I was redirected from a jobs.com advertisement for an Animal Hospital Receptionist position to directemploymentnow.com to apply. The job promised great pay and benefits and I was pretty excited. They asked for a few pieces of information including email address, full name, address, and phone number.
Next thing I know it is telling me that I have to receive a phone call to continue applying. The phone call consisted of some verification of information, and then wahla a sales pitch about going back to school. Even after I informed them that I could never afford it right now, they continued. I was then told I needed to wait for an email that I would receive within 24 hours.
I received the email and was again redirected to the website to login, then verify the information again. I was starting to get suspicious and looked all over online but couldn't find anything directly related to directemploymentnow.com. During this investigation I went back to simplyhired.com (where I originally started at) and searched for the same position only to find the same generic job ad listed all over the country.
I looked on the website of directemploymentnow.com for a contact number but was unable to find one so I just called the one where they previously called me from. I talked to a representative who could only say that "they represent thousands of companies and were not a scam."
Then I got the bright idea to call all the area animal hospitals and see if there was actually any openings. NONE of them had any idea about any job opening so I called the company back. I then informed the lady "L" of what I felt was happening. She explained her job was just to verify information to sign up and she had no idea about any of what I was saying.
I then informed her that I felt she was good hearted and if she really was she would quit because her job is perpetuating a huge scam. I told her everything and she insisted she would be questioning her manager about it all. Who knows if she was really serious or not?
The website directemploymentnow.com is a SCAM. Do NOT give them any information nor tolerate their fake interest in finding you a job. Hopefully someone will see this before they give their information.
I also looked through their privacy policy and it is riddled with stuff like we give your information to 3rd parties to contact you about offers etc so don't get sucked into this promise of good paying jobs.
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