The Red Brick Times

When the company I was working for went belly up back in 2007 one of the first things I did was to place my updated resume on several national (CareerBuilder, Monster) and local (Cleveland Plain Dealer among others) "job sites". I NEVER received a legitimate contact from any of them. Instead, at least three times a week (some weeks much more often), I received spams, scams and general bullshit. The prevailing scam was an email that mentioned a potential job and quoted a starting salary. A very good starting salary. Though right off the bat this made me suspicious for the first few I went to the "human resources" link in the email to try to see what was what. They were all more or less professional looking sites with good graphics but had one thing in common; the questions they wanted you to fill out. Where have you applied for continuing education loans? Who is your cell provider? Obvious spam bait. I never felt that these job sites were properly called to task for what they were knowingly enabling or that people, mostly desperate job seekers, were warned about what was going on. At long last todays NYT has an article about some of the prevailing con games run by operators who get all their potential victims by trolling "job sites". 'Bout time.
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