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- Payson, UT, USA • Mar 06, 2024
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"Hiring Manager" calling himself Ardelia Burse emailed and then interviewed me. She then sent a fake offer letter with Authentise company Logo in the name of Sarah Franek (stolen from their website).

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- Dade City, FL, USA • Feb 27, 2024
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job interview, asked me set up interview on teams; have my email address from Indeed most likely

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- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Gave them my name, home address and social security number

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- Newport News, VA, USA
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I applied for a lease/ purchase trucking position at kda logistics in dec 2023 after their advertised offer to make 6-8 k in revenue for the truck. After I was flown to the corporate off in Illinois I find out the brand new trucks that were advertised are not offered in real life. I was shown one truck and not having an income I had no choice but to take what I was offered to make some money to feed my family. Then I get out on the road and have to come out of pocket for tolls. Money I didn’t have. So I took a load that took me to the house for the weekend. I got my first check it was roughly 580 but the overall revenue was no where close to 6-8 k so far after a month out in the road and no 6-8 k weeks I was left in Kansas with no possible way of getting my time off at home. I was sent two loads to my area .I confirmed the pickup and the both canceled before I picked them up and I was sent to the west coast again instead of getting my home time . The closest they could get me was Kansas and left me to sit for another weekend with a .26 cent paycheck for a 70 hr week. This week I payed my own way home even though I had a fuel card it was turned off so they could try to stop me from getting home although I pay for the fuel I use on the card. This week I didn’t even receive a paystub for the one week I made 7200 in revenue. This company is a scam they call you an independent contractor but treat you like and employee. I have lost more money than I have made. They are here to make themselves rich and scam your hard earned money while they do . They are not supposed to have a say in how the work gets performed just what work needs to be performed. You are not a contractor if they dictate how to do your job.

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- Chicago, IL, USA
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Sent an email as a recruiter asking me to apply for a role. When I sent my resume, she indicated it was not ATS friendly and directed me to a paid site to spend money to adapt my resume. My resume IS very ATS friendly and has been vetted on several occasions. I assume she get money from the other site by dangling jobs to people and since it's only $17 to get your resume "fixed" on the site, most people probably do it.

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- Chicago, IL, USA
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I paid for a downloadable guide to assist with updating my resume and cover letter. But once I paid and received the download none of the files would open. This site was referred to by someone named Patricia Chamberlain with a company called Brighty Agency in the U.K. after I applied for a role on ZipRecruiter.

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- Woodridge, IL, USA
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I received this email from Milestone Management Partners, although the original job post from indeed was by the company Grey Space Consulting Inc

##- Yes! You can reply directly to this email and Jude will get it. Just make sure it’s above this line so we can read it right. -##

Hi ,

Thank you for your interest in Milestone Management Partners, Inc for the Data Entry Operator opening. Your application has been received and reviewed, and we appreciate the effort you put in creating and submitting your resume through Indeed.

To proceed with the recruitment process, we invite you to read the following instructions carefully:

- We offer a competitive hourly pay of $24 along with several benefits, including health/life/disability/dental insurance, AD&D, a flexible paid time-off plan, and 401K plans.

- The interview will be conducted via Signal, a messaging platform that can be downloaded from your Google Play/App Store or downloaded directly from the web. Please add our Hiring Manager Karen Williams ,to schedule an interview with her via Signal. Her SIGNAL ID is (936) 714-4691.

We look forward to meeting you.

Regards,

Milestone Management Partners, Inc

After downloading the app they explained that their goal was to help people achieve personal or professional goals. And that they would be opening new branches near my location and therefore they were looking to hire 16 new employees to work from home. Towards the end they gave a long list of materials from macbooks to printers and other software needed and they said we needed all those things for the job. They asked for my address so they could send over a check to purchase all these items.

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- Lake Zurich, IL, USA
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I was contacted via text by Mrs. Kathleen Sluga from Sotheby's International Realty Company. She stated my resume was reviewed on CareerBuilder and I was selected for an interview for data entry position. One week training at $18.50 then $35.89/hr after I finish training. They stated it is a work from home position. They asked if I had Microsoft Teams. They gave me a code (SIRC007). I then got on Teams with the HR Manager Francesca Lisk and she asked for the code. We went through a series of questions related to working from home and experience. She also asked for my address and phone number as well as my bank name to see if they are in their "database" for payments to me. She then asked me to hold on while they reviewed by responses. After about 10 minutes, they advised that I was accepted and offered me the position. I am to sign in tomorrow to start the initial training. I will not give out any more information and glad I looked into this but I am afraid they already have too much information.

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- Aurora, IL, USA
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Received a random text message with this information to get a job. Provided requirements in text seemed like they wanted to get personal information like social security and address.

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" Good afternoon. Sorry to bother you.

We are looking for 1,000 online media workers.

