Gigats
Reviews and Complaints

I was trying to apply for a job. I was forced to fill out forms to get free stuff, insurance quotes and school information even though I said NO to as ill questions. I had to "choose" an item Could not proceed unless I did so I choose and I still did not get to apply for the job. The screen kept going to the next thing Gigats wanted me to accept. My phone and emails are now blowing up with these things for car insurance, go back to school even when I said NO. I will do. Old school and mail my resume in and HOPE the company reads it. Very sad a company will push themselves on people to take their offers when all they want to do is apply for work. If a person says NO then they should proceed to the job application site not be harassed.

I applied for an online job apparently through Gigats, don't even remember what it was since I had applied for so many. Got a test message to call their number about the job. Ignored it the first time then called the number the second time. From the start of the call the employee named Will talked down to me and just kept pressuring me about school. I told him four times I was not interested but he just did not let up. I hung up on him and he called back, I told him I hung up on him because it was just a high pressure tactic to get people to go back to school. He still forwarded me on to a another person whom kept pressuring me about school and what degrees he could see me in. Just an absolutely ridiculous experience that you could not even hang up on the person.

I answered a job offer via email. Received a call from "Will." He seemed odd in his questions and explained that he would work very closely with me and ensure that I got a job. He said he would be referring me to "Mike" who would question me about educational opportunities and he asked me to be polite to him (very odd). He said that he would be emaiiing me with job applications for several positions after I had completed speaking with "Mike." Mike asked me to verify my acceptance of phone calls from various educational institutions, which I did. I never got any emails but I did get a all from a university representative. I explained that she had obtained my number via a job scam from Gigat and she said that she would remove my record from her database of numbers.

I applied for a local job through Clear Fit. Shortly afterwards I started getting emails from Clear Fit with job offers. I thought the hourly wage seemed high but I applied for a position and was directed to Gigats.com. I was told to set up a phone interview. I received numerous texts the day of the phone interview. When I called I got a recording, once I spoke a person came on the line. He called himself Will. I asked about the company and he could not give me a straight answer. I realized then it was a scam. I researched Gigats on line to find others had the same experience. This company does NOT have job opportunities. I called him back and asked to be removed from there Database. He said to go on line and unsubscribe, which I cannot do since I don't get emails directly from Gigats. I informed him I would be reporting his company to Consumer Reports & FBI and hung up. He immediately called me back and acted like we must have got cut off and wanted to continue the interview. Beware ! [protected] and [protected] beware of these phone numbers. This is a scam !

I was filling out an online job application for an open position in my local area (which was supposedly being submitted to the Act-1 Employment Agency, and Gigats hijacked and intercepted my online submittal. Masquerading as Act-1, the online tool prompted me to enter a phone interview time to supposedly pre-qualify me for the position. I then called that phone number at the scheduled time, and spoke with "Will" who kept repeating himself and was pushing for me to commit to furthering my education. He refused to discuss the actual job that I had just applied for and kept saying an email would be sent to me with all the information I needed. I began to suspect he might not even be a live person, might have been a well-programmed IVR voice response system recording. He kept me on the phone for 20 minutes and never discussed the job, never asked me questions to "prequalify" me for the job, just kept pushing for a commitment to advance my education. Now I'm worried that I will be baraged with junk emails and phone text messages trying to sell me on an educational institution. I don't even know if the Act-1 Employment agency ever actually received my application!

Gigats.com is a TOTAL SCAM! I went online to a job fair website and gigats.com commandeered my application process. In the middle of the application process I was halted by a message instructing me to call [protected]. After 45 minutes of taking down my information, the representative refused to give me her name and direct phone number and swore she would send it to me in an email along with the direct link to the job I was applying for. She asked me to hold on while she connected me to her “supervisor” who turned out to be someone trying to get me to sign up for colleges when I specifically told the rep I was not interested in talking to college recruiters! I called them back THREE TIMES! The representative claimed she couldn’t help me without the original interviewers name and phone number… WHICH SHE NEVER SENT ME IN THE FIRST PLACE! She continued for 10 minutes her semantics and kept me in a perpetual loop of nonsense that got me nowhere! GIGATS.COM IS A SCAM; DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME!

