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Have you received an email like the one below, claiming to be from
We're currently investigating these. We noticed a pattern when our own staff started receiving them in mid-January 2007 and now receive several per day. We created a dummy resume with a fake contact address, phone and email that we set up to receive the response. After we filled out their online form, the screen went to a blank page, no confirmation, no statement of what is next, etc. These REALLY look suspicious. Even more suspicious, there is NO contact information on their website at all; no address, no phone numbers, not even an email address or feedback form. There is only a form to enter your information and a cryptic login (with no way to register for it).
CFR RECOMMENDS THAT YOU DO NOT GIVE THEM ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION UNTIL WE CAN CONFIRM MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THEM! Their goal appears to be to get referral fees by getting you to sign up for online colleges. DO NOT click on the links to "Click here to be removed from any future employment offers" .
If they contact you back with a login, as they did one victim, you will be presented ads for online colleges - see this screenshot we obtained by logging in.
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.
Report it to the following government agencies:
As you can tell by the number of nearly identical emails below, there's no way that they can be legitimate.
Dear Christy,
I recently saw your resume online and I feel you would be a good candidate for the Marketing Manager position we are offering at eBandSearch. We are a company that combines the powers of the Internet, television, and local events to truly select the top musical artist/group in the country.
Marketing Managers hire, train, and manage a team of 200 - 500 street team members, the eyes and ears of the musician.
We offer our Marketing Managers the following:
Highly competitive salary
Bonus plan that can add 25% or more to Base Salary
Paid Vacation
Expense Account
Medical, Dental, and Vision plan
Tuition re-imbursement
Rapid Fast Track Advancement Program
Christy, if you feel the Marketing Manager position is right for you, visit the link below and fill out the online application. If the link does not work in your browser, you may copy and paste the link to go to the webpage.
http://ebandsearch.com/careers/opportunities.cfm?jpID=4965111
Once I receive your online application, I will contact you within one to two business days.
I look forward to hearing from you soon and I wish you the best in your future endeavors.
Joyce Tomlinson
eBandSearch
Click here to be removed from any future employment offers.
Dear Scott,
Our HR Department has indicated that you applied with eBandSearch.com for the Web Developer position. We have received your application and feel you meet the initial requirements that we are looking for and would like to recommend you as a qualified candidate for addition to our team.
If you are still interested in the position, please visit our website at http://www.eBandSearch.com?jpID=729762.
When you first login, you will be asked to verify some basic information. The system will then ask for some additional information from you to help in the final hiring decision. Once you complete this process, your application will be forwarded for final review and you will be contacted directly via e-mail to setup a conference call so we can begin your training process.
If you have not already read more about eBandSearch, please click here to see our "About Us" page. We look forward to working closely with you and wish you the best for your future.
Sincerely,
Phillip Marstand
eBandSearch
Dear sheila
I recently saw your resume online and I feel you would be a good candidate for the Admin Assistant position we are offering at eBandSearch. We are a company that combines the powers of the Internet, television, and local events to truly select the top musical artist/group in the country.
sheila , we are looking for individuals who would like to work in their local areas in locating and identifying performing artists in all music genres and assisting them to become more successful... and perhaps even making the big time. Duties of our Admin Assistant include:
We are looking for individuals who would like to work from home in an administrative support function for Artists, Promoters and other industry professionals. Our administrative support staff creates and edits documents, arranges schedules, makes travel and hotel plans, takes messages, and a variety of other support services - all from their home.
Your background makes you an ideal fit for the position. We offer our Admin Assistant the following:
- Competitive compensation
- Flexibility - you can work your own hours, just as long as you put in at least 40 hours each week.
- Opportunity for rapid advancement. The person we are looking for is reliable, consistent, hard working, and has a love for all kinds of music.
- Tuition re-imbursement
- Advancement opportunities
sheila , if you feel the Admin Assistant position is right for you, visit the link below and fill out the online application. If the link does not work in your browser, you may copy and paste the link to go to the webpage.
http://ebandsearch.com/careers/opportunities.cfm?jpID=5096716
Once I receive your online application, I will contact you within one to two business days.
I look forward to hearing from you soon and I wish you the best in your future endeavors.
Joyce Tomlinson
eBandSearch
Click here to be removed from any future employment offers.
Dear Andrew ,
I recently saw your resume online and I feel you would be a good candidate for the Marketing Manager position we are offering at eBandSearch. We are a company that combines the powers of the Internet, television, and local events to truly select the top musical artist/group in the country.
Marketing Managers hire, train, and manage a team of 200 - 500 street team members, the eyes and ears of the musician.
We offer our Marketing Managers the following:
Highly competitive salary
Bonus plan that can add 25% or more to Base Salary
Paid Vacation
Expense Account
Medical, Dental, and Vision plan
Tuition re-imbursement
Rapid Fast Track Advancement Program
Andrew , if you feel the Marketing Manager position is right for you, visit the link below and fill out the online application. If the link does not work in your browser, you may copy and paste the link to go to the webpage.
http://ebandsearch.com/careers/opportunities.cfm?jpID=4537995
Once I receive your online application, I will contact you within one to two business days.
I look forward to hearing from you soon and I wish you the best in your future endeavors.
Joyce Tomlinson
eBandSearch
Click here to be removed from any future employment offers.
Dear Joe,
I recently saw your resume online and I feel you would be a good candidate for the Marketing Manager position we are offering at eBandSearch. We are a company that combines the powers of the Internet, television, and local events to truly select the top musical artist/group in the country.
Marketing Managers hire, train, and manage a team of 200 - 500 street team members, the eyes and ears of the musician.
We offer our Marketing Managers the following:
- Highly competitive salary
- Bonus plan that can add 25% or more to Base Salary
- Paid Vacation
- Expense Account
- Medical, Dental, and Vision plan
- Tuition re-imbursement
- Rapid Fast Track Advancement Program
Joe, if you feel the Marketing Manager position is right for you, visit the link below and fill out the online application. If the link does not work in your browser, you may copy and paste the link to go to the webpage.
http://ebandsearch.com/careers/opportunities.cfm?jpID=4965111
Once I receive your online application, I will contact you within one to two business days.
I look forward to hearing from you soon and I wish you the best in your future endeavors.
Joyce Tomlinson
eBandSearch
Click here to be removed from any future employment offers.
Email headers with AdminSolutionsGroup, which sends out nearly identical emails, show there is a connection with www.kasambacareers.com, which is also accused and suspected of being a scam data miner. The only information that is publicly available is from the registrar for their website that shows "Vanthom Designs" as the owner of the website, which was registered on November 14, 2006, and uses an anonymous registration. The ebandsearch.com registration is a private registration, so they've disguised the name and contact information for the true owners / operators.
I got hooked into this one big time. I received the email from joyce tomlinson yesterday afternoon, went to the site, entered my info & also told them I'm interested in higher education opportunities. I declined to get more information from each individual school. Ultimately, there was no clear conclusion, so I just closed the entire browser window.
I feel so stupid now. Anything I can do to help out, please let me know. If you have any suggestions on how to proactively defeat any potential attempts on their part, please let me know - I would greatly appreciate it.
CRF responds: Yes, write to these agencies:
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