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> Werner-von-Volkswagen-Strasse

Seems legit

The Volkswagens were originally humble wagonmakers but were granted a title of nobility by Ludwig II of Bavaria after they won a competition for the most beautiful swan-shaped carriage.

The fourth generation of the family later took an interest in exploring insect forms rather than waterfowl.

It's obviously right next to Klaus-von-Bayerische-Motorenwerke-Straße.

They didn't even try to seem legit, did they?

...at the intersection with Adalbert-Audi-Ring.

Could be the old scammer tactic of screening out skeptics early.

There are multiple streets named after Werner von Braun and Werner von Siemens, so why not just take another well known German brand as your fake company’s fake address?

It makes me feel like this isn't trying to fool westerners, but rather other asians/Chinese.

Bit disappointed their US headquarters weren't at General Edison Motors Plaza.

Yeah that's just bad luck - most German companies (Siemens, Bosch, Opel, Thyssen-Krupp, Daimler etc. etc.) are named after people, but they picked Volkswagen, one of the few that isn't...

The phone number "49 (400) 817-0525" is even more exciting. Germany is 49, that's correct, but Munich's area code is not 400, but 89.

Just to nitpick, we Germans love to, country prefix for Germany is +49 / 0049. They also got the postal code wrong, Germany uses 5 digits, multiple ones for each city. For some reason I didn't find the correct zip code for the Werner-von-Volkswagen-Strasse...

I don't know how many times I've been asked for a resume, and when I check?

The recruiter's business address is a fake one in some random US city. When questioned as to why, they ghost.

So apparently making up addresses very poorly, is fashionable.

Also, naming Würselen on the list of locations is really interesting. This is a basically a meaningless small town apart from hosting NVidias Headquarters in Germany.

Würselen on its own is mostly meaningless, except for the fact that it's right beside Aachen (which is a city with a rather important university) - similar to, let's say, Redmond and Seattle?

Werner-von-Siemens-Strasse does exist, though!

AI generated?

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