Spent over an hour online filling out and applying for a job through Gigats.com, only to be told I must call a phone number to verify the info. I then waited nearly 30 minutes to speak to someone on the phone who was "unable" to locate my telephone number or info I already spent an hour providing. I was told to redo my information and call back again after! I don't even know if they bothered to accept my application for the job I applied for! I will now apply for that position in person on my own without this unprofessional nonsense. Thank you Gigats.com for wasting a total of 2 hours of my life!

I signed up with these fools thinking it was a legit service based on word of mouth from a friend of mine looking for a job as well. After the 3rd or 4th application I filled out on separate websites, I realized that their system wasn't as useful as they claimed. I was then given a job of the day from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and was like...wait...what? It took me to a site where you were supposed to pay a subscription fee to be able to access job postings and apply for them. After that I unsubcribed to every single site that I had given my info to through gigats.com. They also have a university calling me up about taking classes which I'm actually interested in, but I can't afford to do so without a job. Avoid at all costs if you're really looking for a job. Its a waste of time.

This company really preys on people who are looking for a job! They have listings and when you respond, the purport to set up a phone interview for that job... but it's really just a sales pitch for their own services and for questionable pitches about "furthering your education." When you say you aren't interested, their responses are designed to make you feel worthless or lazy. I have more than adequate education for the position I had applied for. Our "interview" had absolutely nothing to do with that position. It was all a bogus way to get additional personal information from me.

I was actually updating my profile on Manta and viewed the Jobs Listings tab they have listed under "Resources". When I selected the link to a job posting I was interested in applying for I was directed to what appeared to be an application however, when I tried to download my resume, it wouldn't accept it due to incorrect format and indicated that it had to be formatted as a .doc, .docx, pdf, tiff, ...etc file to be accepted. I tried to download my resume in .doc & .pdf formats and I just kept getting the same download error message...that was after I had already filled out the majority of the "online application"..Now this morning, I receive a text message from 560-30 that read: "(gigats): Hi Dell, call me about the Administrative Assistan (left off the t at the end) Job you have applied for [protected] (txt STOP to cancel)"
After I sent reply to STOP I received this response from 56030: "Career Network Job Alert: You have unsubscribed and will no longer receive msgs. For more info call [protected], msg&data rates apply, replay STOP to cancel"
Upon further research of the 560-30 sms number that the text came from, I found that its a scam to silicate college/trade school enrollments by hijacking my information when I tried to apply for a bogus job. I found 20 complaints for the exact same scenario on the SMS Watchdog website which helps identify senders of unsolicited text messages.

