Wednesday, October 10, 2007

PostJobFree.com vs Paid Job Boards

Here's the story explaining why it's better to post your jobs on PostJobFree.com and on PostJobFree.com only.

Today a recruiter asked me: why her PostJobFree job openings are not available on Indeed.com?

Quick investigation showed that:
1) She posted the same job openings on couple of paid job boards and only then posted on PostJobFree.com.
2) Indeed.com considered these job openings duplicates, so later posts (made through PostJobFree) were hidden as duplicates in Indeed.com search results.
3) Her posts on paid job boards expired already, so when job seeker opens link on Indeed.com -- he sees: "Sorry, this job is no longer available. It may have been filled by the employer. Please try another search below.".
That's quite disappointing, considering that job opening is still open.

Conclusion:
- Posting on paid job boards may hurt you, if you don't have money to pay for running your job ad long enough.
- You would be better off if you just post your job on www.postjobfree.com and stay away from paid job boards.

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Bad loan scam

Here's another example of scam add posted on PostJobFree.com
I removed this scam ad already.

Here's how it works:
You get "Loan" and foreign check.
Then scammer asks you to return part of the money that you got.
You return it... and few weeks later will find out that the original check was fake.

Here's how this scam ad looks like:
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Company Name: Morgan Loans Company

Attn:Financial Support at Your Door Step (Apply For A Fast Loan)I am a private legitimate lender.The Morgan Loans Company World Largest financial Company I give out kinds of loan which include:
AUTO LOAN
BAD CREDIT LOAN
PERSONAL LOAN
STUDENT LOANS
MORTGAGE LOAN
REFINANCE
PAYDAY LOANS

HOME EQUITY LOANS
DEBT CONSOLIDATION
BUSINESS LOANS.
LOAN DETAILS
No obligation application
Easily manage your budget: loan payments are always the same
Increased affordability with extended loan terms
Know exactly when your loan will be paid off
No prepayment penalty for paying off the loan early.
Any interested person,firms,organisation,co-operate bodies irrespective of your country.
Contact us now scammeraddress@yahoo.com
Thank you. Morgan Charmber,Chief Financial Officer,Morgan Loans Company.
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Sunday, October 07, 2007

[Apply button] and [Contact this Recruiter] button

When you post your job on PostJobFree.com you may specify that you want allow job seekers to contact you through "Contact form".

When you post your job opening, simply check "Add [Apply] button to this job post" checkbox.

If you want "Add [Apply] button to this job post" checkbox be checked by default, go to Recruiter default settings and check "Enable [Apply for this job] button on my job postings by default." checkbox.

In you want job seekers contact you from your Recruiter Profile page, go to Edit Recruiter info page and check "Show [Contact this Recruiter] button on Recruiter info page." checkbox.

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Carders scam job posts

Carders are bad guys who steal credit cards online and then milk them.

Stealing credit cards is a felony, so carders are looking for some dummies to cash credit cards for them.

Here's how it works:
1) Carder steal lots of credit cards
2) Carder find some money laundering dummy to take cash from credit cards.
3) Dummy sends 90% of cash to carder (who is in another country) over Western Union or Money Gram.
Dummy keeps 10% for himself.
4) After few weeks police/FBI comes visit dummy, and the dummy has to pay all cashed money back and has a good chance to go to prison.

There are many ways how bad carders find those money-laundering dummies.
One of them, unfortunately, is through free job boards, like PostJobFree.com.
I'm trying to delete these scam job posts as soon as I discover them.

Here's one example of such scam advertisement:

=============== Start of SCAM job ad ===============
HOUSE OF BLISS ART GALLERY
London, United Kingdom

Dear Sir/Madam,
Would you like to work online from Home/Temporarily
and get paid weekly? We are seeking to offer you a Job position with our reputable company, House Of Bliss Art Gallery. We need someone to work as Representative/Book keeper in USA. This is in view of our expansion program to USA where we presently don't have any office. You don't need to have an Office and this certainly wont disturb any form of work you have going at the moment. Our integrated yarn and fabric manufacturing operations use state-of-the-art textile equipment from the world's leading suppliers.

Order processing, production monitoring and process flow is seamlessly integrated through a company-wide computer network.

1 The average monthly income is about 20,000.00 USD
to 45,000.00 USD.
2 No form of investments from you
3 This job takes only 1-3 hours per day

About the job:
We have sales representatives all over the world to
distribute our products. You know, it's not easy to start a business in a new market (in USA AND CANADA).
There are hundreds of competitors, close direct contacts between suppliers and customers and other difficulties, which impede our sales promotion. We have decided to deliver the products upfront, it's very risky but it should push up sales about 25 percent. Thus we need to get payments for our products as soon as possible. Unfortunately we are unable to open Bank Accounts in the listed countries without first registering the company name. Presently, with the amount of Orders we have, we cannot put them on hold, fear of loosing the customers out
rightly to our competitors.
Secondly, we cannot cash these payments from the USA soon enough, as International Checks take about 14 working days for cash to be made available.
We lose about 75,000 USD of net income each month because we have money transfer delays*
Hence your task is to coordinate payments from customers and help us with the payment process. You are not involved in any sales.
We make direct contact for sales of products. Once orders
are received and sorted We deliver the product to a customer (usually through FEDEX).The customer receives and checks the products. After this has been done the customer has to pay for the products. About 90 percent of our customers prefer to pay through certified personnel checks or bank to bank transfer and Money Order depending on the amount involved.
That is why we have decided to open this new Job position for solving this problem.
Your tasks are;

1.Receive payment from Customers
2.Cash Payment at your Bank / Cash point
3.Deduct 10% which will be your percentage/pay on
Payment processed
4.Forward balance after deduction of percentage/pay
to any of our offices as you will be instructed.

Local Money transfers take barely hours, so it will give us a possibility to get customer's payment almost immediately.

For example you've got
3000.00 USD you take your income: 300.00 USD Send to us: 2700.00 USD.
First month you will have 15-20 transactions on 3,000.00-4,000 USD.

For example 18 transactions on 3,500.00 USD give you 4,410.00 USD per
month plus your basic monthly salary of 1,000.00.
Total: 5410.00 USD per month.
After establishing a close co-operation with us you'll be able to operate with larger orders and you'll be able to earn more.
Our payments will be issued out in your name and you can have them cashed in your bank or other Cashing Services, Payment could be made into your credit card.
Deduct your weekly salary and forward the balance to the company via Western Union Money Transfer or Money Gram.
We understand it is an unusual and incredible job position.
This job takes only 3-7 hours per week. You'll have a lot of free time doing another job(s), you'll get good income and regular job. But this job is very challenging and you should understand it. We are looking only for the worker who satisfies our requirements and will be an earnest assistant.
.....
=============== End of scam job ad ===============

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