The Chronicle of Higher Education review: Fake job website SCAM 71

Oh man, this is crazy. I just talked to these people today. The guy was so nice and continued to talk about how he was in the navy and cracking jokes. They sent me a text asking me to call them. I called and they said they needed to verify my information. He asked about my education and said that was the most important thing!
I cannot believe people actually do this, much less get away with it! How are they still in business after 10 years?!
Im going have to proceed with extensive research. I cannot let these people get off free. Perhaps I should call and give them what for!
Why is the government letting them get away with this? This is awful!
Knowing as bad as the economy is, preying on people who are unemployed, only bringing in employment to secretly fraud others!

I recieved a txt asking me to call them, i did and answered all thier questions. but the info i provided does not seem harmfull.or am i wrong, educate me please.

I got a txt asking me to call them, so I did so. I answered all thier questions, but it doesnt seem like the info I provided is harmfull. Please inlighten me.

This place doesnt even have a real business license or phone number. I called back the verification specialist [censor] and she hung up the phone on me after I asked "why won't the site let me delete my resume?" She kept telling me to email them, but when I asked about the phone number she said to just email. She couldnt even transfer me to someone else. I bet these are just people working at home to get a quick buck. Definitely a scam, if they dont have legitimate jobs with names. I feel stupid for falling into that same trap, hopeless and jobless. Thanks to this experience, I've learned never to trust these sly sites. They are just trying to adverstise for education. No real jobs. Nothing. They are supposedly located in Florida, but the BBB states they are in Georgia. Some other people say they are on the east coast. Wherever this fake [censor] business is, DONT TRUST IT!

I applied for an IT/Customer Service job through Monster.com yesterday and received a text message on my cell phone to call them. I called this morning and heard voice message stating it was the Career Network. They don't open until 9am EST so I'm fortunate not to speak with anyone. The Career Network spoke mostly about encouraging people to receive a college degree so I thought something wasn't right about it. I came to Google search the "Career Network" and found MANY MANY websites with complaints of them being a SCAM. I won't call that number back now no matter how desperate I am for a job and I will report this to Monster.com. Let them investigate it.

Thank you all for posting on here reference the Career Network. Although the complaints are aged, I still don't trust a Network that have numerous complaints.

Someone ought to arrange a boycott or some kind of negative publicity for any colleges advertising through this company or any like it. This kind of "advertising" is despicable and any legitimate business that employs it ought to have that fact disseminated to any potential clients.

Numerous emails daily from Career-Network. Yahoo HotJobs is just as guilty for allowing the IP addresses from these predatory companies to continue to access their servers to obtain our personal information.

Wow, I was just on my way to thier site to "confirm my availablity for the position" when this site caught my eye. Thank you all so much for posting. I was so hopeful when I recieved an email from Career-Network. What a dissapointment. Thanks everyone.

I was skeptical about this information provided on this site and decided to give career networks a call anyways. I called and the computer message asked me to hold for someone from career tract. They pulled up the position that i applied for with my phone number and asked me something about going to school. When i informed them that I had my degree the conversation was over and they were not really into answering any of my questions about the job. They just simply kept stating that someone may call me and that my application was sent off to someone.

Im sorry to say but I live here in Arlington, TX and I did a prescreen interview with career network over the phone and they scheduled me for an in person on site interview for a Wells Fargo in Ft Worth, TX and I am happy to say I am now working, but they are enrolled in an affiliate program and do forward your number to online colleges thats how they get paid since their website is free

I FEEL SO STUPID!I SUBMITTED MY INFO TO THE CAREER NETWORK SITE AND THEY CALLED ME TODAY !

~SIMONE

well i fell into the trap! :(

i just recieved an email from them this morning and decided to research them before giving htem my info. they contacted me through careerbuilder.com i posted my resume there and have not gotten o0ne good job lead everything has been a scam. luckily i took the time to research any company that contacted me. actually i did get one good job lead from a legit company liberty mutual. other than that nothing only ppl wanting me to work for their company out of the country. emails with vague info like no company name. i haveeven gotten emails from people then would get the exact same email from someone else with a different company name, saying the exact same thing. i just pulled my resume from them this morning. good luck to you all i will be contacting the fcc about this company because i got two emails from them from two different people offering a cs job.

Applied for a job on-line. Received an email (said an employer was interested). Email contained link - clicked on the link which gave a phone number to call. Called the number and was told the employer would contact me. Then they asked if I would like them to send me a link for a chance to win $500. HERE WE GO! Link they send is typical on-line advertising - participation required (wanting you to purchase). They are off the hook because you gave them your information and then YOU called THEM. They didn't break the law - they simply misled you. No harm done, right? But you are still unemployed, correct?

I applied for several legit. jobs today and out of the blue I received a text from this CareerNetWork...it's frightening because they even have the correct spelling of my name! I'm just wondering how they were able to access any of my info. from these legit apps.!

I also received a job opportunity from these scammers. Also another from Go Staffs which is affiliated with them. Anyone that emails you or texts you rather than call and says I got your resume off the internet is a bogus company. Thank God a red flag went up and I researched these two companies b4 giving them any info. There are alot of scammers esp. on Craigslist so be cafeful. Last week I received a text message regarding a job. It was laughable! Who texts's for a job on a Sunday afternoon!

This is NOT a scam. I work there and we DO NOT ask for personal info. We ask if you are a US citizen over 18 and if you plan on furthering your education.

Career network Employee, you are an absolute liar. If you ask for our home address, cell phone, personal E-mail or work E-mail, home phone or any kind of phone, and we don't offer it, you tell us to call back. Just happened to me. That is asking for my personal info, which you did.

