Job Not Hunting, Crappy Economy

Whatever happened to Monster.com? It's not friendly. The apply here buttons are gone. Searching for jobs isn't easy either. The list opens up in weird windows. I can't pick multiple categories anymore. No wonder people are drifting away from it. Could be not compatible with Firefox.

Careerbuilder at least, is still usable.

Craigslist is the best in terms of ease of use.

The jobs are paltry right now. Still, my business starts tomorrow as in working for a customer, so see what happens. There's a high level of general scam out there too for job hunters. Must be our wonderful economy. Self employment may be the only option.

It's not going to be a good year, or years. The dollar is turning into toilet paper as the Fed lowers the interest rates. The real estate market keeps on not trucking. Fuel keeps on going way up. Our clueless gummint keeps on putting band-aids over major wounds. Duck and cover, duck and cover......

Job Scam, Ham in a Can, Spam.

Job scammer "upset" that I didn't respond. Well, actually I kinda did. I stuck the email in the blog. On to the latest, freshest, scam.

Over two weeks ago (It was last week, 10/09/2007 to be exact)we tried to contact you after pulling your resume from the 
internet. Our records show that as of this date, we have not been able to set up 
an interview with you. (And you never will) Searching resumes through the major online job boards (Searching as in every public resume)
gives us the ability to increase our productivity because we can select 
applicants that meet our requirements for the positions we have available.

We are currently hiring and believe you are an outstanding match. 
(And every other form of life on the planet that has a public resume on a job board)

If you are still looking for a rewarding position with a financially sound 
company and are interested in learning more about this opportunity, please CLICK 
HERE 

or call 1-888-245-1010.

Sincerely,

Andrew W. King
President and Chief Marketing Officer
Liberty National Life Insurance Company

We would like to keep you updated on exciting job opportunities at Liberty 
National Life Insurance Company; we will continue to alert you when we have 
opening at our local offices. You received this email because you placed your 
resume on an internet job board or responded to one of our job ads. To remove 
your email address from our list, please do not reply to this email. This will 
not remove you from future emails. Instead, please use the link below to process 
your removal requests.

Click here 
(Link deleted)
to unsubscribe from further communication regarding job opportunities at Liberty 
National Life Insurance Company. Please allow two to three business days for the 
removal process of your E-mail address to be complete. Liberty National Life 
Insurance Company, 2001 Third Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35233.


Further note....

Some interesting reading on the Ripoff Report.

Money Laundering or Fake Check Cashing? Some Fresh Job Scam

Ah, some fresh job scam....was starting to feel ignored. Someone wants me to either launder money or cash fake checks, not sure which. Probably the latter. Enjoy. Thinking it's those wonderful dollar choppers from Nigeria.

*(me): Job offer *

We have found your resume at *Monster.com* and would like to suggest you a 
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vacancy. We have studied your resume and are happy to inform you that your skills
completely meet our requirements for this position. (Anyone dumb enough to fall for this)
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This is a part-time position. Your job will be to transfer money between our 
clients. (No, actually to do money laundering or cash fake checks)

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Your schedule will be flexible. You will need to spend on average 1-2 hours er (per)
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This is a work-at-home position. All communication(s)will be online.
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During the trial period you will be paid $1,500 per month. You will also be 
keeping 8 percent commission
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proceed full-time.

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If you are interested in this position, and would like to know more, please 
e-mail me jonathan.globaltradeinvests@gmail.com 

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We will contact you within 2 days

The PC Blues

The poor old computer is starting to go. I have a capacitor in the motherboard that's not holding a charge very well. Takes several bumps with the power button until the POST takes. Hmmm. My Athlon XP processor is probably a technological orphan at this point. So, if I decide to fix this beast, means new motherboard, probably memory and processor at the very least. Not looking forward to it. Maybe it just won't get turned off. 

A Forum Spammer is Hiring?

The "job" offers just keep rolling in. One was an automated call to my cell about plumbing, of course no mention about plumbing in my resume. Hidden number. Called T-Mobile, who said that they sympathized but couldn't do anything about it.

A fresh email, someone wants me to spam forums.

