PhishBucket.org - Something's VeriRotten with VeriResume...

Rich C - Another interesting LUCE out there

|2007-08-02 11:53:13

Hi,

Thanks for your site. Wasn't sure how to e-mail you direct. I've been writing a little about Veriresume (and the rest of the related gang) on my travel blog for a while. Doing a job hunt I made the mistake of putting my favorite e-mail address up with my resume. Big Whoops. Wanted to say thanks for all you do.

Also, I got another one today from Adamant-Global (dot net, dot com, dot ph). These guys have a wonderful website where you can give them your e-mail address, your social security number, your paypal account, and your ebay account if you like. Take a look at them. I've only started looking into them, but put a warning on my site today as there's something really rotten going on there!

Thanks again. You've verified many things that I've found as well. Just gotta keep calling them LUCE's now, right? Where's Ricki?

Admin - Thanks!

|2007-08-03 12:10:12

I haven't heard of Adamant-Global but would love to see a copy of the email - could you forward the text to me? Send it via email instead of posting it here - you can find an image of my address on my "About" page.

I can't take credit for the term LUCE. That came from Mark Mumma.

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Johnas Maurice

|2007-08-14 15:55:32

I'm not sure if what you're saying is true or not but I have been interviewed by 3 different positions through verresume and hired for one job. I interview with At&t, Wachovia, LockHeed Martin and I was hired for there Property Administrator position 3 days ago. So I have no idea if there a scam but through them I got a great job. I doubt you'll post this but I think there great..

Admin

|2007-08-14 19:27:20

Hi Johnas,

I'm glad to hear you haven't had a bad experience with VeriResume. My issue is with the face they've put forward to the world. Because of their association to known phishers, I'm still having a hard time with these guys and am not fully convinced of their legitimacy. May I just say again that I'm glad if you're a success story, but if VeriResume wants to to earn my trust, there's a few changes they need to make first. :zzz

Thanks for sharing!

Insider - VeriResume IS a scam - I work there.

|2007-08-20 06:55:37

First, let me say that I work for "VeriResume" and they have an impressive machine working there. The create online businesses like World Voice (similar to USA Voice), TooSpoiled and Consumer Business Bureau and then advertise for jobs that don't exist yet.

Here's how it works ... they create franchises around the country by opening P.O. Boxes as addresses. For example, TooSpoiled claims to be in Los Angeles and is an outlet for people wanting to break into the entertainment industry. They open an address in L.A. and tell people that they have jobs for admin assistants, talent scouts, etc. When people looking for those types of jobs apply, they take their personal information and load it into a system designed NOT to give you a job - because they don't exist - rather to call you from a sales center that represents a group of online universities looking to bolster enrollment.

If that sounds confusing, it really is - until you get your head into how VeriResume makes their money. There are no "franchises" established anywhere in the US. Although they are legitimately up for sale, no one in their right mind would pay $100K for something that has no chance of surviving. Instead VeriResume has partnered with another company in California that has relationships with most of the Universities offering online courses. VeriResume calls to "verify information on the resume" and after a few meaningless questions, they quickly switch gears into the sales pitch. "I see Miss Jones that you never graduated from college. Most professional jobs require a degree for employment. Would you like to better your life by being a college graduate? We partner with many universities that offer courses online. Would you like someone to call you with more information."

They then pass long your information to one of the online universities and for every person that signs up for classes, VeriResume and the phone sales people get a kickback.

It's the same old "bait and switch" routine that's been used since the beginning of time - they just put a high tech twist on it.

David

|2007-08-27 20:52:33

VeriResume had a classified ad in the Indianapolis Star on 26 August for Cusomer Service Reps, pay at $17.50 per hour. I hate to admit that I swallowed it and applied online. I got soliticited immediately for online colleges and then recieved two emails with links back to VeriResume, asking me to continue with the application. I tried one of the links and received an error message asking me to contact the website administrator. I really hate people wasting my time when I am seriously looking for legitimate work.

job seeker

|2007-08-28 14:05:32

I just sent my resume and phone number in response to an opportunity with Lockheed Martin - guess who operates the site????? VeriResume - original message was from powerjobapp.com. I checked to make sure this was not another scam before completing the application, but nothing showed up for powerjobapp.com. I just pray that this was not a scam.

