This company is quite scam artist. From the two reports I just read it looks like they scam customers which is appauling in its own right. However, you might be more surprised to know the scam they put on people to get them to come and work for free. My Sports Dreams for is a fundraising company that advertised as something completely different from that. They posted ads on craigslist for those seeking employment and the title of the posting said "Sports Writers Needed." Given that I am a journalism major and want to write this naturally peaked my interest. Once I openned the job listing inside it said "its not sports writing but its close." Well let me be the first to tell you there is nothing "close" about it.
I went there for an interview on the train, I took a cab to the office and met the owner of the company who tried to explain how it was a "sports writing" job. He explained that I would be responsible to for talking to people, gathering research and talking to college athletes for their club sports about there team. Those were his exact words. I was excited for this seeing as though they had done a thorough job at explaining to me how things worked (at least I thought). I than returned two days later for a training session with about 5 other people who were there (I thought for the same reason).
This is where the bait and switch began. It turns out this was infact a fundraising company and my "job" where they were not going to pay me for (no salary, just commission) was going to be email, cold call, facebook as many college students who were in club sports or clubs in general to get them to use their service. Once they agreed to use our service than and only than would we make any money out of it and we were to make 10% of what the team paid. They required you to make $7500 in 2 months or they were not going to continue to allow you to work for free. The second ranking member of this company Jordan Kerr, my immediate supervisor, explained to everyone how it worked but conveniently forgot to include the part about not paying for anything like getting to work benefits or anything like that. While I worked there I continued I was encouraged by Jordan with my calling and my attempts to raise money. He also offered all of us his assistance in finding another job elsewhere if this just simply happened not to work out. Well none of those things happened. Not a single team wanted to talk to me, stating that the company I was working for were a bunch of scamming thieves.
This company takes advantage of the unemployment market in this country by convincing kids who don't know any better that this would be a great "sports writing" job they can "make lots of money" and than scams them. I have no idea how this company gets away with breaking just about every labor law in the country. Mostly because the people they employ more often than not don't have the means to be able to bring a suit against them or launch any kind of investigation. I am pretty sure however, that the better business bureau and the Dept. Of labor would love to know what this company is up too. For those of you who are concerned about getting ripped off by My Sports Dreams I'll say this: if this is how they treat people who work for them just imagine how they'll treat you if you decide to go into business with them.
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