Have You Been Scammed Lately? I Have...

Earlier this year while living in Hawaii I wrote a article, "Time to Hate Lack of Integrity" well, here is a add on to that, "Time to Hate being Scammed".

Since the middle of 2001 my wife has been the main provider for our family (as many of you know)...and Tarzan here absolutely Hates it and is doing every thing in his power to reverse this! Hopefully this site and some others I have will be one of the tools in doing just that...

In the mean while, I have been on craigslist...I've lost count of the hours...and looking and searching...

My hopes got pretty high this past week when I saw 2 post on craigslist! The first one was, "$2150.00 min. per month take home Cleaning Carpets". So, I called and set up a appointment for a interview in San Diego just off the 805 freeway and Clairemont Mesa Blvd. There were 3 other guys there and we all filled out the applications and then we sat through a "pitch" of how awesome the company was and if we worked hard we could easily make 6 figures within one year! Yeah Baby!! Right!? Red-Alert all the way...

I go back home and google them and I can't find them anywhere. Oh yeah, I was told to call back the next between 11:00 and 11:30 and say specifically, "I'm calling to see how the interview went," to see if I was approved or hired etc. So I did, and wow, "Congratulations Alan, your application was approved". Tonight was actually suppose to be the training. I asked the lady if they had a website and she said no but Kirby does. Well, to make a long story short what they are doing is recruiting people into their Network Marketing business to go door to door selling Kirby vacuums. I couldn't believe it!

The 2nd add on craigs-list should be against the law and is really just unbelievable. "Warehouse workers needed, $45,000 per year. Needed 1st and 2nd shift, easy freeway access. If interested, email me at name@gmail.com".

I shot an email off right away! I knew it was a auto-responder when I received an immediate response. In the email there was a link for me to click on which was a so called application. Look legit at first. After filling out the application, down at the bottom, it said that polls show that prospective employers like the idea of employees furthering their education and if I was interested in doing so. I am, therefore I said yes and after hitting the submit button I was led to another site with various online universities where I filled in the forms etc.

Immediately I received 4 calls, 2 to my home and 2 to my cell from Phoenix University and Colorado Tech University. That afternoon and the next day my phones rang about 12 times from them. Now, they did nothing wrong. It is the guy posting those adds. There is no such job as he mentioned. It is a 100% Scam to collect your name, phone number and email and he then gets paid by the various Universities for providing them leads! I even got a text, yesterday morning telling me to call this number regarding the warehouse position. So I thought then, maybe this isn't a Scam. I called and they told me my application was received and that it is being processed etc. and was then asked, "Now, Mr. Young you mentioned that you were interested in furthering your education, is this still correct?" and I quickly said this is no longer the case, that I was just trying to get this job and was cleverly Scammed into filling out this questionnaire...and the 'gentleman' immediately hung up on me!

All I can say is WOW! It really has blown my mind. Getting peoples hopes up and then smashing them against the rocks is one of the saddest forms of human behavior there is! Don't you agree that this is one of those moments when it's "Time to Hate being Scammed?"!"

Just a little something to think about. If you are out there and struggling somewhat, hang in there, keep your head up high. Focus on you Dream, Your Why, Your Purpose and March On!

And If you are doing just insanely Awesome in your life right now, Way to go and Congrats!! Go find someone today that you know could use a word of encouragement and give them a big hug!!! :)