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Job and Recruiting Emails: yourecareerssite.com
Job and Recruiting Emails: yourecareerssite.com
Have you received an recruiting email like the one below, claiming to be from
- Your Career Site - yourecareerssite.com
- Ecareer Site - ecareersite.com
- Blue Star Job Site - bluestarjobsite.com
- Career Source Team - careersourceteam.com
- Job Source Group - jobsource-group.com
- Job Match Now - careernetworksite.net
-
hiringsolutionschannel.com
- networkedcareers.com
- power-careers.net
- thecareerapplications.com
- Others?
Actual email received by our staff:
Subject:
, Are you interested in a Management/Consulting job? From: EcareerSite - Director of HR Services [ careers@ecareersite.com ]
Dear
,
Your administrative training and previous experience are what we're looking for in an employee. After reading the resume you posted on the Internet, I believe you are a great match for our vacancy. Included below is some basic information about the position.
Director of HR Services
$60,000 - $90,000
If you are interested in finding out more about this position, please click on the hyperlink to be directed to the Web page with the full job description. This page also contains a virtual application that you can submit to be considered for the opening.
http://yourecareerssite.com/cmanager2.aspx
?em=bogusaddress@yahoo.com&id=aysrf4_
LameduckpresidtentBushhb010720084vfeer67&rd=1240&j=
3048408
Please allow a couple of days for your application to be processed. A member of our human resources department will then contact you to set up an initial interview.
Regards,
Hank Thompson
Sr. Recruiter, HR Division
Please extract_me from_your contact list.
Investigation
- On many of these websites, they list themselves as Career Network with an address in St Louis, MO. There is no phone number given.
- Their website has only 3 visible pages. We have never seen a jobs website, or almost any commercial website that has only three publicly visible pages.
- Their job listings are vague, generic and cannot be directly browsed, applied for or replied to, except through the email you received.
- The information requested in their forms is almost completely irrelevant to a job search
- The Better Business Bureau has no information about this company. See: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080102080227AA6zpdX
- They require you to enter your cell phone number - something reputable firms would not do. This is something scammers would obviously do in order to obtain cell numbers to sell on lists, since there is no listing of cell phones like the phone book for residential phone listings. For that reason, listings of cell phone numbers are more valuable.
- The link to "Extract me from your contact list" appears to be fake - we altered the query string to make a gibberish address. It accepted it and then told us it had been removed... when it could not have been in there to begin. We suspect that clicking on this link merely confirms that your email address is valid and active to them, and probably ensures that it will end up on a spam list.
- Their contact information contains no phone number, only this:
"Have a question? Interested in partnering with the Career Network? Please email us at info@jobsource-group.com. If you are a job seeker and are looking to join our network of candidates, please click here.
Career Network
400 Chesterfield Center
Suite 400
St. Louis, MO 63017
info@jobsource-group.com"If you live in St. Louis and want to drive by this office building to visually verify the name on the door of suite 400, please let us know!
Recommendation
We have yet to hear from A SINGLE PERSON who has received a job through them or any of the similar and likely related websites. If you have received a job through yourecareerssite.com or the others above, or have anything positive to say about them - PLEASE WRITE US! So far, all we have seen is very suspicious, at best.
CFR RECOMMENDS THAT YOU DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION UNTIL WE CAN CONFIRM MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THEM!
Do you have a resume posted online? We'd like to hear from you about your experiences recruiting emails that turned out to be scams or misleading - click here to write us.. We suspect these are possibly a new wave of identity theft attacks.
Note: There ARE legitimate recruiting and employment firms on the internet, and some with very similar names to those above. We recommend you check any company out before you give any personal information to them. If they do not have a posted address and phone number, or don't answer the phone, don't give them any personal information! The legal recruiters will be happy to give you contact information, return calls and act in the open!
What to do, if you DID fill out their form:
Report it to the following government agencies:
- Forward the email you received to the Federal Trade Commission: spam@uce.gov
- Contact the FBI (United States Federal Bureau of Investigation) at the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
- Contact your State Attorneys General. Your state Attorney General or local office of consumer protection is also listed in the government pages of your telephone book
Additional Resources and Sources
- http://www.fraud.org/tips/internet/equipment.htm
- http://staysafeonline.info/basics/shoppingTips.html
- http://ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt082.shtm
- http://onguardonline.gov/shopping.html
Other Jobs Scams
This set of job spams and scams may be related. And see this page for the detailed investigation.
There are a variety of sleazy scams that look, at first glance, like legitimate job offers. Before you write back to them, pause a moment and read about the scams below!
Some of the more common job scams are