[TEXT DELETED BY FORUM TEAM] Marketing Company - YOU WILL NOT BE A MANAGER ONE DAY!!!

ScottishKing

I recently applied for a job within this company and now decided not to attend the interview. After doing some simple research online I have been completely turned off the prospect of working for what appears to a be a shady company and quite frankly in some cases slave labour.

Now I don't know an awful lot about all this stuff but after some research into Cobra, I found that Marketing Company Scotland are linked to Cobra though Mamba Marketing. Both of which hold the same company director * and through researching on more on Cobra have found myself quite worried about the growing trend of young people like myself falling into this scam.

After looking on The Marketing Company Scotland website I later found myself a little confused reading the "stories" that "owners" and higher up staff have put on there.

Claiming to have joined the company many many years ago and then finding out the company was actually formed in late May 2011. Go to Companies House website and search. (EDIT: Will re-check this after more findings)

Also the company does not appear on the Data Protection Register something which also raised a red flag for me.

Also looking more into the website and more of the names:

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People who I plan to do more research into.

I found another marketing website based in Edinburgh which is all but a direct copy of The Marketing Scotland Website...discoverymarketing in Edinburgh.

This took no more that a few hours for me to find out and I wonder with a little more time and right people researching it what they would find.

I do realise this could be no more than a paranoid delusion of mine and that some will rubbish what I have posted but I felt compelled to post what I found.

Should I find more I will update you all.

( For some reason I can't post links but I am willing to PM anyone who wants to see some of what I have found.)

Foil hat back on...

PlutoinCapricorn

In my opinion SK, you can't do too much research. Many young people don't know this however: they are far too trusting. It is painful to have to rain on people's parades by telling them the truth about all these 'jobs'.

ScottishKing

I do plan to do some more research into this and try to make some people aware of what is going on. I think my next move will be to take some of this stuff to my local Job Centre to at least raise an awareness of these "fish hook" jobs.

Too many have I seen advertised promising something and turning out to be something quite different. The Job Centre's should be held to a reasonable level of accountability for not properly researching the jobs they are willing to advertise.

frankie22

Hi all. i have a job interview at United Leeds Endeavours today and was wondering if you could tell me, do they not pay you then? are they a scam?. also has anyone heard about R.T.R in Bradford? i also have an interview with them and their website seems similar to United Leeds Endeavours. thanks

Naoiji

I think Platinum Force are at it again. Applied for a seemingly innocent Sales & Marketing Job at entry level, alarm bells started going off after they had called me and arranged for my initial interview.

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The surname of the person I was dealing with suddenly changed between emails.

- No logo or address on their email signatures.

- The website is conveniently "down" as I go for further information?

Might still go just to get a laugh out of it.

esmerelda731

Yet another company taking advantage of people, paying less than the minimum wage Elysium in bold st liverpool. Anyone else been scammed here for sales and marketing jobs

daisychainy

I have just been 'recruited' (exactly the same as above, weird 'second interview' included) by Redfive and was due to move halfway across the country to start Monday.
Thank God i thought yesterday's 'interview' was somewhat suspect (highlights included 9 hours traipsing round a council estate in the pouring rain and being screamed at by a heroin addict that 'i don't want no charity') (text removed by MSE Forum Team) and trusted good ol' Mr Google with a quick search.
add to the above highly dubious sales ethics, with the 'manager' i was shadowing attempting to talk a crying 75 year old into giving away her tiny pension to 'a good cause' and accosting a heavily pregnant woman with '1 in 5 children in Sierra Leone die before the age of 5. imagine that happening to yours'

System

Ask Client Solutions are doing the rounds in sheffield again.

matricaria

Came across a couple of the door-to-door slave labour companies during my recent job search in Manchester:

Harvey Wayne Communications
Paramount force

Under the same address as Paramount is another company called 'Oracle Advertising' that seems to be the same kind of business venture.

A slightly different scam company recruiting is 'See it Click it'. Didn't apply with them, still found me, booked an interview but on further research it turned out that they employ you for telly sales selling facebook pay per click advertising for small businesses. They charge them via direct debit (around £200/month) and do absolutely nothing in return. They make it very hard to cancel the contract, of course. They seem to belong to a company called UK Business Utilities.
They are all over ripoffreport.com. Beware!

ronny86

did anyone else also experience the room with the loud music and excessive high fiving? wierd stuff O_o