From:Siteabuse@monster.com
We are always diligent about fighting fraud on our site, including all of the tools and best practices that we have spoken about. Unfortunately, these fraudsters are ever-vigilant in observing our tactics and maneuvering around them. We have a team dedicated to manually screening, as well as our automated tools, but some inevitably slip through. They could be on the site for a matter of minutes, and a job seeker could be unfortunate enough to fall prey to them. That's why we've been so up-front with job seekers about how to conduct a safe job search, what to look out for, etc. (See the updated content linked throughout the site). We continue to refine our tools and processes, but we know that as we evolve, the fraudsters will, too.

The most valuable tool we can provide to job seekers is the power of knowledge. We have, and will continue to, work with the federal authorities to keep job seekers informed and educated as to how to protect themselves.

From: "Site Integrity" SiteIntegrity@careerbuilder.com
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:58:30 -0500
Subject: Scam Jobs

Both of the company's jobs you mentioned, Farix Co and Votyakov have been removed from the www.careerbuilder.com site. Thank you for bringing this to our attention and we hope that you will continue to assist us in our constant fight to keep careerbuilder.com safe.

Sincerely,

The CB Site Integrity Team
8am to 9pm Mon-Fri EST

One would think that these companies should not have been able to post subsequent ads on 01/06/05 given the fact that their names were brought to www.careerbuilder.com attention and identified as being associated with posting FRAUDULENT ADS.

http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t...light=Votyakov

Response:
Dear Scrub,

Thank you for contacting CareerBuilder.com. We apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced while using our job search system, and we appreciate you bringing this to our attention. It is unfeasible for us to screen all job postings as they are submitted to our site, due to the cost of such a process and the time delay it would impose on our new postings. An automated system, no matter how advanced, would be prone to mistaken rejections and invalid approvals. For such a screening system to work, it would also have to approve all edits made to job postings. With over 400,000 active jobs, we cannot guarantee that every job that appears on our site will meet our house rules.

That being said, we do hold our job posters to the very high standards set in our Terms and Conditions. When a job that possibly violates our Terms and Conditions is brought to our attention, we immediately investigate the allegation and take action to remedy the situation. If the job is deemed to be in violation, we will take action, including, but not limited to, terminating the job posting as soon as evidence of the violation can be obtained.

For legal reasons, we must have evidence of the violation on record before we can take action against any paid job posting. It is our commitment to our users that we provide as many jobs that match our users' interests as quickly as possible. For this reason, we provide real-time updates to our database whenever a job is added, edited or removed. We strive to provide only the best possible experience, and never participate in any practices involving the selling of our user list in any way. For more information about our Terms and Conditions or our user Privacy Policy, please see the referenced web pages below.

Terms and Conditions
http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Info/HHTerms.htm Privacy Policy
http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/Info/Privacy.htm

Thank you for your continued patience. In the meantime, there is a way to prevent certain companies' jobs from appearing in search results. For instance, if you were looking for administrative jobs but didn't want jobs from the "Acme" corporation, you would put this in the keyword field: Administrative -Acme. This will run a search with all the criteria and other keywords you specify, but adding the "-Acme" phrase to your keywords will eliminate any job listings that contain the word "Acme". Keep in mind that there is no spacing between "-" and the name of the company.

If you have any additional questions or comments, please let us know! We are available by email at or Monday through Friday and 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm Saturday and Sunday (Eastern Time). Good luck with your search!

Please use the link below to respond with further information if applicable. You may need to cut and paste the entire link (it may span two lines) into the address line of your web browser.


Sincerely,

Kristen Gaither
Customer Service Representative
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From: "Site Integrity" SiteIntegrity@careerbuilder.com

Dear Jim & John,

Please note the email below as this was sent by CareerBuilder, Vice President. It basically informs you that we appreciate your effort and time in helping us spot potential scams and fraudulent jobs on the website. With that being said, it takes time to develop the "Job Queue, Mike was speaking about which means probably by Q1 of next year it will be completed. Please start taking this in consideration when sending us correspondence in regards to scams and frauds as it takes time to complete the processes we mentioned. Our CEO and CFO stand firmly behind making sure that questionable jobs are removed from the site in a professional non-threatening manner that does not alert the person or persons committing fraud on our site. Also please be mindful in using the word "Criminals", as careerbuilder.com does not endorse any activities that occur or may have occurred on the site in regards to jobseekers. Again we thank you for your diligence and persistence in this matter but we ask that you remain patient as the new system we are trying to finish is implemented to better protect and serve the 12 million jobseekers that use careerbuilder.com on a daily basis.


