●●Identical body text found at globalreach‑careers.net and gr‑remote.work.lighthouse/diff
●●●4 BBB scam reports filed against the phrase “GlobalReach Solutions” this quarter.bbb.org
●●○r/Scams thread from 4 days ago reports the same posting and contact email.reddit.com
●○○No careers infrastructure — page is a single static HTML file, no ATS.lighthouse/crawl
§3 · Pillar

Fair

9/100
Fail

Pay‑to‑scope ratio is implausible. Hits 7 of 9 textbook scam markers.

●●●$94k–$114k for entry‑level marketing with no qualifications: p99.4 outlier.levels.fyi
●●●"Flexible hours, immediate start, no experience" — three of the FTC’s named scam patterns.ftc.gov
●●●Posting requests a copy of government ID before interview.posting
●●●Process mentions a $189 “training materials” purchase, reimbursed after 30 days.posting
§4 · Pillar

Credible

26/100
Fail

No verifiable product, team, history, or funding. Nothing checks out.

●●●Site has no product, no blog, no team page. Just the one job posting.lighthouse/crawl
●●●0 LinkedIn employees. 0 GitHub presence. 0 press mentions.linkedin.com
●●●Stock photo on “About” page reverse‑searches to a 2014 Shutterstock asset.tineye.com
●●○Domain is the 47th .work TLD registration by this anonymized owner in 2026.whois.iana.org

§5 · Recruiter activity

Posting timeline, last 12 weeks

n/a
94%
§6 · Compensation

Offer band vs. market

The offer band is implausibly high for the scope described. Posting matches multiple FTC-documented scam patterns including upfront fees and pre-interview ID requests. Do not engage.


§7 · Comparables

Similar verified roles

Marketing Coordinator
$72k–$88k
Marketing Associate
$78k–$95k
Marketing Coordinator
$65k–$82k

§8 · Sources & references

Every link cited in this dossier


Generated by Lighthouse v.2026.05 · 17 sub-checks · 14 external sources · 2.9s wall time. Every claim above links to its source. Re-run an inspection any time — signals decay. Signed by the editorial AI; verified deterministically against the cached evidence pack.