Post by Drifter on Apr 12, 2012 12:54:29 GMT -6
Ran across a few while sending out my resume...just thought I'd bitch about them and warn you guys. Luckily I haven't fell for any of them so far. Only thing any of them wasted was my time.
The first was a company called "Maintenance Engineering". This one is a real company, that actually sells light bulbs to businesses. This company starts out by telling you how much money everyone working for them makes...usually averages from $275,000 to $55,000 a year. Sounds wonderful. They tell you that you work from your home and get to make up your own hours. That would be so awesome if it were true. So the first thing they want you to do is buy a kit from them. It's essentially a couple of lightbulbs, a notepad with their logo on it, a few billing reciepts, and a printed company manual. Luckily the price has just went from $450 to $150. But here's where they really get you. The money you spend to sell "their" product isn't the bad part. What they tell you is that they are going to send a trainer to help you make the first couple of sales. BUT in the meantime, they want you to get any contact you have ready and set up a meeting time. So once you've had a week or so to set up these meetings, a trainer comes down to actually train you on how to sell their lightbulbs during these meetings. What ME doesn't tell you is that while the trainer is with you he gets 80% of your commission. He walks in and does all the talking to your contacts. Of course some of them knowing you are going to buy your products. The trainer makes it look like it's so easy to sell their product. Problem is that he gets your commission for your contacts. Then he sends them the product, which is really cheap crap. Of course you are left with no more contacts, and the ones you had are pissed. Leaves you making no money whatsoever. The company just used your name and reputation to sell products and you're abandoned. By this time you've lost $100 that you paid them for supplies, at least a week or two of your time, and your reputation.
Now, the second one that I came across today was GLOCOM. They sent me this email today saying they got my resume and wanted to do an online interview. Strange as that sounds, I thought okay I'll try it. So you get on yahoo messenger and add the "HR" supervisor. She proceeds to give you a 25 question test. After you've finished the test, she tells you that she is going to let the HR staff review your answers and will get back to you on whether you get the job. 5 minutes later she comes back all excited to tell you that her bosses would love to hire you. She tells you that you will be doing data entry for the company at home. Not bad, got a job once again working from home. The pay is $22 an hour. Awesome. Then she proceeds to tell you that you get a $650 bonus to start off with. Then they tell you that they are going to set you up with a nice office in your house. A new HP computer, a telephone system, fax machine, all kinds of fancy stuff. The way they do this is that they'll send you a check for say $5,000. You cash this check at your bank. You keep the $650 bonus for yourself. Then you send them back the rest to set up your office fees by Western Union. Funny huh? Why couldn't they just keep the money to begin with? That's what I couldn't figure out. I've deleted the conversation, but they had an answer. The problem is you cash this check, get the money, send them theirs, the check bounces, and guess who the bank comes after? So I had already figured out this was a scam and actually told the woman I wasn't interested in her "scam" job. She said that it was no scam, I could check out the website to verify. Which I did to humor her. The site is nothing more than a huge GLOCOM logo and a "site under construction" tag underneath. So I asked the lady how long the site had been under construction. I'd checked this site a few weeks earlier when I sent the original resume to them. She said it had been down about a month. The problem I had with that was that the company sells Dell computers (which was odd, because they want you to use HP), hard drives, software, phone services, etc. It seems like a company that is out to computers and digital services would keep a website up. I asked her that too. Her response was that they weren't a small company. I didn't understand how that answered my question. Lol. Guess her reasoning was that a small company would probably have their site up and running quick, but a large company doesn't have time to fix something like a website. Not sure. Anyway, I didn't fall for another.
There's also been another company contact me...I think it was called Solar Industries which is basically a mirror company to Maintenance Engineering. Down to the website, starter kit, and everything being exactly the same with a different logo.
The first was a company called "Maintenance Engineering". This one is a real company, that actually sells light bulbs to businesses. This company starts out by telling you how much money everyone working for them makes...usually averages from $275,000 to $55,000 a year. Sounds wonderful. They tell you that you work from your home and get to make up your own hours. That would be so awesome if it were true. So the first thing they want you to do is buy a kit from them. It's essentially a couple of lightbulbs, a notepad with their logo on it, a few billing reciepts, and a printed company manual. Luckily the price has just went from $450 to $150. But here's where they really get you. The money you spend to sell "their" product isn't the bad part. What they tell you is that they are going to send a trainer to help you make the first couple of sales. BUT in the meantime, they want you to get any contact you have ready and set up a meeting time. So once you've had a week or so to set up these meetings, a trainer comes down to actually train you on how to sell their lightbulbs during these meetings. What ME doesn't tell you is that while the trainer is with you he gets 80% of your commission. He walks in and does all the talking to your contacts. Of course some of them knowing you are going to buy your products. The trainer makes it look like it's so easy to sell their product. Problem is that he gets your commission for your contacts. Then he sends them the product, which is really cheap crap. Of course you are left with no more contacts, and the ones you had are pissed. Leaves you making no money whatsoever. The company just used your name and reputation to sell products and you're abandoned. By this time you've lost $100 that you paid them for supplies, at least a week or two of your time, and your reputation.
Now, the second one that I came across today was GLOCOM. They sent me this email today saying they got my resume and wanted to do an online interview. Strange as that sounds, I thought okay I'll try it. So you get on yahoo messenger and add the "HR" supervisor. She proceeds to give you a 25 question test. After you've finished the test, she tells you that she is going to let the HR staff review your answers and will get back to you on whether you get the job. 5 minutes later she comes back all excited to tell you that her bosses would love to hire you. She tells you that you will be doing data entry for the company at home. Not bad, got a job once again working from home. The pay is $22 an hour. Awesome. Then she proceeds to tell you that you get a $650 bonus to start off with. Then they tell you that they are going to set you up with a nice office in your house. A new HP computer, a telephone system, fax machine, all kinds of fancy stuff. The way they do this is that they'll send you a check for say $5,000. You cash this check at your bank. You keep the $650 bonus for yourself. Then you send them back the rest to set up your office fees by Western Union. Funny huh? Why couldn't they just keep the money to begin with? That's what I couldn't figure out. I've deleted the conversation, but they had an answer. The problem is you cash this check, get the money, send them theirs, the check bounces, and guess who the bank comes after? So I had already figured out this was a scam and actually told the woman I wasn't interested in her "scam" job. She said that it was no scam, I could check out the website to verify. Which I did to humor her. The site is nothing more than a huge GLOCOM logo and a "site under construction" tag underneath. So I asked the lady how long the site had been under construction. I'd checked this site a few weeks earlier when I sent the original resume to them. She said it had been down about a month. The problem I had with that was that the company sells Dell computers (which was odd, because they want you to use HP), hard drives, software, phone services, etc. It seems like a company that is out to computers and digital services would keep a website up. I asked her that too. Her response was that they weren't a small company. I didn't understand how that answered my question. Lol. Guess her reasoning was that a small company would probably have their site up and running quick, but a large company doesn't have time to fix something like a website. Not sure. Anyway, I didn't fall for another.
There's also been another company contact me...I think it was called Solar Industries which is basically a mirror company to Maintenance Engineering. Down to the website, starter kit, and everything being exactly the same with a different logo.