Sincerely,

The CB Site Integrity Team
8am to 9pm Mon-Fri EST

From: Scrub Scrub@yahoo
To: SiteIntegrity@careerbuilder.com
Cc: complaints@ifccfbi.gov
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:55:41 -0700

TO WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN

A major organized INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL GROUP operating out of RUSSIA is involve in soliciting USA residents by offering employment such as WORK AT HOME/FINANCIAL AGENT/FINANCIAL CORRESPONDENCE/MORE RECENTLY CORPORATE CLIENT MANAGER etc. This group primary objective is to get US RESIDENTS to cash counterfeit checks and subsequently wired or send funds via Western Union to them. Also to get people to send merchandise purchased with stolen credit cards.

Now this group has been running the SAME IDENTICAL SCAM ADS for the LONGEST time. The only changes that have been made TO THESE ADS HAVE BEEN THE AD TITLE, THE COMPANY NAME OR THE CATEGORY THE AD IS BEING PLACED. In light of this, I do not see WHY CAREERBUILDER.COM have not been able to IMPLEMENT CONTROLS TO SPOT THESE ADS BEFORE THEY ARE PUBLISHED.

A CONTROL PROCESS WOULD BE TO ENSURE ADS that are being published in MULTIPLE LOCATIONS should be double check by a Manager or Supervisor prior to it being published. Secondly, ads that are entered remotely especially THOSE WORK AT HOME ADS can not be publish without A STAFF VERIFICATION.

My concern is that THIS HAS GONE ON FOR A LONG TIME AND IT CONTINUES. It seems to me that Careerbuilder have not taken ADEQUATE MEASURES TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC.

COMPANIES THAT FAILED TO ADDRESS POTENTIAL PROBLEMS ONLY RUN THE RISK OF A CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT. FORD MOTOR COMPANY COMES TO MIND BECAUSE THEY FAILED TO ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THEY HAD A PROBLEM WITH THE EXPLORER.

I do not expect Careerbuilder.com to remedy this problem. What bothers me is that I have to constantly remind CAREERBUILDERS.COM or bring this to the attention of Site Integrity within days of these postings. And when I do point this out, the staff do not do a SEARCH of the ENTIRE database to SEE if there are similar ADS posted out there. I have to again send a second or third requests before all fraudulent ads are idenitfied and deleted. THIS IS NOT SITE INTEGRITY.

Please forward this e-mail to your Manager and General Counsel. If I do not get a favorable response, I will be contacting the President or CEO of careerbuilder.com with the many correspondences I have had with this department.

I await a response.

Sincerely,

Scrub

Do Monster or HotJobs have scammers on their site or is this just Careerbuilder ?

To say that Monster or HotJobs do not have scam job postings on either site would be misleading. They are not immune. Like all businesses, online scammers are ploying the internet looking for unsuspecting victims. And there are millions online.

However, there is a difference in how Monster or HotJobs resolve scammers exploiting their database. They resolve this with EXPEDIENCY until a new one crop up.

Unlike Careerbuilder, one do not see a sense of urgency to resolve this. Scammers have been exploiting Careerbuilder database as legitimate employers since to the best of my observation 1/01/05.
In January of 2005, we at Scam and ScamFraudAlert began to see more victims who had been contacted by potential employers (scammers) after we were successful in having Careerbuilder take responsibility of policing their site. In essence, the scammers had switched tactics and it continues today.

This is August of 2005 and fraudulent employers are as rampant on careerbuilder site as they have been since January 2005.
When will Careerbuilder get this under control? Is their business model mirrors that of qchex?

CareerBuilder has no shame or regerts regarding fraudulent jobs in the work at home category. The top of this job posting tell you it is business as usual.

http://accounting.careerbuilder.com/...X5XL2RWTS3VYZM
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Employee Type: N/A
Industry: Sales - Marketing

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