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from the get-the-pitchforks-and-torches dept.
Nick Corcodilos of Ask the Headhunter is familiar to many in the tech community for his career and employment advice. This week, Corcodilos' readers started chronicling the misdeeds of a recruiter variously known as 7F, SevenFigureCareers, 7Figure, and several other names in the comments section of one of his articles about recruiting scams. It seems 7F has been taking people's money and then failing to deliver on its promises:
"They promised interviews for six- and seven-figure jobs," said [7F victim John] Rice, "but delivered short phone calls with illiterate phonies."
As more and more information emerged, the crowdsourced evidence helped persuade credit card company American Express to terminate 7F's ability to do business through Amex. 7F has been stopped from scamming, but Corcodilos hopes Amex will pursue the matter until 7F "gets hauled before the authorities, goes to court, is tried, fined and goes to jail." I'm sure the people 7F scammed agree.
Any Soylentils out here do business with 7F or similar scummy recruiting firms? You might want to see about getting your money back.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by edIII on Thursday October 13 2016, @07:42PM
Never pay up front for anything over the cost of dinner.
Anything else over the cost of dinner should be negotiated in advance, verify their licensing and bonding if necessary, and have a well written contract. In other words, the higher the cost the more due diligence required. Being paid on contingency is a well known concept, and 7F should have been paid after the 2nd month's salary had been received. At the low end of their promised salary is the easy ability for 7F to be paid quite handsomely, so why would contingency be unreasonable?
A person capable of a six figure job should know this, and it would be astounding that a 7 figure job would be headed by somebody that didn't.
If it sounds to be good to be true, if often isn't and fools and their money are easily parted.
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