Just received an email from a "Cortney Hamilton" from career-network.com's postmaster. I clicked through to the job description on the site and compared it to that in the email - didn't match. Plus, the position was listed as in Cincinnati, OH though the email advised that the position was available in my city of residence. Something smelled fishy, and I'm glad I searched Career Network before I submitted any personal information.

Same "Regional Office" in Orlando, which is a little easier for them to pull where I live, since I live in Central FL.

Checked my yahoo email and got two letters from representatives from Career Network. I'm a skeptic by nature and my BS alarm went off right off the bat so I did some research and it seems this "company" is is hot water. Do not respond to any emails of this kind.

Yup, I made the same mistake early on. I discovered that all they wanna do is sell your name to buying (profit) colleges. (and then most people ask, what's wrong with the profits? Heres a clue) This was a couple of years back, but when I got the call I caught on well fast. I told the lady "If I sign up for a college, will I get the job, since having this job might influence me for education" and of course the reply was she couldn't promise anything. I said yup, your right. It's kind of hard to promise something you dont have. I stop the lady dead in her tracks and she sighed and said your right it's kind of hard... thats when I told her she was taking part in a huge wrongful scam, and only an idiot would take the bait. I then got hung up on.

Anyone who works, or even hears from them falling for there lies (and may I add continues to believe it) is idiot. Point blank. If you dont think what there doing is wrong, your more then an idiot, your a true ### and should be shipped to mexico, where you could "learn" about life a little. (chances are you dont have a clue anyway) If real company did business this way, they would be shutdown. Why they have not is beyond me.

I just got an email from "Jennifer Johson" a well known last name like "Smith" and offered me a job for an Administrative Position. I thought that this was kind of weird because that was not the job title I was applying for on line. So I did this search and found all of this "important information" about Career Networks and all the other scamer names that I have written down for future notices. I think it is so awlful that this type of scamming is still taking place in USA. Americans are stuggleing enough with out having to worry about their personal information being sold. At least someone is making money in our country...even if it is the WRONG person. I feel ashamed that I was taken breifly from this scam, no phone calls or texts like others, at least not yet, but I did fill out general information, did not request any schooling information, maybe that is why I did not recieve any calls or texts yet. I just began this circus of job hunting via the web a few days ago and I will be deleteing my resume and other information online today...I am going to only deal with local companies, in person and then ask for paper version application or what website they deal with inorder to apply to their company. I hope others see this webpage, before it is to late, as I have.
Thanks for all the information it was enlighting... I still believe that their are good employeers out there and lagitament websites out there...we just have to be more careful now a days. Happy job hunting to everyone, GOD BLESS US ALL.

I have received 2 emails from different people from Career Network. I deleted the first one because they contradicted themselves regarding it being a telecommute job but offered travel reimbursement. The one i got today was from "Debra Goodman". I noticed that the email address she sent it to was not mine but managed to get in MY inbox. How does that happen? I researched the site and found this page. Thanks to you all for sharing your experiences.

I unfortunately filled out a psuedo-application after receiving an email from www.career-network.com. Once I filled in their initial application page, asking for my email (which they already had, since I got to their site through a link they emailed me), and my phone number, then a page came up with the information I copied and pasted below. As far as I knew I was applying for the job stated in their email, NOT registering for anything. This is a scam, beware folks. I forwarded the email and the text below to the FCC at spam@uce.gov. I hope that suffices so I won't hear from them again...If there is anything else I can do to prevent them from contacting me further, any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone.

"Thank you for Registering.
Call Now to complete your registration for the Customer Service Position position. You will need to contact one of our Career Service Representatives by calling:
1.888.596.1896
A Career Service Representative will verify your registration, ask a few additional questions and assist in finalizing your registration
You may call immediately!"

One last tip for the masses (then back to my job search!) - I found this in their Terms and Conditions re:opting out of getting any text messages:

" In addition to any fee of which you are notified, your provider's standard messaging rates apply to our confirmation and all subsequent SMS correspondence...You may opt-out and remove your SMS information by sending "STOP", "END", or "QUIT" to the SMS text message you have received...You may also send an email to: textoptout@career-network.com with your wireless number and the words "Stop", "Quit", or "End" in the body to be removed."

This site had a hard time with my last post! Here's the pertinent information again, last try:

"You may also send an email to: textoptout@career-network.com with your wireless number and the words "Stop", "Quit", or "End" in the body to be removed."

You can email them your phone number and the word "stop" in the body of the email to textoptout@career-network.com so they won't text message you.

There are nearly 50% of posts on CL that are geared in this respect, and all it causes is outrage (and you should be). Openly I feel Cl should charge 25 cents a post for jobs, thus they would have someone credit card, and thus could impose fines on fake jobs, easy. Then these crooks wouldn't be so quick to post them if they had to pay money.

they just sent me via text meassage. saying "Hi _ _ _ _, Call me about the entry level warehouse W Job you have Applied for "

Guys, career network does not ask for anymore information than anyone can get about you online, generally. They are only asking for your name, address, phone number and highest education received. Basically, they are asking all general questions that an application would ask. There are no intrusive questions asked. I see no dangers here. Also, as for the proof of this site being a scam: no one has printed anything of importance. Even the very first post does not say anything about what the 'complaint' from Hammond is even about. Just saying something is a scam over and over doesn't necessarily mean it is. How about some concrete, current, information here? I have used career-network in the past, and even spoke to customer service reps from their company that have called to prescreen me for jobs, and there has not ever been an ill-effect from sending them a resume, filling out info, or talking to them on the phone.

If they are doing anything at all, it would be compiling mailing/phone lists. I think you guys are safe!

I just got an e-mail from the Career Network I don't know if it is a scam or not can anyone tell me why they send them stupied e-mails out any way I have been looking for a job for a long time and have not found one yet