Radiant Marketing Solutions reviews and complaints

I am really glad that i found this complaint board. I have received a lot of scams similar to this through craigslist. The mail from radiantmarketingsolutions.com that states:

Dear Applicant,

Thank you for your intent on our job offer and we have read your resume and you have qualified for the job at hand. Due to the recent economic troubles, our company now requires all applicants to be in good credit standing before we interview you.You and 3 other candidates have been shortlisted for the job vacancy and will all be scheduled for an interview as soon as possible.

As part of the protocols of our growing company, we have deployed measures to ensure that the company is safe from any liabilities and problems from our employees, which includes getting your credit score checked.

In lieu to that, we have arranged a special free service for our applicants to get their credit checked with the following company:

Free Credit Check here

Once you have your credit check in place please send me an email confirmation as soon as possible and inform me about your credit score standing and then we will confirm your interview schedule. During the interview you will be asked to present the soft copy of your credit standing for company documentation and proof.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

All the best,

John Mckenzie

HR Manager

Please be careful when responding to ANY add on Craigslist. Radiant Marketing Solutions is now posting adds on Craigslist under multi cities using valid company names (without their consent of course). There is a job add in Cleveland for an Admin/Exec Assistant II (cleveland) listing the company as Pinnacle Roofing. (I called Pinnacle in TX & made them aware of this.) This company is not in Cleveland nor have they posted and job opening adds. Furthermore I've sent Craigslist an email about it. It's gotten to the point on Craigslist that 9 out of 10 job postings are scam. I no longer send a resume but send a cover letter requesting a valid phone number/or valid company email address due to the mass volume of scam postings on Craiglist.

I sent a reply letter anyway, knowing this was a scam. My Radiant Marketing Solutions contact was... well, you can see from the letter.

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It's a good thing that I keep this hotmail account as a dummy in the event that I need to test job postings that are a scam, or at least a bait-and-switch. Congratulations, on justifying and validating my skepticism that anybody who offers a job posting in my area is likely trying to rip me off in some way. The delay in receiving this e-mail helps to assure me that it's not a robot mailer, or if it is at least that a human might have to review things before sending. I almost expect that the response to this e-mail will be yet another invitation to get me "free credit check here" before I could get an interview scheduled. But while you're being dishonest you could at least take the slightest care to be accurate with this little con you're pulling.

First, this is not the way a legitimate company would do business -- even companies that have you pay for your background checks will still collect the fee from you and use their contracted agency to handle the matter. No one who needs background checks on applicants would take it on faith that said applicant commissioned a proper one for themselves, after all. Too much potential for fraud. That you have not provided any information on your own fake business, or the name of the company that you're expecting me to blindly click a link, all you do is make me and others like me more suspicious of you. After all, we've got Careerbuilder and Monster and Hotjobs and Job.com to give us all those little helpful articles such as "If somebody doesn't tell you anything about themselves, you should be wary." Oh, and any company that does background checks does them after an interview. Good luck scamming all the idiots who likely don't even have anything to steal -- you're really aiming for the fences with this scam. Idiots.

Second, don't send a form letter if you don't see an attachment. I knew right away that this was a complete fake because the letter doesn't refer to me by name. And that there is any mention of reading my resume when I didn't even post a resume... ridiculous. I wonder how many potential marks you end up losing because putting 2 seconds of effort into your little cheat would be too difficult for you.

Third, check your work, people. Why is a "Jane Holdaway" doing sending out a letter from "John McKenzie" when anyone with two functional brain cells knows that you match the e-mail name to the name on the letter. I've worked in administrative positions before and even when you send an e-mail with another person's name you make sure you do it from a generic account. Look at the bold-faced scam I received below; it at least attempts to do the slightest bit of due diligence by not trying to tip me off with a discrepancy in the listed names of the contact.

Fourth, I have no idea who you are but this is a recession and you're preying on the most desperate people who actually have the least amount of money to give you, if money is your intent. The sad thing is that if you would just be honest, get yourself some Facebook friends, and start a campaign in which you get many thousands of people to all willingly, legally, and totally legitimately provide you with $1 dollar each, you'd probably be able to collect enough money to do something with.

And if that link you wanted me to click is about getting my computer information or trying to hijack my system with spyware, all you'll find is a hard drive taken up by free music I downloaded at www.last.fm. I do all my sensitive business (things involving my SSN or my bank account number) by paper. It's a dying system, but then again it's much more secure than the web.