Dear Sucker,
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We have found your resume at Monster.com and would like to suggest you a
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"Internet-manager" vacancy. We have studied your resume and are happy to
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inform you that your skills completely meet our requirements for this position.
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This is a part-time position.*Your task will be the following: *
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- To register on various popular english-speaking web forums
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- To create new topics with the articles specified by our company
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- You will need to create topics on about 50 different web forums per day
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- To search for new web forums using Google, Yahoo!, MSN search engines
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- To send everyday reports by e-mail
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Your schedule will be flexible. You will need to spend on average 2-3 hours
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per day, Monday-Friday. All communication will be online.
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*This job will allow you to:*

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- - Efficiently work at home;
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If you are interested in this position, and would like to know more, please 
e-mail me (webpromote.info@gmail.com)
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We will contact you within 2 days

Yet Another "Opportunity"

Oh joy, someone else is "hiring".

I did a search on Google, "Liberty National Scam". Yep. Scam.

Hi, I saw your resume on the internet and would like to talk to you as soon as
possible. Our company currently has an immediate job opening available.

If you are still seeking a rewarding opportunity with a highly-reputable
company, please give me a call at your earliest convenience at (Local  Number, seems to be private) to
schedule an interview.


Sincerely,

MATTHEW FILZEN
Liberty National

We would like to keep you updated on exciting job opportunities at Liberty
National Life Insurance Company; we will continue to alert you when we have
opening at our local offices. You received this email because you placed your
resume on an internet job board or responded to one of our job ads. To remove
your email address from our list, please do not reply to this email. This will
not remove you from future emails. Instead, please use the link below to process
your removal requests.

Click here 
(Link removed)
to unsubscribe from further communication regarding job opportunities at Liberty
National Life Insurance Company. Please allow two to three business days for the
removal process of your E-mail address to be complete. Liberty National Life
Insurance Company, 2001 Third Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35233.

Just Another "Opportunity"

More job spam. 

==================================================
CareerBuilder: NC Career Oportunity 
==================================================

(My name here.....)

I have reviewed your resume on careerbuilder.com and felt you would be a great candidate for our free Real Estate Investor career opportunity briefing.  Have you ever thought about becoming a Real Estate Investor, but don't have the knowledge, know what type of investing strategy is right for you, how to get started, or where to get the money?  Are you a seasoned Real Estate Investor who wants to take Real Estate Investing to the next level?   If you answered yes to either of these questions, I am inviting you to attend our free Real Estate Investor briefing next Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 at the North Raleigh Hilton, 3415 Wake Forest Rd., Raleigh, NC 27609 from 6:30pm to 8:00pm, in the Dogwood Room.  We are not any of the guru's you see on late night TV.  (Really?) Here is your chance to be mentored by live Real Estate Investors who have become certified multi millionaires (What are these?) their specific stratagies of Real Estate Investing.  If you would like to attend Tuesday night please respond to this e-mail so I can reserve you a seat.  This is a new ground floor opportunity that is being offered in North Carolina.  You will find out why this is the best income opportunity in the United States.  We are only inviting a few select people (Everyone who updated or added a public resume)to attend this briefing, so if you can not make it, please e-mail me so we can fill your seat. This briefing is by invitation only.  Please print this e-mail and bring it with you to confirm your invitation.  We will begin at 6:30pm prompt, so please arrive 15 minutes early.


Mike Salvaggio
New Wealth Investors
E-mail: Invest-Realestate@sbcglobal.net

"RDU is Hiring?"

"Yeah." 

"You gotta be kidding." 

"No, Really." 

Just what is going on at RDU? They are actually hiring people. Last week, it was American looking for baggage apes. Now it is the people who keep things going. Basically the guys who "pump gas", maintenance, and inventory. Also an employment agency for the car rental companies was looking for warm bodies too. Must be a real growth spurt, or somebody lost some contracts.

Things in General

Da Blog

So the counter isn't ....counting. One more shot at it, and it's gone. I'm going to mess with the heading as well. Also the colors aren't what I like. I'm thinking about Google Adsense but not really keen on advertising. If done, it would be a small presence.

Job Hunted?

Explored Apex and environs, was scoping out a drive in job before I drove in. I kept on driving by and then my phone rang. Drug test. Cool. Getting somewhere. Hopefully, employment. Not much coin but at least I'll have withholding. Also waiting on the business license, that should show up soon. Then to get the liability insurance. Part time business, see how it goes, if well, then full time business.

Scam

The Do Not Call list has got to be worthless. Yet another call. Job hunting is also getting kinda horrible. The sleaze balls and con artists have taken to posting jobs on the main search engines. At least on Craigslist, we can flag them, and I do flag them. If it ain't a job, don't bug me. A lot of it is people looking for door to door sales suckers. Ugh. Wouldn't be such an issue, but a lot of crap gets posted and a lot of "employers" are scraping the public resumes. Looking forward to taking mine private.

