F**n pissed.. WTF's up with SCAMS lately??!?!

LOLyourFace

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Should I even bother going to the interview tomorrow in Boston? It'll be a pain in the ass to get to the city, nevermind the classes I'll be missing...

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EDIT, the REAL JOB DESCRIPTION
Talent Scouts" by far the most egregious abuse of job seekers through Monster.com. Who can become a "talent scout"? Anyone. Presently they list around 1,500 "job ads" on Monster.com for "talent scouts" (they also call them other names) but the fraud is still the same. These are listed under Wilhelmina Scouting Network (modeling, acting, music), Edge Talent (where they are trained to scam high school athletes making them believe if they pay $1000 they will get a scholarship and be seen by over 1,000 universities... TRUTH: They don't have relationships with ANY university.) and Industry Magazine (consumer fraud, employment fraud and franchise fraud)
"Talent Scouts" and what they are doing now for more free labor is calling them "Interns". They list on college job boards, go to college job fairs, tell lies and get them excited (We never said they weren't excellent liars) and get more free labor. We estimate that there might be up to 30,000 of these "talent scouts" that have been unpaid, not paid what they actually earned through not receiving credit by "corporate", all of have been misclassified based upon the IRS 20 factor test ATTN: IRS..you have money you need to collect from these TAX EVADERS. Back pay, taxes, benefits...see the Monster.com jobs ads lead you to believe that this is true, but it is not. When someone answers a "job ad" to be a "talent scout" an auotmatic message comes back...QUESTION: every single one of these messages comes back with a false name of someone who does not exist at the company and giving a job title..I just wonder if that is fraud as well...hmmm let me see, YES! They take them in give them training, give them all the materials and tell them where to go..they also give them some commission chart.....how many people actually get that full time job..almost none...more free or almost no cost labor..but big money for the criminals...BTW they make them work the open calls to defraud consumers..NO these people are not Independent Contractors..for more on this read our other employment fraud page.


What kind of job do you think this is? The description is rather vague. It looks like the company is a model agency, seems reliable though..
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My resume shows heavy sales background, FYI...

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I got a job interview tomorrow @ Downtown crossing, 8 winter street... I just want to double check how to get there on top of the mapquest directions and would like to know about appropriate parking places...

 

LOLyourFace

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Originally posted by: Geekbabe
Take the T into downtown crossing,parking is horrid and terribly expensive in town.

it'll take forever for me to take the T into the city from Lowell. I'll need a car anyways just to get to the train station/get back home. Driving is much better option here even if I have to cough up $10-15~ for parking.

I can probably find parking in Boston Common anyways.. and walk 3 miles.. lol
 

Hammer

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there was a thread about them posted recently about them. someone was saying they got scammed. they operate under a different name, but i can't remember what it was. sorry.
 

LOLyourFace

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Originally posted by: Hammer
there was a thread about them posted recently about them. someone was saying they got scammed. they operate under a different name, but i can't remember what it was. sorry.

whoa! go on.. are you sure?
 

Hammer

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they're not related the wilhemina modeling agency, they just use the name. i tried searching for it just now, but i can't remember what the title was. you should look into it more closely.
 

LOLyourFace

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Originally posted by: Hammer
they're not related the wilhemina modeling agency, they just use the name. i tried searching for it just now, but i can't remember what the title was. you should look into it more closely.

so it isn't this company then. it was the scammer that disguised as the wilhelmina?
 

LOLyourFace

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Originally posted by: Antisocial-Virge
Quick google search

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/ars/10907479.html
http://www.transconscam.com/
http://myfloridalegal.com/lit_ec.nsf/2c8e275c590c080e852563cc0010d6bc/1c8b03354d18a5a385256c0e00621651

Oh yea trans cont that you see mentioned in some of those articles being the same company but with a different name? Thats Lou Pearlman's company. The making of a boyband guy who is getting his ass sued off lately.

just wtf is up with these companies lately? Primerica and this company both want you to sign up as Independent Contractor.. What does that mean really? I'm gonna avoid companies that want you as IC like a plague from now on.

should I even bother going into Boston tomorrow morning for the interview?
 

Antisocial Virge

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I might be wrong but I think companies like that make you a " Independent Contractor" so they basically can pay you nothing if you don't perform well and don't have to pay you any benefits. As a independent contractor would you have to take care of your own taxes and everything?
 

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hey that scam looks like another talent scout one I applied to awhile back just for the heck of it (in LA tho). There was this lame test u had to take online to choose 'your models' but no matter how u answered you were always what they were looking for. Later got an email for an interview but from just reading the description in the email about it, its like a huge gathering with other ppl too like a pyramid scheme of some sort. I didnt bother to go. So odd when they want u with no scouting/sales exp at all.