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[Bulk] Re: On the Job Hunt



Dice was very, very good to me. Posted my resume and and started getting
calls in a couple of hours. 50% pay increase over last job.

Kjel

On 3/28/07, D Eric Chadbourne <eric at newmag.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> - D Eric Chadbourne
> http://www.newmag.org/
>
> 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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