(888) 272-4814

I received the same scam this morning. I called and was suspicious that no details about the "employer" were given, and then it became a sales call about furthering my education and if I would stay on line to speak with a representative. I told them I would call them if I was interested. And...would I expect the email to follow through with the "application". haven't received that yet. Guess my terse responses to their inquiry was a clue that I was skeptical.

I received the text too, was a little disarmed because it came an area near where I live/applied. Was suspicious when I called back but they only asked me my salary requirements, work status, and education. I received the email today w/ the link to Employer-network.com. If you cross reference the address in the email: 10 Glen Lake Pkwy Ste 130 Atlanta, GA 30328; it is actually a law advocate group. I called the company at that address and they know nothing about the Employer-Network Inc..

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Career Network Scam
Have you ever heard of Career Network? If not then you may or may know if you can remember getting a call about a job. Well I honestly used to work for them. Why? Well I needed a job and with the economy the way it is. That was the only job I could find. Plus at the time I didn't know it was even that job it was misleading when I applied. Anyway when I talked to applicants many of them thought they applied for a real job. I at first thought it was real myself. Then started to get suspicious when there were more compaints and did a little research online and learned of the scams it was doing. However, I guess in legal terms from my part that I knew we weren't doing anything illegal. The verification specialist just verifys your "job application" then there was a part they told us goes to the education line. Once we were finished with verifying we would try to see if they wanted to further their education. Most people don't and that's okay. So during the process we would motivate them to go back and answer what they wanted to be. Then get them to call a 1-800 number which was to call someone for talking about school. From them we would hope that it would go through and they accepted to go to school because then we would get money. That was how we were payed and honestly it was grueling work with no benefits and nothing but commission only and getting many applications per day and sometimes getting nothing for the day. It is sick what they did but again that was the only job I could find and was hiring. So where the scam part? Well in the beginning of the few months I worked there it seemed that they illegalized a dialer system. This dialer system was where telemarketers or whoever can't call you on a system that just shot out your number and called it and we picked up. We never called them but the system did and many people don't like it when they are called. Especially those on the west side of the US because if it was 9am

I got a suspicious text from them as well. Apparently, they use your first name to disarm you and ask you a bunch of BS questions. Bottom line, they are not the employer and most likely phishing on Craigslist ( a scammer's paradise) . I did speak with them and only answered a few questions.

The creepy thing is that they have all of my information on their data base. I checked out their address from the email and the directory doesn't list them.

Here is the email I got from them:
Thank you for speaking with one of our verification specialists. All of your information is entered into our system and has been verified. To finalize your application, please proceed to the Employer Network site through the following link and enter your username and password.

Employer-Network.com

Username: (My email)
Password: (my last name)

Once you’re logged on to the site you will not only see the information for the job you’ve applied for, but also for additional jobs within the same field that may also interest you. To apply for any of them, just click the corresponding link.

Thank you for choosing Employer Network, and good luck with the job search.

The Employer Network Team

Employer Network, Inc.
10 GlenLake Pkwy Ste 130
Atlanta, GA 30328

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Thank you for the info... I got the same text on Saturday too. I thought it was strange so I decided to research the number before calling and that's when I came across this site.

I got the same text this morning..It is 10:38 on a Saturday. I refused to answer the questions.

These people texted me regarding the job I applied for some time ago on Craigslist and asked to call this 888 number. Very creepy, who texts about a job position? Nevertheless, I called them just to be sure, they say they are a "third-party verifier" and asked a lot of personal info. Looks like scam or an employment agency.