Poly-Ticks

Hillary still way ahead....Edwards still way behind. Obama in the middle. He's just too, well, perfect. Just doesn't seem to have enough warts. What is he hiding?

Republicans still have no clear front runner unless one counts Guilani, and that only because he raised a ton of money. Mitt Romney still in the news....not good for him, ever since he did the American Vacation thing with a dog in a carrier on top of a station wagon.

My Townhouse

The townhouse is in a state of arrested repair. It's waiting on more income. The back bath is going to need about six hundred dollars total. The chimney chase will probably take a thousand. The lower level floor needs rosin paper, flooring, and two back doors. Insulation as well. The whole thing needs repainting again. The one good thing about the whole mess, is that it can be done piece-meal, a hundred or so bucks at a time. The labor is free. Once done, it goes on the market, and I'm free. At least a year or so. No rush, real estate market still shaking out.

Book Reviews

Sean Williams, The Resurrected Man. Good read, usual sci fi future but written quite well.

Kevin J. Anderson is currently doing the Saga of the Seven Suns. Humans inadvertently start a war when turning gas giants into stars. Goes on from there. Good beach read and well worth borrowing from a library. Latest book in the series is Of Fire and Night.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I've read the book. I've listened to the radio series. I have both the BBC television series and the new movie on DVD. Each different but all well done. I even had his PC game, Starship Titanic. Doesn't work anymore, even my antediluvian W2000Pro is too modern for it, but when it did, it was pretty good. Still, if one gets bored of thumbing a ride among the stars, there is his series about Dirk Gently, a Holistic detective. Not only worthy of borrowing from the library but worthy of purchase from a bookstore, used of course.

A Very Boring Post

The Economy

More adjustments in the real estate world. According to Google news and Bloomberg, at last count, 900 plus mortgage employees laid off. Couldn't happen to more deserving people......

Consumers still spending but not like last year. Hires are up, probably due to our exports and the service economy is still growing. Service economy always did suck unless one was a manager or better though, can tell you that from observation and experience.

Job Hunting

Might be close to a job, don't know yet. We shall see.

Speaking of jay oh bees, this just popped into my mailbox........again.

Hi, My Name is Ray Rizzo.  I came across your resume while doing a field search.  Your resume matched my search criteria (none) for a sales and leasing consultant's position at Johnson Hyundai.  Some of our best make well over $100,000.00 Per Year! You may have limited experience, or no experience in auto sales, and that's OK. We will train you on everything you need to know.  Many people's first reaction to this is, "no way", and some are "sure I've thought about it."  Well, this is an opportunity to for your to enter into a six figure potential income!  You should come in for an interview and at least see if it's right for you.  We are recession proof, the second largest industry in the world, and everyone I know including myself continues to make higher income each year! My first Year in auto sales I made over $80,000.  My second year, $97,000, and on my 3rd year, I broke $100K! All the while, making friends, and helping people!  For us, car sales is about building relationships, value, customer satisfaction and personal wealth for our family, and future! In addition, we'll help you get off to a great start with cutting edge training techniques that will apply to many aspects of your life, not just sales.  All the tools you will need will be turned over to you this week. BUT, you have to get through this first interview for the doors of opportunity to swing open.

You will receive dynamic training; a professional and respectful work environment, guaranteed training salary net commissions, the opportunity to grow with the fastest growing Automotive Family in North Carolina, medical and dental benefits, great bonus plan, 401 K, and paid vacations

I will be conducting interviews in the Hyundai New Car Showroom on Monday October 8th and Tuesday October 9th ONLY from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm.

No appointment is needed. Please show up dressed and ready.  If you have any questions you may call my cell phone at 609-879-9188, or Email me at: rrizzo@tkworldwide.com.  Otherwise, I will see you at the interview. I look forward to meeting with you soon.

INTERVIEW LOCAITON: Same spelling error!
Johnson Hyundai
Hyundai New Car Showroom
5000 Old Raleigh Rd
Cary, NC 27511

If you need directions you can go to mapquest.com

Sincerely Yours,

Ray Rizzo


P.S. If you are curious how much the AVERAGE employee makes at a dealership in North Carolina.  Go to this link below, and click on "employment and payroll" and scroll down to your state.  You will need acrobat to read the file, but it's a free download, and almost all computers already have it.  Remember, theses are only averages, and they're still pretty high, just multiply that number 50 weeks, and you'll see what I mean.  Here is the link.  See you at the interview!


link to NADA page data here. 

