I filled out a application for a warehouse supervisor position. And about 2 or 3 days later this lady emails me. She said that she had a position for a warehouse supervisor/management position told me the hours of be working and that there was a 400 dollar sign on bonus, she asked if I was okay with that. And if it was okay and the higher ups approved she would send me a employment agreement letter. Sure enough 4 or 5 days later, I get a email congratulating me on joining the firm. And the employee agreement. Which stated 24 weeks of probationary period in which they can fire me without cause and without payment. But the start pay is 87,000 a yr. And after the 24 weeks bumps up to 116,000 a yr. Now I still have to get them a signed employee agreement by the 23rd as to weather I still want to work there. And im suppose to meet someone on the 27th to start. And I forgot to mention the location is confidential and under renovation. So she never told me where to go. And still hasn't told me where it was other then driving distance. Which could be anywhere. I'm pretty sure its a scam but i can't figure out the scam. She said id be recieving a check for my 400 sign on bonus and money to get erp software. She even stated to deposit it and let the check clear both banks. So whats the scam here? What am I missing?

There’s this “company” called “Executive Personnel Group” that I applied for a couple days ago on Indeed. I read the job description and everything seemed legit until I started picking up on things. First off, the first email that was sent out was wayyyyy too wordy and too detailed and the words that were being used and the grammar was completely off and unprofessional. So that was my first red flag, (I still played along cause I wanted to see how long she would carry on if she was a scammer). The second red flag was when she called me and asked to speak with me, she sounded like she was Indian or maybe Arabian ... so I said “Yes, this is Jessica speaking”, so she went on further more explaining the job once AGAIN and then pretty much said “Im going to set you up a interview for Thursday Morning), what alerted me with this red flag is the fact that she didn’t ASK ME when was a good day and time, instead she set me up for a interview that worked best for her. So once again, I played along. So Wednesday gets here and she says “Jessica Im sorry but the recruiter will not be in the office Thursday, so I would like to set you up for Friday”. I say, “sure” (Thats another red flag because I have never had a recruiter or interviewer reschedule). So Thursday gets here, and guess who I get a call from? Smh so she say “Hello Jessica, The interview that we have scheduled for Friday we will have to reschedule because the recruiter will not be in the office that day either”. So I just kindly hung up and blocked the number. I have never been through anything like this and the whole time I was getting these so-called interviews I was never sent a confirmation email like most professional, legit company’s do. I think it is so SAD that these people can go all the way out of there way to seek very desperate people who are on the verge of giving up, just to get there personal information and make their life worse by stealing their identity, MONEY and any other valuable things. Pleaseeeeee be careful guys, Im begging you and if you see this company “Executive Personnel Group” anywhere .... REPORT THEM!

If you come across a company called United Health Group and or a person going by the name Rachel Lindberger they will ask you to download Google Hangouts and go through the motions of an interview, offer you a job that sounds too good to be true, it's a scam! Do not give them any personal information! They got me for over $3000 in new iPhones from Verizon. Luckily the fraud department caught it in time to cancel the order and resecure my account. Be careful out there!

I received a text message yesterday from an unknown number saying that they had just received my resume from Careerbuilder and if I was interested in a job, to respond. Curious, I said yes, they said I needed to talk to their HR person through Google Hangouts, so I agreed (though I was thinking it was odd).

The guy said he was with Houzz (which is a legitimate company) and we could do an interview through Hangouts (which again I thought was odd, but hey, companies are doing everything by technology these days) so I went with it. He asked me a bunch of generic interview questions and told me to answer individually and half way through, he asked me if I was done, which was odd, considering he asked the questions so he should have known, but I ignored him and finished. He said he had to 'check' with the rest of his team and he'd let me know in 10 minutes. After two, he came back and said I had the job.

So here's what was throwing up red flags for me other than the over the internet thing:
- His grammar wasn't the best, I know that not everyone's is, but I've been the target of scams before and they all seem to have this problem, not really bad but making things plural that shouldn't be, like 'what is your full names' or the opposite like 'do you have any further question' etc.
-He wanted to send me checks for a signing bonus and another to purchase two computers as well as a printer, the reason, he said, was to make sure they could trust me with money. This is very similar to a several scams I've been a target of but never fell for.
-He sent me 'Company Employment Documentation' which was suspicious as it wasn't official looking at all. I didn't fill it out and it didn't ask for anything other than my personal info and the only really personal question was 'where were you born'. I'm just now realizing that that is a common security question people use when signing up for things like a bank account.
-Honestly I'm not sure this should have, but this struck me as funny, but they offered exactly twice what I'm making at my current job, something that they could find out on Careerbuilder.

