We just received an email from someone enquiring about this. In case this needs to be clarified, it's spam, not sent by Y Combinator. There's only one Lauren at YC, not in recruiting or marketing, and nobody has the title “Recruitment Marketing Manager”.

My impression is that in the last month there's been a Cambrian Explosion in scam text of all sorts, also I see a lot of what I think are affiliation scams on Bluesky and Mastodon targeting, not least, open source developers, chronically ill people, transgender people, and anime fans. I just got a scam text last night that said I owed NY State a lot in freeway tolls.

I wouldn't be surprised if Scam, Inc [1] was branching out.

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/scam-inc-from-the-econ...

I got a text offering me a remote job with this company.

aquanettebeacham10... › iMessage Today 10:17 AM Hello! My name is Lauren from Y Combinator. We were really impressed with your profile and would like to provide you the chance to take on a flexible remote role. In this position, you would assist merchants by updating their data, improving their visibility, and managing bookings effectivelv. + iMessage

Thanks for the heads up. I too received a text from Lauren at Y Combinator. Your warnings are enough to get me to pause. ~Stephen

I also received a text from Lauren at Y Combinator. Thank you for the heads up.