Is the email ​[email protected] a scam?

Question

Got an email from [email protected] . Is it scam or what?

This is the contents:

KDL which is an affiliate of a major international designer goods distributor opens a vacancy of administrative assistants/sales support. This position doesn't require office attendance and allows a candidate to work remotely from home, however providing all the necessary service to the sales department and directly to corporate clients and individuals in USA, Eastern Europe and Asia.

The offered position implicates sales support for arrangements held in Australia. The duties are the following:
- correspondence management;
- purchasing orders and expensing reports handling;
- keeping the records of all the purchases and payments made.

Salary:
- as for the part-time position you will be paid up to 580 AUD per week plus bonuses;
- full-time basis - 970 AUD per week plus bonuses.
For both part-time and full-time positions working schedule is flexible.

Requirements:
- a PC with access to the Internet;
- basic excel skills (the software must be pre-installed);
- good communication skills and positive motivation.

Any expenses related to the position are fully covered by the company. We DO NOT charge our employees.

There is a probation period, during which you will be trained and guided. All the operations are held online, however additional support can be provided to you over the phone. Probation period is paid.

If you would like to apply for the position or learn more about the job, please reply this email.

Thank you
Thielen Madaline,
KDL Team

 

at the bottom of the email, I found rather a big blank part before I could found the reply box. When I blocked the blank part, here is what I found:

 

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Answer 1

I have recieved the same email from a different email address and with different hidden text in the space at the end of the email.  When I googled it, I came to your post, so I don't know, but it seems to have all the trade marks of an identity scam.  Thanks for posting, because if you didn't I might have been fooled :)

Answer 2

I just got this one too. They even put my last name as the subject which is a little worrying. I am confident this is an attempt at identity theft, the lack of full position or company description in the email is highly suspicious in itself, but the hidden block text is a massive red flag, as it is a spammer's trick that allows them to avoid automated spam filters. I put this one firmly in the SCAM basket. Do not reply to this, just delete it.