::: bisonium.com :::

I had to dig, but I found the company does not exist.
Here is an excellent article on this and similar scams: http://www.aarp.org/bulletin/consumer/wireless_bank_heist.html

A woman in Texas claims the forged $3,670 check she cashed against my account came from Glod-Soft. When I called her, she got out the job description that Glod-Soft had posted on careerbuilder.com. ``We're looking for someone sincere, punctual and responsible ,'' she read. The woman later told me she had lost her job recently.
Maybe some television stations could run stories on how people get rooked in by these scams. If this woman's story is true, she got duped. She said she had cashed a few Glod-Soft checks. Police reports are being filed, and she is responsible for the money robbed from me and the others.

We (Members of ScamFraudAlert.com & Scam.com) began seeing scammers posing as legitimate employers on Careerbuilder the beginning of this year. It is now August 2005 and this is still going on.

I am wondering if CareerBuilder have any plans to protecting job seekers for being scam. Or is there business model is LOOK for WORK on our board AT YOUR OWN RISK or use our database at YOUR OWN RISK.

What in the hell is going on at CareerBuilder. There ought to be a management changed.

I got duped from a Careerbuilder.com job scam. I was arrested, falsely charged and I went through nine months of living hell in and out of court until the charge was finally dropped. But today I still cannot get a job because the someone blocks all my leads.

Very nice blog.

The same scam is now operating as "AvaSoft Line" (avasoftline.net).

Do not post a job on Careerbuilder .com. They are scam artist.They take your money and keep post your job to a backend board that you will never get any traffic. Monster.com is the way to go.Stay away from Michael Post he will not help you at all.

Bobbie Jean, I would like to know more about your situation, as I am probably looking at the same dismal outcome. I can be reached at tadams76063@sbcglobal.net

Thank You,

Tina

I've had the same miserable experience with CareerBuilder.

Thus far, I've mostly received "offers" from multi-level marketing companies, but just this morning received a message very similar to the one above. This time, however, the scammers used a real company's name, claiming that they only had offices in Latvia.

Their mistake, perhaps, was to give the URL of the real company, which plainly lists offices all over the globe. Interestingly, they DO NOT have an office in Latvia, and DO have a whole host of offices in the United States.

I plan to contact the company in question, whose name and credibility are being used to promote fraudulent activity.

Yeah, having a similar experience with Careerbuilder. I signed up about three weeks ago. Since then I get (on average) an email a day from an obvious scammer. Most are pretty blatant, but a couple on first glance look pretty legit. Only on the second and third glance you realized you never applied for these jobs, and they don't even appear to be germaine to your field. For instance got an email offering me a "job" in sales...But I'm a writer with no sales experience. Its a nuisance for me and I know because of it I will eventually ignore a genuine freelance / contract job. But I real feel for the people desperate for work who get sucked into this. Bad business Careerbuilder.

I have been applying for jobs on CareerBuilder and posting resumes for the past six months...I am a licensed insurance agent, have extensive IT experience, and other skills, but what I received in reply?...Nothing...Although many legitimate corporations appear to be using CareerBuilder as an 'employment agency', one will find that all you will receive will be automated emails...and the one or two phone calls I received were from 'third party' agencies whose only job was to 'skim' various 'e-resumes'...No direct contact from companies or corporations themselvs...I have concluded that either I am totally unqualified, or, more likely, CareerBuilder is a marketing ploy and scam.

I am quite apalled that Career Builder allows these "scammers" to exist...After going on a "preliminary" interview this morning for an "entry level marketing position," I decided to do a little research before going back for a supposed "all day 9-5 observational" interview tomorrow. I'm reading all kinds of reports about these types of vague companies actually being quite deceitful, and instead of following through on their promise of working with "top clients" like the Chicago White Sox and "Fortune 500 companies," they actually make you do door-to-door sales with crappy products like coupon booklets. If this is true I am definitely investigating more and perhaps even contacting news outlets about this insanity. What is wrong with Career Builder?

I too went through the same problem with careerbuilder, about 3 months ago I applied to a company called Bi-Global Inc as a Customer Service Rep, a few days later I get an email from this company stating that I have gotten the Secret Shopper Job well this would've been fine if I'd applied for this position, my first assignment was to go to my local Money Gram outlet and cash a $1900 check then I was instructed to deduct my $200 commission minus the money gram fee then I was to cash the remaining balance back to a "so call relative" and I had to write my evaluation regarding the services I recieved, this automatically raised a red flag for a couple of reasons 1) why would anyone send someone such a large amount of money? 2) I got the job proposal at 4:30 am 3) why would I have to cash a money order, then send half back? Well I tried searching for this company, it didn't suprised me that they don't exist , I got a call the night the check was to arrive by some guy that I couldn't even understand asking if I've recieved the "package" ? I said No. I did a little diggging and my suspicions were confirmed I was furious, mostly at careerbuilder, I sent them a email asking how could they not invistigate these supposed jobs they post? Who could they allow innocent people who desperately need a job get scam? I reported the Bi-Global Inc to the bbb and FTC ... I also reported the company to careerbuilder I haven't heard from them, I'm frighten to even do a job search or to apply, I'm just happy that me and my hubby had enough sense to check this out, I was sooo angry I wanted to sue careerbuilder... If you read their privacy page it states that it's the job seekers responsibility to invistigate jobs, I say Yes and No, when I post my resume I expect to be safe from fraudulant idiots, I expect the job site I post my resume on to have my back, it's their web site , they should invistigate before putting people at risk.... I should have reported careerbuilder... Now the only jobs that respond to my resume claim to be customer service jobs but when you get there your knocking on peoples door for 8 hours trying to sell them something... Now I fully check whatever job responds for I am nobodies fool and I will not become a victim....