#Jobscam - I got sucked into a job scam this morning!! I was dumb enough to go to store and purchase a prepaid Vanilla Visa Card for $100.00! I can't believe that I was desperate enough for a job to fall for it!! They claimed to be a company called Workiva, which is a legitimate company so when I researched it I thought all was good but boy was I wrong!!
People, please be careful in your #jobsearch and do not do what I did today!
@Patricia Walker I'm sorry to hear about that happening to you Patricia, I work diligently trying to warn people of the scams on this site!
Don't get suckered into paying anything to get a job you just made them happy
Were they using a @workiva EMAIL address when they contacted you? Don't you think when asked to buy a Vanilla Gift Card might have been a good time to end the conversation? No legitimate company would ever ask you to do that. That is when you ask for the phone number of the HR. Department of Workiva so you can check to see if this is legitimate, and that conversation would have ended in the next 5 seconds.
They tried it with me today but I know better.