On Friday, 6/28/13 at 11:49 a.m. - I was attempting to apply for a job with Molina Healthcare via the web. The site lead me to gigates.com (it appears my job application was hijacked only I did not know it then) where it stated that I was not applying for a job but was signing up for a job search engine and that afterwards I could apply for that job. (the gigats site presented itself like monster board or some such similar web search engine) I had problems with the site application. It would not accept my address. About 20 minutes later – I received a text to call a 1-888 phone number concerning my job application. ( I believe it was [protected]) and a male voice who said his name was Doug answered. He already knew my name before I even talked to him. I told him I just wished to apply for a job with Molina Health care and that the application page was not accepting my address so I could go no further. Mr. Doug stated that Gigats was authorized to do job screening for Molina HealthCare and various others. He then asked if I have time to talk to him for 30 minutes or more. I asked him if he was trying to sell me something because I had no money to buy anything. He stated he was not trying to sell me anything. He asked personal and embarrassing questions about my previous job history and then asked if I thought education was important and stated that furthering my education was the best thing I could do towards getting a better job.He then asked that if I had all my financial issues resolved would I continue my education. I told him only if I did not have to pay – “out of pocket’ for any part of it. At this point it I felt that he was attempting to twist and manipulate my words to some desired end. He then asked if I wanted to start my own career and then twice for some sort of 3 part commitment towards reviewing the email he was going to send me about jobs and job educators and that he would call me back. His tone of voice was not assertive but more aggressive and I felt like I just talked to someone who was trying to get me to enter a financial obligation I did not wish for. (All I did desired to do was to fill out the job application for Molina Healthcare.) He was telling me that he’ll turn my information over to job educators and that I needed more school. ( I could not afford this and knew that even with a Pell Grant would not cover all the cost) So he lied to me twice –The first time when he stated Gigats was authorized to do job screening for Molina Healthcare. I contacted the HR division of Molina Health Care(Monica – [protected]) on 3/2/13 at 10:30 a.m. and she stated that Gigats was not authorized to do job screening for them. And the second time was that – indeed – he was attempting to get me to make a contract commitment towards some sort of private job training school. According to the Better Business Bureau – their business category is job listings and online education and advisory – he finally stated he would send me a link where I could get access to the application and that he would forward my information to multiple job listings and job educators. I felt strongly he was talking at me in an aggressive manner and I had no time to process this type of hustle during his rant towards me. I did not wish for multiple job listings and I specifically stated I did not wish to make any financial commitment towards anything – and certainly not online education or job training. Also – the information He did send me was substandard – after telling him I can only work in Long Beach, Ca. or the surrounding areas and that I did not drive. I received email from jobs in Pittsburg and Philadelphia. I suspect Doug may be working sales on the phone only but his representation of what Gigats Inc. states is not what its policy states under its posted terms and conditions of use. Nowhere does it say that Gigats is authorized to do job screening and no where does it say that a customer using Gigates should be exposed to unnecessary pressure to enter into a legal and binding contract for any sort of job training or online education. Contrary to what the popular belief – jobs are still hard to come by and I can only emphasize that this type of hustling is deeply aggravating and wish that this issue be addressed immediately as it appears Doug lied twice by not being authorized to do job screening for Molina Healthcare and again by stating he was not trying to sell me something when indeed he was attempting to get me financially involved with online education as evidenced by the aggressive nature of his conversation with me and the business category Gigats is listed for - online education. If this is the kind of manipulative practices and substandard behavior that Gigats Inc. uses in the training of its employees, like Doug, to use for obtaining money – then I believe that such practices should come to the attention of the Better Business Bureau, Consumer Affairs and a host of other responsible elected officials who are able to put a stop to the abuse via shady business practices to consumers. It appears I am not alone in being exposed to this type of abuse – (please check out www.complaintsboard.com, scamandfraudalerts.blogspot.com/201..., www.mywot.com/en/forum/8004-gigats-...and type in gigats in the search) Shame on Mr. Alec Di Franwi for employing such shady business practices. I did try to contact Gigats.com on their contact us form but receive - Message not sent. You have invalid information. Please check form and resubmit.- repeatedly.

While applying for a job on an online job posting site, my application was hijacked by Gigats.com and was told I had to speak to a representative in person in order for them to get additional information for my application. I was told by "Kenneth" that he was able to submit only one applicant per day to the company advertising for this position, only the best applicant for the job would be referred by him. Between this (red flag already) BS speech, he kept asking me if I wanted to continue my education or start my own business. No, I just want to apply for this job I told him. I continued to get the hard sell for school, etc. In the end (after lots of May God Bless you's from Kenneth) and an assurance he'd send my referral in for the job, he told me he'd email me more information about this job. All I ever got was my phone blown up with calls trying to pressure me into enrolling me in college and no job referral. The entire thing was B.S. I'm not sure if my application or resume ever made it to the employer. Lies, lies and more lies. They should be put out of business!