Requirements:

1. Minimum age 25 years old

2. Have a U.S. social security number

3. Work for 30-120 minutes a day

Benefits:

1. Provide paid training

2. Full-time monthly salary: $5000-$8000

3. Part-time daily salary:$60-$180

4. Work from home

5. Flexible working hours

Interested parties please add Job Training Instructor on Whats

http://wa.me/447496535534?efm=oZ8mdZJQew

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- Buffalo Grove, IL, USA
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On Indeed's job board, I applied for a supposed job with "Grey Space Consulting Inc" in Naperville, IL for a Remote - Data Entry Operator position. I then immediatley got the below email. Due to the request to do an interview with a text app, I was skeptical. Additionally I was unable to find information about Jude Alime (the sender of the email) or the company online. I then reported this job as a false posting on Indeed.

##- Yes! You can reply directly to this email and Jude will get it. Just make sure it’s above this line so we can read it right. -##

Hi (*My name, redacted for privacy*),

Thank you for your interest in Milestone Management Partners, Inc for the Data Entry Operator opening. Your application has been received and reviewed, and we appreciate the effort you put in creating and submitting your resume through Indeed.

To proceed with the recruitment process, we invite you to read the following instructions carefully:

- We offer a competitive hourly pay of $24 along with several benefits, including health/life/disability/dental insurance, AD&D, a flexible paid time-off plan, and 401K plans.

- The interview will be conducted via Signal, a messaging platform that can be downloaded from your Google Play/App Store or downloaded directly from the web. Please add our Hiring Manager Karen Williams ,to schedule an interview with her via Signal. Her SIGNAL ID is (936) 714-4691.

We look forward to meeting you, (*My name, redacted for privacy*).

Regards,

Milestone Management Partners, Inc

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- New York, NY, USA
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I applied for a job using Indeed. I was notified the company wanted to move forward and that I was to download the app, Signal, and add the phone number I listed as the Scammer phone number who I was told was the Hiring Manager. Once contact was made, they said we would conduct a virtual interview via that app. After we did so, they said I was hired and would move forward with training. They then told me to do the job, I would need to purchase a list of things and to do so, I would be sent a check and then told of a local vendor to purchase those things from. I was sent a check for a large amount of money overnight and told to deposit it into my account. I told them I would absolutely not deposit the check but would be happy to write it over directly to the vendor. I had done no new hire paperwork and the return address was fishy as was the name of the company on the check. I did research on all the above discovered it was a fraudulent check and the person on the return address had been a target of fraud as well.

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- Coal City, IL, USA
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I'm Madelyn from Indeed International Recruitment Agency (USA) and we're looking for Americans over 20 years old to help hotel booking platforms optimize bookings and reviews to increase visibility and bookings through free training. We offer part-time and full-time flexible jobs working 60 to 90 minutes a day, 5 days a week, with flexible hours and location (based on your own schedule) and a basic daily stipend of $300 to $800. 100 for 2 consecutive workdays, $800 for 5 consecutive workdays, and $1,500 for 15 consecutive workdays. If you earn $3,800 for 30 consecutive workdays, you will receive $6,200 in base salary allowances for one consecutive month. Paid annual leave: In addition to maternity, paternity and other statutory leave. Regular employees are entitled to 5-15 days of paid annual leave. If you are interested, you can contact our employers at WhatsApp+ 13152742626 for more information!

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- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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hired me on then spot and wanted my personal information and had a interview with me and sent me 4-4 forms and documents to sign but it's really sketchy because they asked what bank am I with and asked if i would like weekly or bi weekly pay and would i want direct deposit and what kind of bank account do i have which that information has nothing to do with my interview but it looks legite but I never applied or even seen anything posting any type of jobs in that nature . Weird

