JDC Marketing, MCM Promotions, Next Phase Promotions, Robinson Execitive Group, Access Marketing Concepts, 4D Marketing & Associates, Pinnacle, ect are all scams.in fact at least four of them are run by the same person. A perky little guy with honest an honest smile, ice blue eyes and stylishly spikey black hair named Paul. He's young, twenty two and supposedly making $100,000 a year managing his office, which does marketing for sports teams like The Detroit Tigers and is a Fortune 500 Company.
When called for an interview I was naturally excited. When I went I noticed that there were two company names on the plaque outside the office - none of which were the company I was contacted by, namely Access Marketing Concepts.
Inside the office there were larger signs on the wall for Pinnacle and JDC Marketing. I had done some research before going and was going to give them the benefit of the doubt. I should have taken the hint when I looked at their website and it took me in circles, never once taking me to a page that actually stated something other than circumlocutus garbage about working together with people to make money.
Unfortunatley I wasn't smart enough to not give them my social security number. Since then I've been waiting for them to use my identity. So far nothing has happened. But we'll see. That may be because my contact was under my mom's married name (most credit cards ask for mother's maiden name) and because of my reaction during the "interview". I should have asked for my application back before I left. God I feel stupid!
Another guy came in to fill out an app and asked me what company I was there to interview with and when I told him he said he thinks it is a scam and wasn't going to put down his soc. #. The other thing that was off was the fact that there were two plastic mail holders on the wall with the name Paul on it. Weird.
The guy made me wait forever before the interview, and made it seem like he and his young hip secretary were really cool. They even had a tv in the lobby. Oh boy. I sat down with Paul of the blue eyes and began spouting off all this crap about making money and setting your own hours and how I would be managing a new office they were opening up.
When he told me he wanted me to come back to go out in the field for a day it was then that I knew that I had ran into the very same scam artists that others on this website had. He saw the look on my face and wrapped up the interview very quickly, stating he would contact me with info on where to meet and I left, feeling like a tool. Not once did he ask me anything about myself, my skills, my job experience, nothing. It wasn't an interview, it was a sales pitch.
The next week I was contacted by two more "marketing" companies with openings in "management". And guess what, after setting up appointments for interviews I saw that both companies were out of the same office in Aurburn Hills, not only that but I was to meet with Paul! One of which said it represented sports companies such as the Red Wings and The Tigers.
Needless to say, I didn't go. I wasn't about to sit through that crap again. I didn't call him back, because I read that others were conned into going out into the field, and that they were carted around all day, even after requesting to be taken home because the manager had business to attend to. No thank you. I wasn't about to get into that nonesense.
The truth of the matter is, the moment anyone gives you a vague comment on what your position will be or what their company actually does, you need to get the hell out of there. Be careful and listen to what they say, because they are just spouting off a rehersed line of BS. There isn't a lick of actual information in any of their speaches, save for the fact that you go out and work at booths and they get the money.
Not only that but they go out of their way to make you believe what they say. He had practiced - he looked me straight in the eye the whole time with an honest smile on his face. They try to appeal to kids right out of college who want to get their foot in the door with a company, kids who want a cool hip work environment with laid back, fun managers, and make a huge amount of money. Who doesn't hate their job and want more money? But be realistic. If they don't come right out and tell you what they sell, or what your job duties will be, they are full of it.
I'm actually suspicious of the secretary, Amanda, as well, because she sat there counting checks people had written out, all for fifty eight bucks (I only know this because when I signed in at her desk they were sitting right there). I'm sure if I had fallen for Paul's baby blues that I would have written him a check as well. No thank you.
The minute someone asks me to pay to work for them I leave, and that's that. It's so sad that people would take advantage of others, especially in an area so hard hit with unemployment. But that's where the rats go, isn't it? They smell the desperation and fear and run to it with greed shining in their eyes, knowing that desperate people will do just about anything to make money, especially when there are no jobs to be had here in Michigan.
I've learned my lesson, I'm not putting my social security number on anything unless I'm 100% certain that the company is legit, not only that but if it is a real company at all.
Beware fellow job seekers, there are scam artists in these here hills.
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