Showing posts with label Employment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Employment. Show all posts

Monday, November 1, 2010

Another Craigslist Scammer

*Sigh*

Dear Sir/Madam,

Thank you for your recent application to join the Bloomberg L.P. team as our new office assistant, and my apologies for the delay in getting back to you.

We are currently receiving an increased number of applications, and as such we are asking that all potential employees correspond with us through the job.com platform. Please click the following link to proceed:

http://www.bloomberg-america.com/applications/priority

Once you have entered your contact information and uploaded your resume a member of our human resources department will get back to you within 24 hours.

We look forward to your response.

Yours Sincerely,

Anthony Scott
anthony.scott@bloomberg-america.com
Human Resources Director

This email was sent to benjamin.verschoor@gmail.com.
If you are no longer interested you can unsubscribe instantly:
http://bloomberg.createsend5.com/t/r/u/vqutk/khikjjdhh/


The insidious thing about these emails is that while there are a lot of visible warning signs, the looking-for-work reader is afraid of actually passing up a legit job offer. In order to be sure of his course of action, he has to waste a lot of time confirming his fears.

This was more difficult than before, since there wasn't anything hoaxy turning up on Anthony Scott or Bloomberg-America (the hyphenated name should have been an immediate tip-off), but nor was there anything at all showing up. Only after pasting some text from the body of the email did I find someone else who had gotten a similar offer, from a "Kevin West" representing "Thomson Reuters USA."

This makes two out of three blind Craigslist ads to end up bogus. I wonder when I'll be hearing from that "travel company" that's "near embassy row and shares a building with the Chinese Embassy’s visa office."

Thursday, October 28, 2010