Bottom feeders. Scum. The lowest of the low, picking on those without the resources to do anything about it. The 21st century vultures of our economy, preying on the hopes of people trying to find a decent job in a world where its often damn hard to find one. Call it R.O. if you want, but its not like its on the front page of any paper in this country. I guess its just not news when you offer people who need a job hope in the form of a phony job offer and then take their time, money, and identity through a Phishing scam.
If you have a job & are reading this, you’d probably have never known about it. Maybe you wouldn’t even care. You’ve got a job and you always will, right? Because Og knows, it’ll never be you looking for work.
Here are a few of the wriggley bugs that I’ll bring to light from under their rocks:
**Administrative Solutions Human Resources
Promo Group
eBandSearch**
Always nice to Phish and Scam the people who can afford it least, eh Scumbags???
Fuck You, up and down, sideways, and through organs never intended for that purpose! If there really is ever a reason to flay the skin off a living human being, roll them in salt until they die screaming and then drop the bloody carcass in a waste processing plant for reclamation (and possibly shoot all the mourners who dare to grieve for them), then I say these bastards qualify. You want to remember these scum? Wipe your ass & flush. Don’t forget to print the Mass Card on the Charmin first.
I can’t cite emails I’ve received; here’s the best links I can find for the curious…
Every time I re-activate my resume on Monster, et al, I get contacted by them saying they saw my resume and think I’m a good fit for their company…except that my resume and skill set contain not one iota of “selling crap financial services”.
Urgh, Primerica. I was contacted by them after I graduated college. I went in for the interview, not knowing who they were. I had to shower after I got home.
I was on monster.com for awhile and used to get “job offers” via email all of the time. It was very apparent from the email what kind of work it was. Are these different sorts of ads/offers? Sorry, I couldn’t really tell from your link what exactly the consumer was receiving that misled them into being scammed.
Imagine that you’ve been out of work, and got what sounds like an enthusiastic lead on a job interview. You walk into a room where there are about a dozen other job seekers and a few people from the company in question. No interviews will happen. Instead, you get a PowerPoint presentation on how you can join them and get into a MLM business to sell financial services, but first you need to take their courses and spend money to get some kind of license. Hard sell all the way.
I walked out, despondent that this was (from my POV at the time) the only company that wanted to hire me - someone they could put in their downline and take a cut of commissions from.
I ended up with a job offer and then two more interview requests the same day a couple weeks later, but of course at the time I had no idea that would happen.
Well, no job interview, even the most fantastic is a “good one” or a guarantee of a job. From what I’ve seen of the email ads, they tell you what it is. Unless they’ve changed, but as I said, the link didn’t show the actual ads or scams. Second, who would actually buy these courses? I was unemployed a good long time, but it didn’t mysteriously suck my brain out.
What I find most sickening about Primerica is that they are not a fly-by-night outfit operating out of some warehouse out by the airport. They are Citigroup, the largest company in the world.
Regarding the first point, I didn’t follow an ad; I got a call out of the blue regarding a resume I had up on monster.com. The caller completely misrepresented the nature of the work - at the time I was looking for a research job (like I’m in now) but would take an administrative assistant-type of position as well. The caller mentioned Citigroup, and spun the job description to fit what I’d stated I was looking for. I assume they must be doing things differently now, or maybe they’re still misleading the people they cold-call.
I agree about the second point, though I did see people there who seemed interested. Maybe they were shills; I can hold on to that bit of hope.
Even lower than those: I’ve gotten a couple of phony job offers where the “job” on offer was to be a patsy in somebody’s check kiting scheme. My responsibilities, the offer said, would be to accept checks from US customers of a multinational firm, deposit those checks in my bank account, and send 90 percent of the deposit on to them, keeping 10 percent for myself. Then all I had to do was wait for the cops to come bust me when the checks bounced. (They didn’t tell me about that part, I snooped around online and got the goods on them.)
Some people, undoubtedly driven by desperation, which can lower your IQ quite markedly, have been known to fall for this scheme, in fact, I imagine people fall for it quite regularly. That doesnt change the fact that the people who make these “offers” are total scum.
One guy left us a voicemail message when my husband was out of work about “your resume on Monster.” Turned out he wanted to try to get my husband to roll his 401k over to wherever it was he worked. How do these people sleep?
Interesting. I recently got an email from a TooSpoiled agent, trying to recruit me as a web designer. It may have been a semi-legitimate offer; I’m sure they need technical people to help set up their bullshit websites. Problem was that the agent couldn’t write her way out of a 5th grade homework assignment. The email was chock full of misspellings and ungrammatical goodness.
Oh, okay…sorry I was a little confused by the link (but then I’m blonde :D). Now, that IS a rotten thing to do. It’s one thing to have spam that you can just delete, but when someone calls, generally that means potential employer interest and a fairly decent (or at least interim) position.
I remember in the pre-universal-Internet-access days I went to a couple of “employment agencies” that promised you the sky in terms of a good professional job, but you had to pay two grand or so up front and they offered absolutely no guarantee of results; they would not work on contingency, nor would they give me any references of persons they had placed. Not quite as dishonest as this phishing shit, but in the ballpark.
