Liberty National

Unsolicited Job Emails - Example: Liberty National Recruiting

Do you receive job offers or requests for job interviews (out of the blue) from Liberty National Recruiting or other companies you don't know? It's no surprise if you do. There appear to be two different scams or at least, misrepresentations, going:

1. The scum that push all kinds of internet frauds, such as identity theft and pyramid schemes (aks, "multi-level marketing") have caught the spam craze and are now soliciting new victims by harvesting email addresses (usually from jobs websites, like Monster.com, Dice.com, HotJobs, CareerBuilder, etc.).  See this page for examples of this type of email.
    
2. Now a company that calls itself "Liberty National Recruiting" is bombarding people who place their resumes on the jobs websites with emails claiming to offer jobs. The email is very vague and ambiguous. The company has been evasive and unresponsive to requests to stop sending the emails, and sending the emails to people who post resumes on job boards, particularly Monster.com, apparently with little regard to the person's resume or stated career goals. They can avoid meeting a legal definition of Spam because, by posting your resume, you have agreed to be contacted!  But this is SLEAZY even if it isn't illegal. See below:

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Liberty National Recruiting

Here's what we have discovered:

Although they hide their true identity behind the name "Liberty National Recruiting", making them sound like a traditional recruiting company, we've discovered they're part of Liberty National Life Insurance Company, which is owned by Torchmark Corporation. See this page for much more information about those companies.

How to stop the spam emails from Liberty

They didn't respond to our phone or email requests to stop spamming. The "unsubscribe" link did nothing for us. We recommend you file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau, it is free and easy to do online.  Just fill out the simple form on this page: https://odr.bbb.org/odrweb/public/GetStarted.aspx If you get a security announcement, just click OK and then "next" and fill out the form with the information from Liberty's email!

If you have any experience with Liberty National Recruiting, please email us to tell us about it! If you have a version of their email that we haven't listed below, forward it to us and we'll add it to the watch list.

See farther down this page for examples of the emails and for our attempts to reach them.

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What happens if you go to the "interview" at Liberty National? (Updated January 25, 2008)

First, here is the correspondence one person recently received, presented, verbatim, in its entirety (removing the names) from a real victim:

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THIS IS YOUR INVITATION TO INTERVIEW.

 PLEASE PRINT AND BRING THIS INVITATION WITH YOU.

This is your confirmation for our meeting this Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 12:00 PM. Corporate Vice President, Mr. J. P., and Regional VP, Mr. S. J., will be flying in and conducting interviews and meeting with qualified applicants individually.

First-year representatives (no experience necessary) earn $60,000 to $100,000 or more, and great paying management opportunities are available.

We train from day one - We have been in business since 1900 with excellent industry ratings.

"There is no security in life, only opportunity." -General Douglas MacArthur Your Confirmation number is BM008

When you arrive: Ask For Mr. GARY DOBBS

Date: Thursday, January 24, 2008

Time: 11:45 AM to 1:15 PM

Please arrive 15 minutes before 12:00 so we may meet you and give you an employment informational packet.

Location:  The Marriott-Legends at Capitol Hill                   

2500 Legends Circle

Prattville, AL 36066

334-290-2106

Attire: Business Professional

I look forward to meeting with you.   Please do not hesitate to call my cell phone number if needed.!!!!!!!!

Gary Dobbs

Branch Manager

Liberty National

2029 Holtville Road

Wetumpka, AL 36092

Office (334) 514-3084

Cell    (334) 546-2040

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A few days after this, I got a phone call on my cell at around 7pm which should have set up a few alarm bells (hadn't seen your website yet).

I get a confirmation email such as:

Liberty National Life

Hi,

This is your Email Confirmation.  Your confirmation number is #11.

Thank you for your interest with our company.  We would like to remind you of the date, time and location of the management interview.

The interview will be held Thursday 01/24/08, @ 12:00 pm.

The interview will be held at the Marroitt Legends 2500 Legends Circle Prattville AL 36066.

Please go to www.mapquest.com for directions to the interview site.

Please print this confirmation and bring this with you to the interview.

