ALLEGIS GROUP SCAM-PLEASE BEWARE
My main objective is alert people of a scam that is occurring with job seekers and hopefully make as many people as possible aware so they do not fall victim to identity theft and fraud. As I am extending myself seeking employment, I often, receive confirmations of when my resume has reviewed. This morning, I received a text from this number: 415-237-7150. The message is as follows: "Good Morning, I am contacting you regarding the Admin Assistant Specialist position. Are you still interested so I can instruct you on the next step to begin." My red flags started popping up immediately, however, partly due to my curious nature and my want to confirm my suspicion I responded: yes please proceed. The next text comes and the person says their name is Michael from Allegis Group. You are then instructed to set up a google hangout and start chatting with a person at this email address: kathleenmarshall86@gmail.com. Now my suspicions are heavily increasing as this is not the normal procedure I had ever encountered with any temp agency. However, my curiosity of finding out if my suspicions were correct got the better of me. After a few web queries , I found that Aerotek is associated to Allegis Group. I did start chatting with a Kathleen and asked if it would be considered a conflict of interest as I had just registered with Aerotek yesterday. The response I received was how much will they be paying you? I said, it depends on the assignment. The following is the next response I received: Oh okay. • You will earn $29/hour • How would you like to be Paid ? Weekly Or Bi-Weekly? • What means of payment do you prefer ? Direct deposit , Check , Wire Transfer ? • What Bank Do you Operate with to see if it tallies with the company's official salary payment account ?
Of course, my suspicions were confirmed and I called the Corp office of Aerotek. A: to confirm if a scam was being run and if it was known by the company that this was occurring. They were aware and have the authorities involved. TIP: You will never receive a text message, You will never be asked to "chat", Their titles are always referred to as recruiters. They will never ask for you banking information in this manner.
This was so helpful! I got a text with a first name looking to hire. No title or anything didn’t respond, but I am looking for a job….didn’t want to do the desperate thing of getting myself in too deep to a scam.
I'm getting Allegiance Services India private limited. The person that contacted me send me a view of a poorly written job add that shows no means of payment rate. But what I find strangest is this on the job post. MarketSource Inc.Target Schedule: weekly 40 hours Pay: Hourly pay+ uncapped commissions + bonus + benefits ( monthly 07 pay cheque) Location: Portland, OR. What is a monthly 07 pay cheque? I belive that's not the spelling for paycheck!
Yep I got it too so glad I checked to see if a job at Alegis group was legit and it makes me to this post...I was like $35/ hour wth?! No way I knew it. Oh well but thanks for posting thus
Jennifer
I just received an email from Nathan Hartman of Allegis Group stating that my resume has been approved and that I need to proceed to an organized training program and I needed to install a Telegram app to proceed. Is this the same scam but with different verbiage.
The tried to scam me as well by first paying me some bucks and thinking that when I'm totally become greedy I would be going to pay them back... But but but,,, I have the gut feeling that they are scammers,,, so I just checked google and the UPI address at google pay and found it as suspicious,,, so I have not transferred any money to them. However while trying to scam me in return they have paid me 🙂 But feeling sad for those who get scammed. So guys please beware of such frauds.
Same thing happened with me today more that 1lakh i fooled by them they just fooled me i was hacked completely shit guys do no get fooled on their words they are all fooling 1000 to 1lakh went in 1 one day they will make such platform and fool you don't go into such scam stay away guys.
This is happening to me right now. I just ended the hangout. I knew it was a scam. Went looking and found this post.
Just had the exact thing happen to me... scam!!
Hi Julie, this is absolutely fantastic advice! Thanks so much for sharing your experience and also this valuable tip! You're so right, recruiters will likely never cold-text you, and you should never have to do a google hangouts interview!
I had an interview over Microsoft teams with them this morning. They provided a lot of great information but I was a little suspicious when I saw the questions posted above because they asked me the same thing. They also said they would send me a check to pay for all my equipment and for me to keep $200 as a bonus. And they want me to start at 8:00 tomorrow morning even though they said they really need to do your background investigation