[Bulk] Re: On the Job Hunt

[eric at newmag.org (D Eric Chadbourne)]

gboyce wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, D Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> 
>> I post my resume on monster.com and like the next day this company 
>> called toospoiled.com contacts me to work for them.  Website admin. 
>> Wow, it's like a dream come true.  Health benefits and all!
>>
>> It's hard to describe exactly what got my attention.  All the alarm 
>> bells started going off.  But I firmly believe that it's a network of 
>> websites designed merely to get your personal information and then 
>> take advantage of you.  They haven't got my SSN or anything like that 
>> but they sure are trying hard.
>>
>> So just a warning about toospoiled.com and shame on monster for giving 
>> my info to these guys.  (I'm going to bitch at monster directly in my 
>> next email.)
> 
> I did a quick search and found this:
> http://www.klaasdevriesjr.nl/k-files/talentrock/toospoiled_impactww_talent_palooza_scam.htm 
> 
> 
> TooSpoiled, the next Impactww. New scam: eBandsearch
> 
> Most likely you found this site, because you got an invitation that you 
> weren't too sure about. Your gut feeling was correct. It is all a big 
> scam. The con-artist behind it is named Ayman Ahmed el Difrawi (aka Alec 
> Defrawy aka Alex Simon / Siman aka David Katz aka...), allegedly with 
> Ralph Edward Bell and Cortes Randell in the background. Defrawy is as 
> always hiding behind puppets, mainly his telemarketing sales director 
> Michael Fomkin. This mob used to be together in a line of talent 
> scouting and job scams, from Emodel.com (BBB / press) up to Lou 
> Pearlman's Wilhelmina Scouting Network WSN / Trans Continental Talent 
> TCT (BBB) and Fashion Rock (BBB). Just use any search engine to dig up 
> tons of well-documented dirt. Twisting the truth is all they know.
> 

ha! that's interesting.

these dirt bags just won't give up.  i got another email offering me a 
position at http://www.worldvoicenews.com/  i'll bet anybody 100:1 that 
it's another fishing site run by the same group of schmucks.

i let monster know.

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- D Eric Chadbourne
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority.  By 
definition, there are already enough people to do that.  - G. H. Hardy


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