Job Scam- Wanted to give a heads up

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Hi All,

I wanted to let you all know about a job scam that's going on here in Michigan. My girl friend alerted me to it last week, and then I got the same call.

She was called by a gentleman who stated that he had received her resume from the school that we attended and that she had gotten excellent recommendation from her instructors and then called her to do a phone interview. The job, as it was explained, would be working in a health and wellness office assisting a doctor and other medical staff for better nutritional status, weight loss, lowering blood pressure, etc. She said the phone interview lasted about 10 minutes and that it was fairly detailed as to what was going on. (This was Monday last week.) He then invited her in for a face to face interview, on Thursday, which is where the scam comes in. She went to her interview, and it turned out to be a sales presentation for a multi-level marketing company; there was no job offer at all. In fact, there was no doctor or any other medical staff there at all. She said they tried to pressure her very hard to put about $200 down to start her own vitamin business and then pay for a training seminar. It was very high pressured, and she was really uncomfortable; she said she never did get to talk to the guy who originally called her. She left heart broken as she was sure that she was going to get the job.

I bring this up, because by coincidence, I had a message from the same guy, calling from the same phone number on my cell phone today. Only in his case, he listed a doctor that I have actually worked with; not that he had gotten my information from school.

Just wanted to make you guys aware of this; question any random out of the blue job offer/interview calls.

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In this day and age, if someone calls you out of the blue to offer a job, you better believe it is nothing but a scam.

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Thanks for the heads up.. :)

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I am just curious if you or your friend had submitted your resume to any of those job sites where you post your resume and potential employers contact you if they are interested? I have never done that because you never know who might see your resume and pull a scam like that. Instead I only submit my resume to specific well known companies for a specific posted job opening. There are also a lot of scams on Craigslist so watch out. Thanks for the info. With this economy there are more and more scam artists out there taking advantage of people.

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Dwern31

she was registered on a few sites. Much works and career matrix. She had also called the school though and had given them the ok to send her resume out. I am wondering if these job scam people are starting to call career services at schools to get information. It's a little scary!

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I got the same call a few months ago.. tho I never went thru the phone interview. I told them I was not interested. I went to Ross Medical a couple years before and I believe they said they got my name from Ross... I did not know it was a scam but it did not sound very legit either. No one cold calls people to hire them for a job...

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was it a company called symmetry? a girl i used to work with also worked for that company as a 'nutrition consultant.' it always seemed very sketchy to the rest of us.

it's all over the country btw, not just in michigan. the above mentioned girl has lived in several cities all over the nation selling the product.

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was it a company called symmetry? a girl i used to work with also worked for that company as a 'nutrition consultant.' it always seemed very sketchy to the rest of us.

it's all over the country btw, not just in michigan. the above mentioned girl has lived in several cities all over the nation selling the product.

I'm not sure. She did say that on the phone the guy told her it was something like West Michigan Wellness Center, but when she showed up there was a completely different company name and information presented to her.

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Yes the call I received was from that symetry (sp?) and it was for a nutrition consultant. Sounded like a total scam to me.

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I received a phone call from out of the blue for a home health supervisory job. The manager calling me stated that they received my resume from the owner's "cousin".

The agency was "real" and listed as medicare certified.

The job was nothing but a medicare fraud scam.

I was lucky to have another job already in place so I could just get out of there.

The company was in terrible trouble and was committing fraud.

How stupid of me to answer a phone call from out of the blue.

Be careful, some people just pass your resume around and some actually sell resumes.

I don't answer any blind ads that don't list the name of the company. What are they hiding? Why can't they say who they are? Hmmmmm.....

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I also do not answer blind ads. No name of company or phone number that I can check back to obtain name of company, no response from me.

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Specializes in NICU.

"Creeper no creeping! Creeper no creeping!" is the thought that runs through my head while reading this. I'm sorry for your friend.

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