Buying stuff out of the back of a truck

Is it possible that the "scammers" are recruited legitimately through newspaper classified ads for "marketing companies"?

I've had an experience with what appeared to be a very fishy company. I passed an interview (didn't even need to show a resume or work history!) and after a three hour seminar, still had practically no idea what I was going to be doing. Something about selling knock-off perfumes in mall parking lots, but they were insistent on the point that we weren't selling, we were marketing.

Originally Posted by tagutcow

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Is it possible that the "scammers" are recruited legitimately through newspaper classified ads for "marketing companies"? I've had an experience with what appeared to be a very fishy company. I passed an interview (didn't even need to show a resume or work history!) and after a three hour seminar, still had practically no idea what I was going to be doing. Something about selling knock-off perfumes in mall parking lots, but they were insistent on the point that we weren't selling, we were marketing.
Someone once tried to sell me kids toys in the parking lot at Safeway. They had this whole story about how it was some product that hadn't hit the North American market yet and that it was all the rage in Europe, and how they were willing to sell it to me for $25 dollars as part of a special marketing kick-off campaign. I told them I didn't want it since I don't even have kids, but they were so desperate to make me buy something, they followed me around and went as low as $5, but of course they reminded me "my boss will be really mad if he finds out about the deal I'm giving you!" I had a job interview with one of these ultra shady companies once when i was desperate for a summer job in first year university. You know it's something stupid when they don't actually tell you what the job is at your interview. They tried to recruit us into selling pizza coupons... not even pizzas. Just the coupons like the ones you get in the mail for free... except we were going to get $20 for a sheet of them. They didn't actually tell me what the job was until I was "shadowing" someone on my first day. After the first unemployed bum answered the door in his underwear, and this guy STILL tried to convince him to borrow $20 from a roommate... I left.

Originally Posted by Xericx

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very common scam. especially the white van in the mall parking lot that had "too many speakers delivered to them". Ive been hit up by them in different states.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speakers

Haha, A guy I used to work with had that happen to him. He paid $300 for these 'Pro Audio' speakers in the parking lot, which we checked out online, and their were literally 0 hits for the model number.

Needless to say, they sounded like ****.

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Originally Posted by FidelCashflow

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FTFY

No what every you do don't egg them.

There is another fairly popular scam when a guy tries to sell you some cheap vinyl "Armani" jackets. Some guy driving a Hyundai SUV with Maryland plates approached me in Manhattan a few weeks ago as I was getting into my car and asked if I speak Italian. He then said for directions to the airport and started to say he worked in the fashion industry and how he was on his way back to Italy right now. I then remembered reading about a scam that begins the same way and started to shake my head. The scammer dude got the hint and left to look for other pray. He didn't even get a chance to tell me about his extra jackets. Reading reports on the web it seems almost identical scams are taking place all over the world. I doubt anyone on SF would fall victim to these scams since they would see the "Armani/Versaci" jackets for what they are. Doing a search brings up lots of hits.

one time in high school walking home someone was selling fake perfume/cologne from the back of their car in the pavilions parking lot and they approached me and my friend and obviously it was super sketchy and my friend asked to smell it and it was awful... they had boxes full of perfume. super random.

A friend of mine wanted me to sell a home surround sound system he had, that his dad got from the fabled 'men in the white van'. Surprisingly, aside from the ****** system itself, it came with legit Sony speakers =\\