Is this a con? - Free "industry standard" IT training then a job

As there are thousands of fully experienced, skilled and qualified IT professionals of all levels floating about the jobs market without a sniff of a job or even a job to actually apply for .... it makes you wonder why somebody would be cold calling people at all.

There are two schemes I've heard of before:
1] The other week my friend got a similar cold call, they were really selling a training course, at the end of which they'd do their best to get you a job, which really meant you just being on their agency books and nothing more.

2] I was offered a place with a company where they'd invite you to train at their office for a couple of weeks, then you signed a 2-year contract with them to continue training (for free) at their offices. Once trained, they'd place you at a guaranteed minimum salary (not a bad one either) with a bonus for each hour you worked on site at a client's business (equivalent to about £25k). You had to be available to work for them for the two years. During the training period you were trained but there were no fees. I didn't do this as I was just unsure how things would go and felt they couldn't possibly have enough clients to be able to uphold their end of the deal. I can't remember their name, but they were based in London and Brighton. To be offered this place they had seen my CV, I had to attend a presentation and take a series of programming/IT aptitude tests and pass some unknown pass mark (I had already studied programming to degree level, so pretty much could follow the coding in those tests even though I hadn't seen any for about 10 years).

So, my money is on the company who called you offering training courses.

A quick google produced this result, which appears to be from somebody who signed up with a site just to type this opinion and never posted on that site again: http://www.certforums.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=270978&postcount=5