I learned about Get Hired Boot Camp Dot Com from an advertisement that came to me via the International and Insolvency Professionals Group on LinkedIn. The advertisement was posted by Ryan A. Scarborough of Voidray Marketing Solutions.
Mr. Scarborough has next to no profile at all on LinkedIn and, so far as I can see, neither he nor Voidray (nor 'Get Hired Boot Camp.dot.com'!) has anything to do with credit or insolvency. Moreover, if you Google 'Get Hired Boot Camp' you will see that whilst it offers a free webinar, it's also selling some very expensive courses and is looking for affiliates - people who will sign up and pay up and go on to offer a free webinar based on the free webinar and so on, and so on.
Judging by Mr. Scarborough's input on LinkedIn, he has signed up and he has paid up and is now doing his best to make something out of nothing using whatever tools he can - and I suppose that one can't blame him for using them very badly.
The Job Centre may not be an exciting place to be, and it's no fun answering advertisements and sending out endless CV's and trying to stay positive about your prospects, but it's certainly better than signing up and wasting time and money buying into schemes that are - like the Boot Camp - deliberately targeted to attract people who are unemployed, and having a hard time getting a regular job.
Geoff - http://www.metlissbarfield.com
After 7 minutes of signing onto the seminar, the meeting never started. I was suspicious that I may have launched a virus or something. So I goggled Get Hired Boot Camp and the word scam. Low and behold, I come across this post. Thanks for sharing your observations, I will not waste any of my time entertaining this "mess". Now I just wished that I had not provided them my primary email address.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the real story.
ReplyDeleteYou should have been suspicious that they asked for your PRIMARY email address and they requested it in CAPITAL LETTERS. The strange request should have been a red flag to you. I gave them my bogus address that I use when I don't trust a website or person. I wanted to check out if they are legit or not. Unfortunately, they've weaseled their way into legit sites.
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