Posts Tagged ‘Scams’

An email scam you may be familiar with

Posted on March 8th, 2010 by by carl

Today I received an email from a job searcher asking me about an email he’d received from an oil company that was indicating that they were interested to interview him and he wasn’t sure what to do. It was a bit difficult to make out exactly what the person was asking for because English wasn’t [...]

Popular job search and career scams

Posted on February 16th, 2010 by by carl

If you surf the Internet enough, you’ve undoubtedly run into numerous products and services making various claims regarding how they will improve your job search and career. In the old days before the Internet, these scams and crummy products and services would have been advertised in the newspapers but like the Nigerian email scam, the [...]

Bogus career colleges and other meaningless certifications

Posted on January 20th, 2010 by by carl

I just read an online newspaper article that referred to how the area I live in will start cracking down on fake career colleges that charge students thousands of dollars and then deliver phony and in some cases virtually non-existent educations. The article gave an instance where the newspaper who conducted the investigation had several [...]