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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14 2016, @01:14AM
> and the whole point of being there is to impress suckers.
Its not binary. Nice digs is a way to signal success. Its kind of like advertising -- if you can afford advertising then you are at least doing business at a level that can afford advertising, it doesn't really matter what the ad says, just the fact that you've got enough money to pay for it.
Of course there are people who try to "fake it til they make it" by hacking that image. The lesson is that we are human, the world is imperfect and you need to take into account more than just one source of information when making a judgment. But you should not automatically discount a source of information just because it can be hacked because everything can be hacked by someone with sufficient motivation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14 2016, @05:48AM
Nice digs can be rented for a low fee.
There are companies out there that rent stuff like that.
just because it can be hacked because everything can be hacked by someone with sufficient motivation
If there is money involved there WILL be people trying to game the system.