Training is to take place over Hangouts, over two weeks, this week going over documents and procedures, next week using the 'home office' I'm supposed to purchase. Today was the first day and all it consisted of was three questions that when I Googled them, they came up really quickly, I didn't even have to type out the full question before it auto filled. He wanted me to answer these questions with no less than 1000 words. Curious, I looked on Glassdoor and they allow you to see payroll of companies, and they were offering me a lot more than the people who are working there now are making, the only ones making near what I was offered were higher ups or engineers.

They were pushy, from the person who sent the text message yesterday and text me twice before I could even respond, to the guy who wouldn't let me finish answering his questions before he wanted to know if I was done. He was also very patronizing, something that makes my hackles go up big time.

The whole thing just felt wrong and since Houzz is an actual company, I called customer support, just to see if these were common practices. The lady looked up the guys name and said she couldn't find him and said that they have people come in and do face to face interviews, not over Hangouts. His email is a Gmail account, and I'm not sure if they have work emails, but I'd be surprised if they didn't. But she did say if you are interested, they are hiring, the actual Houzz, not these scammers, (I don't work for them, I just know a lot of people are looking for jobs)

I just wanted to let everyone know, in case they receive the same offer, not to fall for it. I've blocked him and if they do send me the checks, I'll be shredding them.

If anyone wants to pay to subscribe to Resume Coach to create so called resume templates, don't do it because it is a scam. Once you pay for the service, you'll get a nice little return message from Emma at Resume Coach. Then you sign on with your password and begin to anticipate the different resume templates to create a custom designed resume. Ok, that's great. But the problem is not that you cannot enter all the information, but when it comes time to enter the start and end dates. So, when the date cell is clicked on, a calendar pops up showing the current date, the days are missing and when you click on it, nothing happens. So, what good is this service if you can't enter start dates to create your resume? I even sent and e-mail to Emma, the Resume Coach yesterday and have not heard back from her since. So, now I just unsubscribed from this site because it is a scam. And it's like purchasing a car but you can't have the keys? I am very disappointed because I was impressed with the service at first, but now I wash my hands from them. Jobcasers, beware of these so called resume search engines. They are not all what they appear to be. Seems like scammers are out there taking advantage of people who are relying on a reputable resume service to create a decent resume to get back in the job market. What do you all think? Has anyone else experience this? If so, please speak up so that we will know the legitimate resume search engines from the bogus ones.

There seems to be a new trend cropping up lately on Jobcase. In the past week I have seen no fewer the six people inquiring about envelope stuffing jobs.

For those not in the know, this type of work is promised by companies as a work-from-home opportunity simply making money to mail out advertisements.

The question begs to be asked though; Why would a legitimate business want to pay humans to stuff envelopes when they have automated machines that do this already?

The short answer is, they don't.

Back in the 50's, local and big businesses used home-based employees to stuff mailers with coupons. Not too dissimilar to the Valu-Pak type coupon packets you get in the mail today. However, as automation came to fruition, businesses found that automatic sorting of these types of mailers could best be handled by machines that could literally stuff thousands of envelopes an hour and far surpass any level of productivity a human could do.

Today, any advertisement you see for envelope stuffing jobs falls into the MLM category, although it might be more accurate to call this a scheme.

The modern version of the envelope stuffing job requires that applicants purchase a starter kit that runs anywhere from 40-100 dollars. Let that sink in. What legit business would ask you to pay them so that you can do a job for them? That is a huge red flag.

The job now entails stuffing envelopes with offers to join your work from home team stuffing envelopes. The envelopes you mail out have your ID number on it. When people respond and purchase a starter kit from you, you get a few cents. Not dollars...cents. The more people you can rope into the envelope stuffing scheme the more pennies you can make. There are no products or services you are soliciting. You aren't providing marketing for any reputable company, you are simply a cog in a MLM scheme. The products and services included in the envelopes you mail out either don't exist or of such crap value that no one would actually buy them. But, should you find someone who has maybe been in a coma for the last 50 years, they may purchase something from you..and you get a few more cents.

It is not sustainable income, it costs you money as you have to keep buying mail kits. The more people you bring on the more saturated the pyramid becomes which means you are literally scouting yourself out of money.

This scheme is featured on the Federal Trade Commission's website as a known scam/scheme.

To be clear and concise:

THERE ARE NO LEGITIMATE ENVELOPE STUFFING JOBS