Anyway, I'm certain that you haven't read this e-mail, but if you have, I hope that this has been somewhat enlightening. I honestly don't know if I'm more perturbed at the fact that you tried to dupe me or that the quality of the con is so poor that I don't even feel right calling it a con. Whatever it is you do just feel good knowing that the utter lack of marketable skills, and the desire not to work an honest day in life, means that you and your ilk are not truly competing in the U.S. job market and so all those innocent people you're hoping to take advantage of will at least have a better chance to gain or keep employment. Then they'll be in a better position for you to try to cheat them, because the none of these people have ever met you or done anything to particularly wrong you, but damned if that doesn't mean that they have to feel some sense of loss to make you feel fulfilled or avenged or self-confident or whatever reason you tell yourself that you need to do this so you can sleep at night.

Have a nice day. Never e-mail me again.

-- No name. Screw you.

I have complete my credit card report. I submit my complete information to them...and NOW I have a job because of them..a really really great job..
Thanks a lot Radiant...
Thanks Amy..=)

Wel here it is for Chico California Craigslist from the same Amy but I always check the company name before I bother to download any crap here is the one she sent me. By the way you can report these scams. This place will tell you other scams listed and they report them to the FBIs FRAUD UNIT. They gave me the info to contact my local FBI fraud/scam unit. I really expected to get the ole eye ball roll but they are very supportive and greatful for all that you turn in cause it helps them to track them down and bust those bad puppies...

From: "Jane Holdaway" Add sender to Contacts
Dear Applicant,

We have received your application for our administrative job offer here at Radiant Marketing Solutions. We want to inform you that we are now requiring all applicants to download a standard interview form located here in order to save time and setup schedule for your interview and ask basic questions to hasten the job application process.

We have created this system in order to weed out fake applicants and people who are not serious in our job offer. Kindly download the interview form here to begin your application process.

Thank you and have a great day!

Amy Johansson
Radiant Marketing Solutions Group.

They also run under a Temp Job Service Spherion and asked me to do the same thing I believe it is becasue there are alot of companies that pay people for each person that goes to that sight in this case gets the credit report off their sight through this Amys link. Well she got peeved and I recieved no response when I told her I had my brother pull mine for free at his office teee hee of coarse I was bull Shllllllng ya know some times it is just more fun to screw with these people.

i've just been scammed! i replied to the email and sent them my score! has anyone had any identity theft from these scams? what should i do at this point...? i just sent the email a few minutes ago and am worried about what could happen in the next few weeks, and am wondering what steps i should take from here

I received the exact email from Sally Johnston as well! This is insane. I honestly cannot believe someone is out there trying to steal identities from people who have been effected greatly by the current economic conditions. What a sad world...

Thank you to all who posted ! Just got this...look up the e-mail and got here...thanks again!

Sally Johnston [hr@radiantmarketingsolutions.com]

Dear Applicant,

Thank you for sending us your job application we appreciate your time and effort, unfortunately the position that you have been applying for has been filled up. However, since you have taken the effort to submit your application, we are giving you a part-time opportunity available to be part of our website testing team.

Our website testers assess our websites and check how they are performing and give us reviews, opinions and criticisms to continually improve our site etc. We currently employ 40 people in our website testing program for free.This opportunity won’t make you rich, but it will definitely help pay the bills and get you some extra shopping money easily.

In order to get more information on how to earn through website testing, just go to:

website-testers.com

All the best

Charlie Rooney

P.S.

Just to remind you, It’s absolutely free to sign up. :)

Thank you all for having their ads removed. I applied for the position from the Tampa Bay, FL area craigslist. I didn't get the reply you all got (asking for your credit info), as I guess the ad had been removed.

However, I just received (in my Spam folder) THIS response - from Sally Johnson, HR @ radiantsolutions.com, but the email was signed by Charlie Rooney:

Dear Applicant,

Thank you for sending us your job application we appreciate your time and effort, unfortunately the position that you have been applying for has been filled up. However, since you have taken the effort to submit your application, we are giving you a part-time opportunity available to be part of our website testing team.

Our website testers assess our websites and check how they are performing and give us reviews, opinions and criticisms to continually improve our site etc. We currently employ 40 people in our website testing program for free.This opportunity won’t make you rich, but it will definitely help pay the bills and get you some extra shopping money easily.

In order to get more information on how to earn through website testing, just go to:

website-testers.com

All the best

Charlie Rooney

P.S.

Just to remind you, It’s absolutely free to sign up. :)

website-testers.com

I always Google these, and found this blog. THANK YOU! I'm going to reply back that they've been 'discovered' to be a fraudulent company and I have no desire to be affiliated with them.

So to anyone else who received this email (now claiming the job has been filled), BEWARE! It's always a red flag to me when I receive an emai from one person, yet it's signed by someone else. And I don't even bother when any email from a potential employer is full of bad English usage (or a 'Gmail address).

Nita Nash

This is tooo funny! This is the second time I have received this letter! I have been looking for jobs by any means in hopes to move on from my current position. However, unlike the first letter, this one seems more valid! I suppose one heads up is that they asked about my credit status before an interview. No company does that! They always do a back ground check after the interview. I'm glad I double checked the email address! Thanks!