Complaint Review: Career Network - Orlando Florida

I pride myself in not being duped, but I was contacted by Career Network, Inc. (portions of email to me pasted below) after I responed to what sounded like a great Assistant job at a high salary, that should have been the clue in this economy, but Executive Assistants can earn up to $58K in California. He posed the job in the Orange County section in California, which may have been a mistake. Big mistake for him, my last permanent position with a lender was investigating fraud and helping identity theft victims for a lender before the succumbed to the economic crises. I can directly link Career Network with the ad response as they copied the exact title from the craigslist ad back into the response that said, your resume is going to be passed along with a link, which sounds the same, it has, of course, the pages included, the typical college ads, insurance ads, then it got to the personal references. Since monster and others do ask about the college education, etc., it is difficult to tell it is a possible scam at this point, but when I got to the personal and work reference pages, I knew. Think about it, legitmate agencies, and employers, and even legitimate on-line agencies you never met (www.cybercoders.com is a legitimate on-line recruity agency, with real reps who work one-on-one with you via email much like going to an agency office, they're great.), never ever ask for personal info of others you know, until you are speaking to a live person about the job, or in person. An actual interviewer. I filled in dummy info, so that I could get thorugh the application, as they obviously already had my info when I sent my resume on. The only thing you can do to stop them is report to the sources they use, so that eventually they will get blocked. I will be reporting the add to craigslist, as they can block the account set up with this. And also reporting on here. But, they can set up new info and start again. I should know better as fraudsters don't steal just an identity such as a license, etc., they make composite people, with someone's social, someone elses name, and other's work records. You have to check your credit report. The sad thing is once a bogus record gets on, the most difficult thing to correct, is not the bogus loans or financial information, it is the bogus address locations. You wouldn't believe some of the things I saw while working in conjunction with the Secret Service, FBI and Homeland Security. I do my best to report, and craigslist is even thinking of partnering with legal agencies now, when I spoke to them last, rather than just blocking from their site. All legitimate want and appreciate reporting. Here is the email response I received, and of course my response to this email came back as a bad email address, but a name is listed related to this company. I will be doing futher reporting, as they are gathering other information, this is the first one I've seen doing that with the friends, but it may be just to have a bigger database to advertize. I always wonder if they ever get anyone to buy into the ads, if they don't steal identity info, I can't see them making money on the advertisements at all. ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: "[email protected]" To: Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 5:59:51 AM Subject: Regarding your application for the Executive Assistant - To $58K/yr position. Your recent application for the Executive Assistant - To $58K/yr position with The Career Resource has been reviewed by our Human Resources Department. Upon reviewing your application it was determined that you meet the initial requirements mandated for this position. I would be pleased to recommend you as a potential candidate for this position. You may visit our website at the following location if you are still interested in the position: http://thebestcareerresource.com/[email protected]&id=thecareerresource2nds10172008&jb=5406296 Upon opening the application page you will be prompted to enter a login id. The following login id may be used to access the site: Username: Password: After you have logged into the site you will be asked to review and verify the information that we currently have on record. We may require additional information from you in order to more rapidly make a final hiring decision. After a final review of your completed application we will contact you directly. Sincerely, Gregory Adkinson Human Resources Career Network, Inc. P.O. Box 618305 Orlando, Florida 32861-8305

I pride myself in not being duped, but I was contacted by Career Network, Inc. (portions of email to me pasted below) after I responed to what sounded like a great Assistant job at a high salary, that should have been the clue in this economy, but Executive Assistants can earn up to $58K in California. He posed the job in the Orange County section in California, which may have been a mistake. Big mistake for him, my last permanent position with a lender was investigating fraud and helping identity theft victims for a lender before the succumbed to the economic crises. I can directly link Career Network with the ad response as they copied the exact title from the craigslist ad back into the response that said, your resume is going to be passed along with a link, which sounds the same, it has, of course, the pages included, the typical college ads, insurance ads, then it got to the personal references. Since monster and others do ask about the college education, etc., it is difficult to tell it is a possible scam at this point, but when I got to the personal and work reference pages, I knew. Think about it, legitmate agencies, and employers, and even legitimate on-line agencies you never met (www.cybercoders.com is a legitimate on-line recruity agency, with real reps who work one-on-one with you via email much like going to an agency office, they're great.), never ever ask for personal info of others you know, until you are speaking to a live person