Complaint Review: Nationwide Employment Services - New York New York

I received a suspicious email this morning from: Human Resource Department [[email protected]] regarding my application for employment. Upon closer inspection I recognized this as a SCAM - I keep track of all my applications and have never applied to this company.

I looked at the email headers and this is what I learned about the source:

Return-Path:

Received: from hrndva-mxlb.mail.rr.com ([10.128.255.85])

by hrndva-imta07.mail.rr.com with ESMTP

id

for Return-Path:

X-Cloudmark-Score: 0

X-RR-Connecting-IP: 208.72.2.226

X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=0 awl=host:3076

Received: from [208.72.2.226] ([208.72.2.226:3605] helo=bs3.jangomail.com)

by hrndva-iedge05.mail.rr.com (envelope-from )

(ecelerity 2.2.2.34 r(26260M)) with ESMTP

id C2/86-18193-F38BE994; Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:03:44 +0000

Accreditor: Habeas

X-Habeas-Report: Please report use of this mark in spam to http://www.habeas.com/report/

Message-ID:

Subject: Additional employment information for

Sender: "Human Resource Department"

From: "Human Resource Department"

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:03:16 +0000

To:

X-Priority: 3

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

MIME-Version: 1.0

X-Mailer: N/A

X-UserID: 176749.229349629

X-VConfig: 545

Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----AGJNG_9303_0.84261262850665011-"

A WHOIS search on Career Resource, Nationwide-employment and Nationwidecareers.com and found the following:

Here is the text from the actual email:

***The following is important information regarding your employment application with Nationwide Employment Services.

We conduct thorough background checks on qualified applicants as part of our employment screening process. We only conduct background checks when we feel a position is available for an applicant.

Our Verification Check includes the following information:

Work Experience Verification

Educational Verification

Criminal Record Verifications

Consumer Report Verifications

Each employer has a unique and specific criterion that is used to determine the qualifications of certain positions that are available within their organization. Erroneous information in your consumer report can prevent you from obtaining a job offer for which you are otherwise qualified. Companies in industries that provide employees with access to sensitive information rely heavily on the contents of these consumer reports.

We offer our applicants the opportunity to pre-verify the information that we obtain in our decision making processes.

To pre-verify your consumer report today:

As a convenience to our applicants and prospective employees, we have partnered with FreeCreditReports360.com, a company that enables you to receive your complimentary consumer report with a free 7 day trial membership in Credit Diagnosis. Please visit http://www.nationwide-employment.com/consumerreport360.htm to request your report.

You may also reach the report order form here.

We understand the frustrations that accompany your job search. It is our goal to help you eliminate as many obstacles along the way and ensure that prospective employers have accurate information before making a hiring decision.

We strongly recommend that all applicants seeking employment remain informed of any changes or inaccuracies involving their consumer report.

If you are interested in continuing with the hiring process please reply to this e-mail and inform us to proceed.

Thank you for your co-operation,

Human Resource Department

*Credit DiagnosisSM provides you with the tools you need to access and monitor your financial/credit information through the program's credit reporting and monitoring benefits. Credit Diagnosis and its benefits providers are not credit repair services providers and do not receive fees for such services, nor are they credit clinics, credit repair or credit service organizations or businesses, as defined by federal and state law. Credit services are provided by TransUnion Interactive, Inc.

FreeCreditReports360

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Dallas, Texas 75205

This email was sent to you by Career Resources. You have either submitted your resume to one of our employment centers or you have requested specific information from us. You may write to us at 140 Broadway, 46th Floor New York, New York 10005 if you wish to obtain the specific information regarding our use of your personal information. You may also ask that we no longer send you these types of correspondence. If you wish to do this electronically, you may Contact-Us to quickly prevent further communications.

This group appears to be running a SCAM. They are probably culling their targets from various job seeker portals - I'm on several so I can not pinpoint which one. I will however advise internet job board of this incident.

Job seeker

Tampa, Florida

U.S.A.