Recruitment scam; any ideas for payback?

[Rob_R]

Hi guys, as some of you may know, finding employment once you have successfully completed your degree can be a laborious and demoralising process but you persevere with the thought of a silver lining.

However companies deliberately scamming graduates about possible employment in this case: http://lecari.blogspot.com/2009/07/job-scam-doing-... is just inhumane.

They attempted to contact me after an application I made through Reed, and as any diligant applicant would do I decided to find out more about them, but found very little about them and a lot about a string of complaints relating to a scam.

What I'm asking the collective is; what would be a good way of scamming them back? I'm thinking along the lines of the infamous 419 scam where a scammer is constantly strung along or are there other avenues I can use? All suggestions considered.

Thanks in advance.

[Mr Fenix]

Best scam is not to pull one and waste your time with companies like this. Get going with real job hunting and you'll find success is the best form of revenge:0)

[Technonotice]

hahaha lol

I did this last year. I had a suspicion it would be sales but just went along anyway as I like to give everything a chance.

Turned up to the office went out with some creep selling talk talk broadband to people at their doors.

Commission only bullst. The 'hook' was offering cheaper broadband. However when you added everything up the cost was exactly the same. The creep just 'forgot' to mention the additional costs etc etc.

I didn't hang around very long.

ETA, I clicked the link you posted and saw the name of the company I 'worked' for.

If they were just honest about the job roles then it wouldn't be so bad. No mention of sales at all in the advert or the interview.

Edited by Technonotice on Monday 19th October 15:53