about the job, or in person. An actual interviewer. I filled in dummy info, so that I could get thorugh the application, as they obviously already had my info when I sent my resume on. The only thing you can do to stop them is report to the sources they use, so that eventually they will get blocked. I will be reporting the add to craigslist, as they can block the account set up with this. And also reporting on here. But, they can set up new info and start again. I should know better as fraudsters don't steal just an identity such as a license, etc., they make composite people, with someone's social, someone elses name, and other's work records. You have to check your credit report. The sad thing is once a bogus record gets on, the most difficult thing to correct, is not the bogus loans or financial information, it is the bogus address locations. You wouldn't believe some of the things I saw while working in conjunction with the Secret Service, FBI and Homeland Security. I do my best to report, and craigslist is even thinking of partnering with legal agencies now, when I spoke to them last, rather than just blocking from their site. All legitimate want and appreciate reporting. Here is the email response I received, and of course my response to this email came back as a bad email address, but a name is listed related to this company. I will be doing futher reporting, as they are gathering other information, this is the first one I've seen doing that with the friends, but it may be just to have a bigger database to advertize. I always wonder if they ever get anyone to buy into the ads, if they don't steal identity info, I can't see them making money on the advertisements at all. ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: "[email protected]" To: Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 5:59:51 AM Subject: Regarding your application for the Executive Assistant - To $58K/yr position. Your recent application for the Executive Assistant - To $58K/yr position with The Career Resource has been reviewed by our Human Resources Department. Upon reviewing your application it was determined that you meet the initial requirements mandated for this position. I would be pleased to recommend you as a potential candidate for this position. You may visit our website at the following location if you are still interested in the position: http://thebestcareerresource.com/[email protected]&id=thecareerresource2nds10172008&jb=5406296 Upon opening the application page you will be prompted to enter a login id. The following login id may be used to access the site: Username: Password: After you have logged into the site you will be asked to review and verify the information that we currently have on record. We may require additional information from you in order to more rapidly make a final hiring decision. After a final review of your completed application we will contact you directly. Sincerely, Gregory Adkinson Human Resources Career Network, Inc. P.O. Box 618305 Orlando, Florida 32861-8305

I pride myself in not being duped, but I was contacted by Career Network, Inc. (portions of email to me pasted below) after I responed to what sounded like a great Assistant job at a high salary, that should have been the clue in this economy, but Executive Assistants can earn up to $58K in California. He posed the job in the Orange County section in California, which may have been a mistake. Big mistake for him, my last permanent position with a lender was investigating fraud and helping identity theft victims for a lender before the succumbed to the economic crises. I can directly link Career Network with the ad response as they copied the exact title from the craigslist ad back into the response that said, your resume is going to be passed along with a link, which sounds the same, it has, of course, the pages included, the typical college ads, insurance ads, then it got to the personal references. Since monster and others do ask about the college education, etc., it is difficult to tell it is a possible scam at this point, but when I got to the personal and work reference pages, I knew. Think about it, legitmate agencies, and employers, and even legitimate on-line agencies you never met (www.cybercoders.com is a legitimate on-line recruity agency, with real reps who work one-on-one with you via email much like going to an agency office, they're great.), never ever ask for personal info of others you know, until you are speaking to a live person about the job, or in person. An actual interviewer. I filled in dummy info, so that I could get thorugh the application, as they obviously already had my info when I sent my resume on. The only thing you can do to stop them is report to the sources they use, so that eventually they will get blocked. I will be reporting the add to craigslist, as they can block the account set up with this. And also reporting on here. But, they can set up new info and start again. I should know better as fraudsters don't steal just an identity such as a license, etc., they make composite people, with someone's social, someone elses name, and other's work records. You have to check your credit report. The sad thing is once a bogus record gets on, the most difficult thing to correct, is not the bogus loans or financial information, it is the bogus address locations. You wouldn't believe some of the things I saw while working in conjunction with the Secret Service, FBI and Homeland Security. I do my best to report, and craigslist is even thinking of partnering with legal agencies now, when I spoke to them last, rather than just blocking from their site. All legitimate want and appreciate reporting. Here is the email response I received, and of course my response to this email came back as a bad email address, but a name is listed related to this company. I will be doing futher reporting, as they are gathering other information, this is the first one I've seen doing that with the friends, but it may be just to have a bigger database to advertize. I always wonder if they ever get anyone to buy into the ads, if they don't steal identity info, I can't see them making money on the advertisements at all. ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: "[email protected]" To: Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 5:59:51 AM Subject: Regarding your application for the Executive Assistant - To $58K/yr position. Your recent application for the Executive Assistant - To $58K/yr position with The Career Resource has been reviewed by our Human Resources Department. Upon reviewing your application it was determined that you meet the initial requirements mandated for this position. I would be pleased to recommend you as a potential candidate for this position. You may visit our website at the following location if you are still interested in the position: http://thebestcareerresource.com/[email protected]&id=thecareerresource2nds10172008&jb=5406296 Upon opening the application page you will be prompted to enter a login id. The following login id may be used to access the site: Username: Password: After you have logged into the site you will be asked to review and verify the information that we currently have on record. We may require additional information from you in order to more rapidly make a final hiring decision. After a final review of your completed application we will contact you directly. Sincerely, Gregory Adkinson Human Resources Career Network, Inc. P.O. Box 618305 Orlando, Florida 32861-8305

I pride myself in not being duped, but I was contacted by Career Network, Inc. (portions of email to me pasted below) after I responed to what sounded like a great Assistant job at a high salary, that should have been the clue in this economy, but Executive Assistants can earn up to $58K in California. He posed the job in the Orange County section in California, which may have been a mistake. Big mistake for him, my last permanent position with a lender was investigating fraud and helping identity theft victims for a lender before the succumbed to the economic crises. I can directly link Career Network with the ad response as they copied the exact title from the craigslist ad back into the response that said, your resume is going to be passed along with a link, which sounds the same, it has, of course, the pages included, the typical college ads, insurance ads, then it got to the personal references. Since monster and others do ask about the college education, etc., it is difficult to tell it is a possible scam at this point, but when I got to the personal and work reference pages, I knew. Think about it, legitmate agencies, and employers, and even legitimate on-line agencies you never met (www.cybercoders.com is a legitimate on-line recruity agency, with real reps who work one-on-one with you via email much like going to an agency office, they're great.), never ever ask for personal info of others you know, until you are speaking to a live person about the job, or in person. An actual interviewer. I filled in dummy info, so that I could get thorugh the application, as they obviously already had my info when I sent my resume on. The only thing you can do to stop them is report to the sources they use, so that eventually they will get blocked. I will be reporting the add to craigslist, as they can block the account set up with this. And also reporting on here. But, they can set up new info and start again. I should know better as fraudsters don't steal just an identity such as a license, etc., they make composite people, with someone's social, someone elses name, and other's work records. You have to check your credit report. The sad thing is once a bogus record gets on, the most difficult thing to correct, is not the bogus loans or financial information, it is the bogus address locations. You wouldn't believe some of the things I saw while working in conjunction with the Secret Service, FBI and Homeland Security. I do my best to report, and craigslist is even thinking of partnering with legal agencies now, when I spoke to them last, rather than just blocking from their site. All legitimate want and appreciate reporting. Here is the email response I received, and of course my response to this email came back as a bad email address, but a name is listed related to this company. I will be doing futher reporting, as they are gathering other information, this is the first one I've seen doing that with the friends, but it may be just to have a bigger database to advertize. I always wonder if they ever get anyone to buy into the ads, if they don't steal identity info, I can't see them making money on the advertisements at all. ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: "[email protected]" To: Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 5:59:51 AM Subject: Regarding your application for the Executive Assistant - To $58K/yr position. Your recent application for the Executive Assistant - To $58K/yr position with The Career Resource has been reviewed by our Human Resources Department. Upon reviewing your application it was determined that you meet the initial requirements mandated for this position. I would be pleased to recommend you as a potential candidate for this position. You may visit our website at the following location if you are still interested in the position: http://thebestcareerresource.com/[email protected]&id=thecareerresource2nds10172008&jb=5406296 Upon opening the application page you will be prompted to enter a login id. The following login id may be used to access the site: Username: Password: After you have logged into the site you will be asked to review and verify the information that we currently have on record. We may require additional information from you in order to more rapidly make a final hiring decision. After a final review of your completed application we will contact you directly. Sincerely, Gregory Adkinson Human Resources Career Network, Inc. P.O. Box 618305 Orlando, Florida 32861-8305