Comments on: Credit Check Job Scam: Genco Advertising

By: Brainweevil

Brainweevil — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:46:45 +0000

This result may not be much to their liking. Probably best for the common good, though.

By: Greg Bulmash

Greg Bulmash — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:09:57 +0000

But now they have a prominent link that says "credit check job scam" along with their name pop up as the second result.

By: Brainweevil

Brainweevil — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:22:27 +0000

Well. Now that you've posted this, they have three google results. Good job, sir!

By: J

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:27:28 +0000

When I went to their site it seemed fishy -it's generic looking and features google adsense ads on the bottom. What legit advertising company does that? Anyway, thanks for confirming my thoughts on the shadiness of the site.

By: Sean Dski

Sean Dski — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:24:03 +0000

Nice Catches Everyone! I too flagged that post to Craigslist minutes after seeing it and it appears to be gone now.

The typos alone were enough to make me LOL out loud. ) There's a picture of what appears to be....Amsterdam? on their home page alongside some ominous...eastern sounding copy:

"This is company website for... people for to work in a marketing apartment...."

Bwah! hahahaha!

By: Linh Tran

Linh Tran — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:48:46 +0000

Thank you very much for doing all this. I thought it was fishy at first sight as well, so I went on bbb.org to check them out, and google them to find their addresses, but of course nothing came up. I figured out it was a scam right away after thinking, "every page is basically the same, very simple, and there was absolutely no description for any job listed there. Of course the credit check is the spoiler, like you mentioned first!

Good job on the domain check and critical thinking. I should have thought of that too!!!

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:39:58 +0000

Thank you so much for posting this! I however did apply but emailed and said I did not feel comfortable with sending in credit info over the internet. I received a reply for "Joshua" and he told me he would flag it through for me. A few hours later I just had a bad feeling about the whole thing and found this article. I knew I was making a mistake and this just proves if soemthing is too good to be true, it probably is!

I flagged the ad and made a complaint with the Internet Crime Defraud Center. I agree with the above poster. There are so many desperate people out here looking for a job that they will fall into this trap.

From here on out, I will be researhing any company that is not known to me very thoroughly before I apply!

By: Starpower Domains

Starpower Domains — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:23:21 +0000

You know whats irritating is that with the economy the way it is, people are going to be really desperate and they'll go to any length to secure something.

you gotta admit, that it was a good set up and they may see some profit unless we FLAG!!

By: Mia

Mia — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:10:29 +0000

So glad I googled this.... looked quite fishy to me too. Good luck to all of you on your job search!

By: Shawnie

Shawnie — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:30:49 +0000

Thank you for this advice, I was about to apply!!!

By: Deena

Deena — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:44:25 +0000

I saw their posting on Craigslist too and found their website kinda fishy so decided to google them and found you cause of that. I'm glad I read what you said before I started filling in their application form. It really stinks that they would do something like this.

By: Marcin

Marcin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:33:45 +0000

Hmmm, yeah, their pitch struck me as more than a little odd. The credit check, the shrill tone, the incredibly annoying application form... all odd. Add on top of that the fact that they don't actually list any position details --- skills, experience, anything, and it gets odder still. The kicker for me was the fact that they have multiple typos in their craigslist posting, which to me is unacceptable for a web advertising firm.

By: Ron Schott

Ron Schott — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:28:51 +0000

I just saw this posting and thought things seemed a little fishy on their site. Typos, no physical address at all. Redirects to the homepage from basically every link.

Googled and found your site. Glad someone else saw through this as well.

-Ron