Lionheart Assurance Solutions, AKA Lionheart Group, AKA pretty much anything "Lionheart" that shows up in your email inbox is your typical MLM job scamming bottom-feeder bunch of hucksters.
Always be wary of anyone that sends you an email about a job that has little to do with your resume. These "opportunities" are anything from a means to fleece you of your money, to blatantly illegal money-laundering schemes.in the case of Lionheart, we are definitely dealing with the former.
Lionheart Assurance Solutions is an MLM job scammer that preys upon those seeking real employment through various online job-seeking sites, such as Monster or Careerbuilder, etc. They scrape the resumes and blast emails to anyone looking for a job, hoping a sucker will fall for their pitch. The email will tout some generic title, such as "sales professional", or "marketing coordinator", but of course the accurate job description would be "sucker".
The email will go on about an interview, which will actually be a boiler-room cattle call where you and everyone else gullible enough to believe the email will show up and sit through an hour-long sales pitch from a less-than-reputable individual. This individual will show up 15 minutes late. During this time, you and the other victims are being carefully watched to see who is saying what. This is done to pick out "likely suckers" and to disregard those who are obviously too smart to fall for the pitch. Once the showman arrives, he/she will launch into a rather preachy monologue about security and fraud prevention. This conman will also be praising Lionheart and the "fabulous" opportunities for unlimited wealth. You'll hear earnings potentials that would normally be found only in fortune 500 companies, and only possible for executive officers.
After hearing this extended blather about how astronomically rich you can become by "getting in on this amazing opportunity", you'll get the squeeze. Only people that IMMEDIATELY pay up "X" amount of money can go on to the "exclusive" second part of the interview. OOOOOoooo! Exciting! The amount you pay will be anywhere from $100-300, depending upon how gullible the crowd is, and how greedy the company representative/conman is.
First rule of job seeking: YOU NEVER PAY FOR A JOB! As soon as an "opportunity" asks for a credit card number, you bail. It's not a job. It's a scam. Lionheart is no exception.
Of course the old method to check legitimacy still works... Somewhat. Performing a search for "company name" followed by the word "scam" will normally show you very quickly if a particular opportunity is really a job offer. Lionheart iscunning though. They have seeded the web with dozens of fake web sites and spam sites to bury actual scam search results on their business. The first ten results will be sites about "scam prevention kits" or "fraud prevention". Ironic! This tactic is becoming more common as a means to conceal evidence of fraud and scams on the Internet. They attempt to bury real results underneath an avalanche of false reports and sites.
Thankfully, we all know to check usacomplaints. Coms!: D Hopefully, Google will adjust their algorithms soon and weed out these scammer's fake results.
There are real opportunities out there, job hunters. Just remember that real jobs never ask for money from you. Real jobs are one-on-one interviews. Real jobs respond to you directly via email or phone, and match your resume and skills. They don't spam job-seekers with generic emails about "opportunities". Check on the companies, and keep digging if you get a ton of fake sites. Eventually you will get to the truth.
Or just check usacomplaints.com. ;)
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