I'll be at the interview.... in my next lifetime. Notice, same format as the last message, just an automated script that plugs in the names of the "messenger", a local dealer and time. Spam, spam, spam, and just canned "ham".

Nope.

Nope, no cigar. Going after job was interesting, three tests, two of which I passed with flying colors, a week of time, and ten gallons of gasoline burned. Then there was a week of paid work I gave up. One can get a little bummed after this. Going to hit the libraries for some good reading.

Later......

Job hunted some more.... Arrgh. Just not my week.
While job hunting, the router up and died. So I got a new one of those.

It may be time for The Handyman Can biz to get going. My fee is twenty-five (wish it was Euros) an hour, no minimum, and free estimates. Just need the biz license and insurance. Hey, I'll hire me.

Even Later.......

Someone's been scraping the public resumes again. This time, mine at Monster.

Hi, My Name is Deleted. I came across your resume while doing a field search. And everyone else's. Sometimes they screw up and give an "offer" several states away.  Your resume matched my search criteria for a sales and leasing consultant's position at Local Car Dealer. Search criteria .....NONE. .(Edited a paragraph out for brevity) All the while, making friends, and helping people! Smell fertilizer...fresh. For us, car sales is about building relationships, value, customer satisfaction and personal wealth for our family, and future! Fertilizer deeper. In addition, we'll help you get off to a great start with cutting edge training techniques that will apply to many aspects of your life, not just sales.  All the tools you will need will be turned over to you this week. BUT, you have to get through this first interview for the doors of opportunity to swing open.

You will receive dynamic training, medical benefits, guaranteed training salary*, additional monthly bonuses, 401K, fast track management program, and paid vacations.

Name of local car dealer here is a family owned and operated business that believes secure and happy team members will exceed their patrons' expectations. Along the same lines by company policy they maintain professional and respectful work environments. They are not your average car dealer.

I will be conducting interviews in the Brand here New Car Showroom on Monday October 1st and Tuesday October 2nd ONLY from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm.

No appointment is needed. Please show up dressed and ready.  If you have any questions you may call my cell phone at Deleted, or Email me at Email deleted.  Otherwise, I will see you at the interview. I look forward to meeting with you soon.

INTERVIEW LOCAITON: Spelling bee runner up?
Local Car Dealer
Brand here New Car Showroom
123 Main Street
Raleigh, NC Zip here

If you need directions you can go to the dealerships web site at Deleted link or mapquest.com

Sincerely Yours,

Deleted Name


P.S. If you are curious how much the AVERAGE employee makes at a dealership in North Carolina.....money hook here..... multiply that number 50 weeks, and you'll see what I mean.  Here is the link.  See you at the interview!

Link 

*Unit/Performance Based Net Commissions

Water Water Everywhere, but Where?

My water bill was waaay up there. 3280 gallons of water? Last month it was high too. I'm thinking it was the back bath toilet before it was repaired. Oh well, since the old overflow pipe is the last original part in the thing, it's been shut off until the back bath gets repaired and refreshened. Navy showers and flushing only when needed now. See if I can get it under a thousand gallons for the month. For every gallon under a thousand, I'm going to award myself a cent toward frivolity.

Back at the Garage House, helping out the boss. He's gotten the Carolina Cold, a nasty regional cold. I had one two years ago, sneezed so hard I'd get nose bleeds. Sprayed insulation. Nasty stuff....air one can see. The place needs doors and trim and finished floor, then done.

Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, road trip. Then Tuesday is an evaluation day at my prospective new employer to see if they like me. The job is going to be 80 miles round trip but if it's the only game in town.....I'll do it.

Strange offer from a health insurance agency, googled them and looked at their website as requested.Nothing in relation to my resume and the only openings were sales. There were no openings for claims personnel, customer service representatives, mailroom, adjusters, underwriters, and other functions that any insurance company has. Decided to pass. Another one from someone looking for car salesmen. We call these guys, resume scrapers. Basically, they scrape public resumes off of sites like Monster and Careerbuilder and make questionable job offers.

More Job "Openings"

Another job "opening". Here it is:

Information for your job

Dear (Sucker's name here)

We have found your resume at monster.com

We would like to suggest you a job of a Transfer Manager in our

company. This work is for those who have the company in USA.

Your goal will be to process payments between

our company and our clients through the bank checques with remote

Internet operations. There will be detailed instruction with each

payment order. It is a commission based position. We guarantee that

you will get about 10% of each processed payment.

