Sanders Cooper sanderscooper.com phishing job employment screening scam credit card fraud identity id theft New York, New York
A friend of mine responded to an ad on Craigslist for a "Warehouse Worker" job. He was contacted by beth.woods@sanderscooper.com who invited him to fill out an employment screening application on the web site www.sanderscooper.com.
He got suspicious because the application required a credit card number, supposedly to verify citizenship (which makes no sense.) Having no credit card, he stopped filling out the application.
I've found out that:
-Sanders Cooper, according to their web site, has been in business for 20 years, yet I couldn't google anything on them, and their domain name was only registered last Fall (in the Bahamas.)
-Although they give an address in New York City, they call it their "Connecticut Head Office."
-This address doesn't appear to be an office building anyway.
-The text on their web site appears to have been stolen wholesale from Manpower's site (legitimate temp agency.)
-Although the web site is slick looking, there are some odd punctuation errors and other things that give away the fact something is wrong.
So I suspect this is a phishing / identity theft site, similar to the Jobverify.net scam (that site has been taken down.)
1 Updates & Rebuttals
YD from Cambridge, MA
USAAlso known as select-personnel.com
#2Author of original report
Wed, August 17, 2011
When you call "Sanders Cooper" at their 800 number the voice mail says "Thanks for calling Select Personnel."
So I found out that www.select-personnel.com is just the same as www.sanderscooper.com.
Also, they moved their HQ overnight from New York, CT (sic) to Boston, MA.
Tomorrow, they'll probably be in Los Angeles, NV, right?
Also, they're probably the same as the (now defunct) Higgins Staffing, same phone number.