Mrs. C near OrlandoFL

|2007-10-02 10:31:43

:roll I just received over the past 2 days emails having to do with VeriResume. In fact, they had seen my resume apparently on Yahoo\'s HotJobs.com site and contacted me with regards to (first) a Verification Specialist position with their firm. In a further email the position title changed to Customer Service Agent. I was suppose to have an interview with a Mike in the Metro West area of Orlando, today at 3pm, although no physical address has been made known. So I re-emailed him. However, now he emailed back asking if the appointment can be changed to tomorrow, 10/3/07 at 1PM or 6PM. I emailed back for the 1PM, yet nothing has been received thus far as to my asking for their physical address. I just found your website Tabitha and my next email to them is \"To Forget It\"! Thank you so much also a thank you to the others who have posted. As one had said, \"I hate someone like this who wastes \"my\" valuable time.\"

Suzanne C - Orlando, FL

|2007-10-22 11:29:36

I applied for a job with Veriresume and was hjred for a Customer Service position. I was told to call the next week for the date of the orientation. I gave notice to my job. After several phone calls (none answered by a resl person) i went to the Metro West office. Quite a set-up, I have been to several suites and have spoken with Mike on several occassions. They kept postponing the orientation and they eventually guit replying to my emails of when orientation was. I quit a perfectly good job for a scam. If it sounds to good to be true.....

anonymous- Orlando, FL - I work for VeriResume

|2007-10-25 18:57:18

well i've been working for veriresume for about a week now and things have seemed a little fishy there. lately i've been getting calls from people saying that the second application they are to fill out doesn't work and that they feel they are just going in circles in the application process. well today i decided to finally do research about this and have found out that it is all a scam. on a daily basis i verify applications which consist of their address, phone numbers, and some other meaningless questions and then bam it's onto the education leads. all of these people who applied for jobs with toospoiled.com, scout 2007, cbbureau, adminsolutions, worldvoicenews.com... all of them are just lies! i cannot believe that all of those people i spoke to that were so excited about being reached about a job offer have been lied to. i feel so bad and feel that i've deceived so many people. now that i know the truth i will be quitting... tomorrow! i'm not even going to work.. i'm just going in to say that i'm done there and letting my other uninformed co-workers know. there is no way that i can keep working there and lieing to people being a Christian. thank you for putting this out there!

Ernie Cordell - Software Developer

|2008-05-04 04:55:48

Found your page after receiving a stinking email message and doing a Google search on the VeriResume URL.

I posted one of the messages I received on "My Other Handsome Blog" as a comment on how I had forgotten the names of one of the perpetrators and decided to put it into a search engine before taking the bait.

Not long after I received a similar message with a caveat on the bottom that the information in the message was meant solely for me, and distributing it would make me subject to legal action -- as though I were going to be intimidated by the threat of a lawsuit filed by a phishing scammer.

Elaine M. Gause - CEO, Girl Scouts of Utah

|2008-05-04 04:54:58

Veriresume is listing Girl Scouts of Utah on their client page. Our organization does not, and has never, had any sort of relationship with veriresume.com. We are appalled that this company would trade on the strength of the Girl Scout leadership brand for their own personal gain.

Jorjee

|2008-05-04 04:46:13

I wish I had read this two days back!
Well I got sold into veriresume's resume fraud prevention pitch and filled out my details there. So I'm looking forward to plenty of spam! Ugh!
This was two days back.. and today i got another email very similar to the first veriresume email.. from careers@thecareersource.org
And their website www.thecareersource.org has an uncanny similarity with the veriresume site.
So this is to warn you guys that if veriresume is a fraud, so is thecareersource.org.. i think it needs to go in the Phishbucket.
Thanks Tabitha. Appreciate your good work here.
-Jorjee

Alex Brown

|2008-05-04 04:45:20

I have just received in my email the FRAUD job offer from veriresume.com. All of the following websites are run by scammer Alec Defrawy: http://www.dynamoo.com/diary/alec-defrawy-july-07.htm

Florida's WFTV investigates the people behind the scam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hfuC7IbVdE (http://mfile.akamai.com/12939/wmv/vod.ibsys.com/2007/1106/14526058.200k.asx)

- it tells also that the list of big name companies on veriresume.com is pure fraud. It's amazing how people can beleive in such idiotic concept of "pre-screen potential employees"?! Give us emails of your former employers, we will email and ask them, they will email and response to us... My god, GET REAL...

Alex Brown

|2008-05-04 04:44:35

I forgot to add for potential "applicants": when you don't see Private Policy and Contact Info (address and phone #) on the website - it's 99.9% online scam, be aware of...