This job allows you to:

- Get financial independence working only 3-5 hours per day;

- Efficiently work at home;

- Get additional free time;

- Develop high selfrespect and esteem.

Common requirements and abilities:

- Internet and e-mail skills; Experience in online work;

- Prior customer service experience is a good benefit, but not a must;

- Ability to create good administrative reporting;

- Willingness to work at home and take the responsibility to set up and achieve goals;

- Effective interaction with customers;

Salary: $700-$1300 per week

Current Vacancies: 5

If you are interested, or if you need some more information,

please contact me directly at via my personal email address.

I will need

- your full name

- your full company name (please, write it correctly, the check will be signed on this name)

- mail address

- your mobile telephone number

so I can send you the contract and other paperwork necessary for

you to get started. I am looking forward to hear from you soon

as possible.

In this day and age of automated electronic transfers, why would anyone want to move checks around? Most people now pay electronically. Really good chance the checks will be rubber, or they want to launder money. Thanks but no thanks.

Craiglist is great but they got some doozys too.

Earn income working-at-home as a 3rd Party Tracer Processing Mortgage Refunds (helping the Federal Government return unclaimed refunds)! 
This opportunity has been available for years, but is not very widely known. You can work only a few hours a week or several hours a day, it is up to you. The key job responsibilities and work activities include office support and clerical duties from the comfort of your own home. 

The following skills are desirable: Basic computer and typing skills, Ability to spell and print neatly, Ability to follow instructions.
Requirements: Computer with Internet access, Valid email address, Good typing, and basic Internet knowledge. 
JOB DESCRIPTION 
1.Contact the Home Owner by phone or by mail to notify them of their unclaimed refund.

2.Send them their claim form (Tracer Found Case Form) so they can fill it out, sign it and mail it back to you to claim the Government M.I.P.Refund. 

3.You fill in your information, case number, name, address and phone number. Then you mail it to HUD/FHA. 

4.As their Third Party Tracer you will earn anywhere from 20% to 30% of each refund you process.

Relevant Experience:
Computer Operator 
Data Entry Clerk 
Typist 
Cashier/Checker 
Customer Service Representative

Uh huh, how many mortgage refunds actually exist and why would someone expecting one would want to share? Smells like a "lead" seller.

Here's another, Standard MLM:

If you are looking to supplement your income, or replace it, all while working from home, then this is for you. Perhaps you are tired of the commute, the gas, and the boss. Maybe you find it difficult to leave your kids with someone each day as you go off to work.

Visit (MLM link here) to see a 4 minute movie. Leave your info on the site, and I will contact you personally. I am looking for people that want to make a positive change in their lives, as well as the lives of others.

You will get ALL of the information up front. You can be up and running tomorrow. I look forward to working with you!

Yet another MLM, this one selling timeshares:

Bill Gates can't get in, but you can!


Millions will be made almost overnight! What if you could market a perfect combination of a luxury resort membership $8k to $10k below historic retail value married to the most lucrative compensation plan in the history of direct sales?

How much could you earn if you earned $1,000 on every qualified sale YOU made AND $1,000 roll-up commissions on every qualified sale that occurred anywhere in YOUR organization to Unlimited Width . . Unlimited Depth?

Recorded: Conf. Call: 555-1212; Q&A: 555-1212

To see lucrative Comp plan: (MLM link here)
Listen to the testimonials: 555-1212

Log on NOW: (MLM Link here) 


Careerbuilder has some MLM masquerading as job openings too. Mostly nutritional supplements. It would take another post just to do that one.

Yes, I do flag these. If it's not a job, it shouldn't be on a jobsite.

Job Phishing

Or should it be people phishing for job hunters? Really interesting phish. Some evil person wants us Monster.com users to download something. The grammer and spelling were pretty bad in the message.

Monster.com company greets you

We are happy to inform you that we had succesfully upgraded our site. Because of our system has great changes, you have to install Monster.com certificated utility (click here) to be able to use monster.com database. If you don’t setup this tool until March, 1st, 2007, you will not be able to use your account. You don't have to answer this letter - it’s just a newsletter.

Thanks for cooperation.

Naturally it was bounced to Monster's abuse minions. They seem to have realized something was going on. The canned response was different this time.

Thank you for bringing this phishing email to our attention. This is a fraudulent email, purporting to be from Monster, which has been sent to a large group of Internet users, including some of our customers.