Again, thank you for your interest with our company.  We look forward to meeting you on Thursday, January 24 at 12:00 pm.

Sincerely,

J.G.
Liberty National Life
334-358-1919

This email was sent to XXX@XXX.com, by bm011@libnat.com

Liberty National Life | 225 N. Memorial Drive Suite 7 | Prattville | AL | 36067

 

Well, as luck would have it, i got a legit job offer somewhere else. so... I send them an email which was:

Something came up and i'm unable to attend.

Regards

AXXXXXX

I got ANOTHER reply:

AXXXX,

I have already told J.P. that you would be there.  Please reconsider.  This opportunity only comes once in a lifetime.  I have been with Liberty National for almost five years.  The income is UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!  I hope you will be there.

Thanks,

J.P.

THEN, the alarm bells starting ringing, i googled their name and this was the first website i came across...

so i send them this:

Erm... don't know a better way to put this but. https://www.consumerfraudreporting.org/spamjob_Liberty.php Good day.

 

Haven't heard from them since.... i just wanted to say i wouldn't know what i would have done without your website, thank you again, i bet you've saved more people than you know.

Keep up the good work.

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Here is what one victim reported to us on August 13, 2007 that describes what happens at an "interview":

"I was sent an email from Liberty National inviting me to join their company. I was looking for work at the time and was in a somewhat desperate frame of mind about it. I had a bad feeling and was rather suspicious the entire time but I did follow through out of curiosity. I phoned the local office in Mobile, AL and was asked to attend an interview at a business suite in a nearby suburb.

Upon arrival at the "interview" I found a room full of people had answered the same request. The office suites they use, by the way, are temporary suites rented on a month to month basis. Looking deeper into the equipment and decor, I figure they can move out all the props of their scam within an hour. So, in stead of the interview i was expecting it was a room full of people.

I was then entertained by a seminar of sorts with very little information of any kind. There was actually very little of any substance disclosed. What they did want was for people to get their insurance "license" which they would help us study for and take. The books and study guides we were to purchase from them, along with the testing fees and state fees added up to several hundred dollars total. I immediately started doing the math in my head and realized the nature and potential profitability of this scam! A room full of people, each paying hundreds of dollars for this. I watched several people in the group provide credit card numbers!

Then they instructed us that they would "train" us to set up our own "recruitment" offices to put on the same charade ourselves. It is a kind of pyramid type scam. Just unbelievable! I can see where you could make a great deal of money doing this type of thing, but how could you live yourself afterwards? I have a conscience and a bit of self respect. This is nothing more than taking advantage of people in desperate situations or people without the level of skepticism necessary to see through this. Horrible.

I have decided to begin a new hobby. I am going to sign up for these interviews and when they have spent all the time going over their ordeal I will then expose the truth to the group of people in attendance. If I can just help a few people not get caught in such a trap then i will have at least done some good. "

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Examples of an real unsolicited email from Liberty National Recruiting

Also see these pages for examples emails from various Liberty branch offices:

• Liberty's Alabama office,
• Liberty's Georgia office,
• Liberty's Las Vegas office,
• Liberty's Mississippi office,
• Liberty's North Carolina office, 
• Liberty's Florida office

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Sample / Example Email from Liberty National Recruiting

Still Seeking Employment? Please call me ASAP.

Sometime ago you posted your resume online for employment opportunities available in the marketplace today. I wanted to take the time to resend you an email to set up an interview. I also wanted to take the time to thank you for responding to our ad and for sending us your resume for consideration as a Liberty National representative. Liberty National is growing and we would like to talk to you about the opportunities and earning potential that we offer.

Please call me as soon as possible. I look forward to talking to you.

770-498-7158

Thank you,

Chip

Poppell

Branch Mgr.

Directions to office: See: www.mapquest.com or: Take Interstate 285 East to exit 39-B which is 78 East towards Athens. Go to exit 9 which is West Park Place Blvd. Go to the right, aprox. 7/10ths of a mile. We are on the left in Park Place Business Center, Suite 124.

Our Address is 2300 West Park Place Blvd. Suite 124, Stone Mountain, GA 30087