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Glinda: Here is the scam alert posted on craigslist!

"craigslist SCAM ALERT

SCAM ALERT - affiliate scammers are posting bogus ads promising (nonexistent!) employment, paid research trials, or other compensation, but then notifying repliers that they'll need to jump through a hoop first, directing them to:

* background checking services
* credit checking or reporting sites
* sites where you are instructed to enter your resume or other personal information
* sites where you are asked to sign up for a "free" trial offer
* sites offering training or education
* sites offering a "system" for making money
* survey or focus group sites
* sites designed to deliver malware or misuse your identifying information


all in hopes of earning affiliate marketing commissions or otherwise profiting at the expense of persons seeking employment.


Lots of variations on this scam, but each generally involves dangling (nonexistent!) compensation, and then directing you to a website where you are asked to sign up for something, use your credit card, or input personal information such as your email address."


Glinda- Watch out for these scams. They usually forward you to a website of theirs that is barely functional. We forget how much of our real information goes into resumes and reference sheets. I ask for verification of the company now before I send them my resume. From a marketing perspective- there are companies that verify your information and the last I saw, it was $35.00 per valid lead that could be confirmed.