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- Dekalb, IL, USA
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I was on indeed searching for a remote job. I applied for a company that was for Freeman Tax service and I was sent an email from a Patrick Malone ( [email protected]) tell me that their company HCL Software Devops received my resume from the Freeman's Tax company and they were contacting me for a Remote call center representative position. In that email they provided me with information of benefits that i will be getting like insurance plans, 401K plans, PTO, etc. In that email they also provided me with information to download an app to connect with a hiring manager to get interviewed with a Mr. Allen Sanders. The app was called Signal. and they had a number to reach him. the number is 6782354957. I went ahead and downloaded the app and added the number in the app and contacted Mr. sanders. Mr. Sanders contacted me back and provided me with all the information i needed to know in order to fulfill this position. I interviewed with him and they hired me for the job. He told me to message him the next day at 8am to get more information about my next process. The next day I contacted him through the app and he presented me with information about my next steps. He told me i was going to be given a check from the company to deposit into my account he told me that I needed to deposit a mobile check into my account to get the funds to send to the vendors so i can get my office supplies. They also sent me an email with my welcome letter for my position and even provided me a W4 paper where i had to fill out all of my information like my social security and some other information regarding how much I was making. I fill all those Information out and even signed my name down on the welcome letter. I did also find it suspicious he was texting me important information I needed to know on the phone. when i tried to ask him when will i speak to someone he kept going around it. Eventually he finally called me and this man sounded like a Black African Nigerian man with a strong accent. Once I received the mobile check in my email he told me I needed to print it out and deposit into my account ASAP. I didn't think much of it so i deposited the first check that was 4,550. The money that deposited into my account was 500. He tried to make me cash app that 500 to someone named a Nina Carter( cash app tag $1Sh3) and when I asked him who that was he said she was a supervisor. The payment wasn't processing through and he tried to make me cash app the payment to a Louis Collins ( cash app tag $loufrmda616). Since the payment's weren't processing through he made me buy the money in Bitcoin and send it to this bitcoin chain. The 500 was sent through there. He told me we will have to wait until the 4,000 was processed the next day so we waited. The next day we processed 1,500 through bitcoin on cash app and then we sent another 1,000 to bitcoin again. After we did this payment he told me the company was going to be sending me by supplies by Wednesday and I would get my tracking number by the end of the day. I still did not receive a tracking number for none of the shipments. He told me they will be emailing me another check so i can process it through my account and send more money to the vendors. While all of this is happening I was getting suspicious because he did not send me any vendors names. I tried to ask him and he was just going around my questions. He finally told me that the company name was Genentech Software Developer Limited for the vendor. They even emailed an invoice of the supplies i would be getting with the 4,000 they had me sent. Everything looked so real and seemed super legit. they tried sending me another check for 4,980. and that i had to wait until it processed. he made me wait until 7am to process the money and send it to bitcoin. On Monday my account went into the negatives on Monday January 29th. I told Mr. Sanders about it and he said that they are talking to my bank and taking care of it. He lied because I spoke to my Bank and they told me they did not speak to anybody regarding my account being in the negatives. The check processed to my account but only 900 was available because my bank took the 4,000 since my account was in the negatives. He told me to just deposit another check they were sending me for 5,200. He even told me once this check process i could keep 3,500 for myself since the process was becoming so stressful. I tried to process the amount. but it did not go through because my bank flagged it and returned the check. I figured this was a scam because my account went into the negatives again on Tuesday night January 30th. I kept calling Mr. Sanders and he kept hanging up after i told him my account was in the negatives and he told me that he was in a meeting which he was not at 8pm at night? He ghosted me that night. the next morning i reached out to my bank and explained the entire situation and i went to the police station and filed a police report. The Mr. Sanders man is still trying to reach me till this day. He keeps calling me and texting me.

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- Sandy, UT, USA
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$29/hr job doing customer service

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- Chicago, IL, USA
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I was using indeed and other online platforms to receive more source of income due to lost of employment and then I got this message via email.

Internal Revenue Service® received your resume in respect of our AD for the position of Customer Service Representative posted on Indeed. Based on your Experience, Happy to inform you that you're among the applicants shortlisted for an online interview.

You're to contact the Corporate Recruiter Danielle Bethune-Bergeron On Email at ( [email protected] ) to confirm your availability for the interview and acknowledge the receipt of this email. You will receive your Application Form from Danielle right after you confirm your availability. Your swift and timely response to this position matters a lot. Contact Danielle Bethune-Bergeron to let her know your Availability period. Have a great day ahead.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

All the best

HR TEAM

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- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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I received an email about being invited to interview for a company called Bosons Consulting Group for a data entry position. I set up an interview with someone on Microsoft Teams that goes by the name of Joshua Fitzgerald, who I am uncertain is or is not a real person. Afterwards they interviewed me through chatting, no video calls or anything. They said I passed the interview and then sent me an offer of employment. Afterwards they said that they will send me a check to use to purchase work equipment such as a printer, laptop, etc.. After the check arrived I took it to the bank that it says it was issued from and they marked "refer to maker" and said that it seems like a scam. I also researched more and saw that in the top left of the check they were using the name of someone named Diane M. Matousek, it also said she worked as a Clerk of Circuit Court. I googled this person and found that she had actually been deceased since 2018. No personal information was given and the check was never deposited or signed

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- Royse City, TX, USA
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Job posting on Indeed led me to submit my resume. The next day I received an email that instructed me to download the Signal App and contact Pamela Graham at (216) 250-1876 for an interview. Once I added the app and reached out the end user asked a few questions about my eligibility and work history, then said I was hired and would need a lot of equipment. I was told I will receive a check to purchase said equipment from their vendor. I’ve never heard of an employer handling business this way. I was not asked to fill out an I-9, provide ID, no camera was used only text via the app. No one asked for account payment info or for my social security number to validate who I am.

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- Chicago, IL, USA
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Tempting offer on Facebook via TikTok. Make $100. Per day via AI.

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- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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I was messaged about a at home job working with Aston Carter company, they wanted me to answer questions first some of them were suspicious like which bank I used and if I had a credit card. Then they wanted me to use id.me to verify my identity, which I did after that wanted me to screen shot my tax history page and screen shot my IP Pin number to them. They said it was for verifying my identity. But there is no reason a company needs those things. So searched for the company on better business bureau and there was nothing.

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