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Siemens / Monster
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Job and Recruiting Emails: Siemens from Monster.com

Have you received an recruiting email like the ones below, claiming to be from

• Siemens Staffing
• Others?

We are trying to verify with Siemens AG whether this is real or not, but the link to Monster.com doesn't work, so it looks like a scam.

CFR RECOMMENDS THAT YOU DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION UNTIL WE CAN CONFIRM MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THEM!

Have you received this email? Do you have a resume posted online? We'd like to hear from you about your experiences recruiting emails that turned out to be scams or misleading - click here to write us.. We suspect these are possibly a new wave of identity theft attacks.

What to do, if you DID fill out their form:

Report it to the following government agencies:

• Forward the email you received to the Federal Trade Commission: spam@uce.gov  
• Contact the FBI (United States Federal Bureau of Investigation) at the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
  • FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) about filing a complaint with the FBI /IC3
• Contact your State Attorneys General. Your state Attorney General or local office of consumer protection is also listed in the government pages of your telephone book

Below are a number of these suspicious emails received by our staff:

I am reaching out to you regarding an opportunity at Siemens. In reviewing your resume, your skills and experience look to be a match with some of our current opportunities.

Siemens AG is a global electronics and engineering powerhouse that employs 460,000 people in 190 countries with reported worldwide sales of $96 billion in fiscal 2005. Fortune Magazine Global 500 has named Siemens the Number One Electronics and Electrical Equipment Maker. We offer our employees an environment with career development opportunities and world-class benefits.

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity and consider a career with Siemens, I encourage you to visit our website at http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=46227702&AVSDM=2200/01/01+12:00:00 to view the available positions and apply on-line.

Sincerely,

Siemens Staffing

(Please do not respond to this email. The inbox is not monitored.)

Other Jobs Scams

There are a variety of sleazy scams that look, at first glance, like legitimate job offers.  Before you write back to them, pause a moment and read about the scams below!

Some of the more common job scams are

• multilevel marketing - Primamerica
• credit card applications (in particular, one from "Grey Marketing Team")
• 30biz.com
• Liberty National Recruiting
• Also see these Spam job emails

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