Career Network has been sending out blast emails to thousands of people offering positions at a grossly higher salary than those positions normally command; e.g., clerical help normally pays $8-$11 an hour - they're offering $18.52 per hour - I don't think so. If it sounds too good to be true - well, you know the rest.

Career Network does not provide any phone numbers, street addresses, and many cannot locate their website - myself included. On RipoffReport, someone had checked with the State of Florida for a business license under this name - none exists.

When searching for jobs, ensure the form you are about to enter your information on is, in fact, the form of a licensed contracting agency or the company itself. Entering personal information on non-secure forms can leave this information open to "data mining, " wherein it is scraped off whatever database you entered it on, and sold to other companies to blast-email you with junk.

When receiving emails, ensure the agency who sent it cites a name, phone number at the bottom. If they cite a company you have not heard of before - stop, open a new browser, and look up their company. If you can't find it, delete their email and "junk" label it.

Many legitimate recruiters will blast-email for legitimate jobs; this is not uncommon. They do, however, provide more information than what this "Career Network" does. I'd steer clear of them.

If you have any difficulty, file a complaint with both the FTC and FCC (FCC governs communication issues such as email).

And let's hope we all find a decent job soon so we don't have to guard ourselves against this type of thing!

I used this website because I thought I was applying for jobs! I assumed it was like other credible job websites until I was already done with the 'application process' and had gotten the 'confirmation email'. When I returned to the website to log in and search for jobs I found it suspicious that I couldn't access all the personal information I had given them, including my home address, telephone number, and my whole past employment history. Most other job websites allow you access to that information and the right to terminate your account if you so please. Not this one!

I sent an email to the 'contact us' address and asked that my account and information be deleted because I no longer wanted to use their 'services', and to date have not received any email back. I can still log into the website! I have received several phone calls on the number I listed with them from a man I can't understand. He sounds like he's from oversees but the call came from a local cell phone number.

I was angry at myself for not going with my gut instinct when I was on this website! Especially after coming on to this one and realizing that my instinct had been right! Now I'm worried about where all my personal information will be going and to whom!

I have applied for several positions with this company. They have sent me emails to every job stating that they have qualified me and that I need to access the link they provide me to in order to add additional information to my previous resume submission. It wasn't until tonight that the light bulb went on and when I did a search for the company, I came across your site with their Name in bold.

I agree with all others who have filed reports with your website stating this company needs to be shut down!

Thank you for giving us this forum for notifying other of Bogus employers.

While investigating the continued contact and fake job postings on craigslist from Career Network, Inc. reps, I decided to pretend to be an employer and sent an inquiry to [email protected] (another front contact, that's how they operate, but if you always look at the Terms & Agreements it always shows CN or Career Network as the real comany behind the fake web pages), I received a failure notice, not surprised because they do not represent an employers, even though listed on their web pages (I keep wondering why some of these employers aren't doing anything, Target, Allstate? etc. that's my next reporting step).

The failure notice came back amazingly with a real person's name on the return email and not the lilaccareers. Yeah! Fraudsters are stupid, they eventually show a trail and get caught. I used to help investigate and gather data for a lender for loan fraud investigations so I'm very internet savvy and able to 'connect the dots' so to speak to find information. The return email on the delivery failure notice (I've copied below to show my legitimate claim) is Alexander Simon.

I searched for Alexander Simon Career Network, but got all of these its for Alex Simon linked to Talent Network, Inc. yet another same to defraud parent of money pretending to be an on-line agency representative. Same scheme, different subject. Further searching shows a Lou Pearlman behind another fraud scheme and an 'Alex' named with him with a foreign last name, but it may be the same Alex, as the schemes/scams were the same. I'm hoping the legal agencies are working on this, as it is not just getting information they are asking for money. Note: Career Network, Inc. was charged by the FTC in 2001 for the same thing. Article is on the FTC website, and I also spoke to them on the phone. Very interested to hear my information.

Everyone needs to report to real legal authorities when they have solid evidence, as well as on blogs and complain to the job boards and websites. Craigslist appreciates our help, they do want only legitimate people, but this is bigger than they are, we can help.

I have applied for several job postings through this website, and received second emails from them asking for more information if I am interested in the positions. I uploaded my resume, and gave reference information. I didn't suspect anything, because many of the questions are the same as I've seen on other job search engines such as monster.com and Career builder.com. I even googled the company name before doing much through them, and didn't see anything that made me think they were a scam.

But, when I began getting second emails on EVERY application I made, I became suspicious. And I was asked to input my references for each position applied for as well. I just googled them again, and saw this link to the ripoff website, and a comment made just this week by someone else. So - now I am very disappointed and worried about the information this company has on me, and the information they might have gleaned from the 3 people I sent as references.

If any one else has used this company in their job search, you should probably stop! Let complaintsboard know - and the FTC, as it seems this company was charged in 2001 with scamming for post office & government jobs.