01132523070

Thanks to all for your comments on this forum.  I too received the various phone calls, texts and emails from Apollo and in my naivety replied and set up a meeting.  'Sam Wright' and 'Mr Biggs' also appear to be fans of mine and just could not wait to meet me!

Lucky I found this forum just prior to arranging transport and the purchase of a new suit!  Told them to take a long walk off a short pier.

Words fail me that they should be doing this to people who are a a very difficult time in their life.  May their next .... be a hedgehog!

Clearly a scam.  I got the same email and a quick google led here.  They are preying on people who don't use social media to get jobs.

Well any one who is considering meeting with one of these people should consider two issues;
1. in Our People section you will note that there are no CV's of these supposed experts. Would it not be normal to have a resume of the years of HR experience these people have? An oversight? not a chance, its because they mostly don't have any more experience than you, and lying is fraud when they ask you for a FAT fee.

2. If you look at the pictures of their people a question to ask yourself.  Why would any reputable national company post what appears as a rouges gallery of ATM fraudsters (think Crime Watch) on their website unless it is what is appears to be?

Finally a fool and their money are easily parted.

Thanks to everyone for posting their experiences and warnings on here. I applied for a legitimate job through Exec2Exec and received a reply stating my CV and details have been sent to the company advertising the job. What I did miss was the bit below:

As an additional service for our valued clients,  our sister company, Apollo, are offering all Exec2Exec clients a free career review. To arrange this in your local office please forward your CV, advising your current salary to james.denham@apollo.eu.com or alternatively visit the website www.apollo.eu.com

Was a bit taken aback when the registration confirmation email from Exec2Exec showed my username and password in plain text! Will avoid Exec2Exec for future job applications.

The email from Sam Wright didn't take long, less than an hour. I called the number and spoke to a 'Gregory Mann' who had the patter but couldn't get my head round why they were so keen to meet and wouldn't have an initial discussion over the phone. They knew nothing about my industry and refused to give their Senior Exec's name, only referring to him as 'Mr. Storey' .
It just didn't feel right. Found Nick Storey on their website and after much searching arrived here - am so glad I didn't waste my time meeting with these parasitic leeches.

UK Apollo Group appears to be a community of dubious businesses trying to leech off job searchers.  Any interaction with them will lead to inevitable spam for the others;

Exec2Exec
Taylor CVs
Career Analysis

Give them all a wide berth.

In a way I think it is sad that these people have reached such a dead-end in their own careers that blagging money out of people using hollow promises is all they have left to offer.  I wonder if their friends and family are proud - sad, perhaps they should just retire.

@Dobbie. Appreciate the sanity check and list of associated scam artists. Unfortunately having had the misfortune to cross paths with these kind of individuals they not only see themselves as being a cut above others but often the law. What they are doing may not be technically illegal but it is certainly sharp practice. Fraud is still robbery but with a smile...

Worth noting that I didn't get any kind of response for the legitimate job through Exec2Exec, their website just shows the status as forwarded. After applying for the same job through a bona fide agency I got a call and email from the recruiter the next day! In addition there's no way to remove your profile from their site, you can change your details but it appears impossible to fully de-register.

True to form I have also had the mail follow up from Taylor CV's
Now as CV's are about presentation etc and getting it right you would think they would proof read their mails!!! See below an exert from it, I think it helps build the picture of these people!

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Good Morning,

We have recetly attempted to contact you regarding your CV.

I am emailing to offer you a CV review at no cost. Simply reply to this email with your CV today and I'll review it and suggest improvements.

We are the UKs leading CV writing service, to view our customer reviews please follow the links below.
Alternatively please have a look at our website Taylor CVs or our other social media platforms.

These guys only have one modus operandi. Buy data harvested from job websites, and then use it to spam and cold call 'candidates' for their services.

This is unlawful as they are processing the data without the consent of the data subject, which is a breach of the DPA, and it is unlawful as it breaches Section 22 of the PECR. They probably try and claim they get data from 'legitimate', or 'reputable' suppliers, but this is nonsense.

The ASA found them out - https://www.asa.org.uk/Rulings/Adjudications/ ... px#.U8algI1dXdI
Further reports would probably lead them to being reported to CAP, who have the power to do things like stop them from being able to buy google ads.

Above all, who the hell would believe cold calling and spamming are the kinds of marketing and customer acquisition tactics that a reputable company would undertake.

Bargepole Mandatory.

DING DING DING "Alarm Bells" They have changed there number 01132052855

Oh they are little scamps aren't they.  Probably best to post some cross references.

They use;
0113 252 3070
0113 205 2855
0113 292 6158

Following an email from Sam Wright, I booked an appointment in Leeds and received an email confirmation from Christie Newstead.  My appointment was with a Mr Guyler.
Having researched the company and found this and other review sites, I decided not to leave home at 7am for an 8.30am appointment today.  I drafted an email to cancel the appointment but then thought why should I let them know I would not be attending so that they could scam me!
Surprisingly it makes me feel more confident about my ability to secure a good job through my own endeavours!

Many thanks for the heads-up. Sam mailed me to ask me to meet in Cambridge

0113 292 6158

See their alternate number - different number, same con.

https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/01132052855

Just having read this entire thred, I have just saved myself the anguish on a morning interview with them.  Thanks all!  Really appreciate the heads up.

Got an email from Sam Wright. Quite presumptuous in expecting me to come for a meeting tomorrow - as if they have made up their mind for me that I have nothing better than to believe any email that comes from a Sam, the prince of Nigeria and everyone with a great business opportunity.  I would like to name and shame them on Linkedin.

01132 2052862 is the latest number this company is using. Rachel has worked out a new approach. This company originally contacted me with the approach detailed earlier on this thread ref a meeting in Birmingham. I saw through the scam and quoted them £750 for my consultancy time for the meeting. They disappeared. Today I got a quite clever email from Rachel saying she had been trying to reach me ref a vacancy working for them. She hadn't rung as my phone logs all calls. I e mailed back asking for more details. She rang straight back and was quite impressive with a £100k+ salary and a meeting with her director in (you guessed it) Birmingham. This company has endless pages of complaints and even prosecutions for misselling and data protection violations. I can't find one good post or any iso accreditation. The recommendations on their Web site seem to be written by the same person, with reoccurring grammatical errors. Their pitch is the old one where they build you up with empty promises, commit you to travel then soft sell you into services readily available for free from companies like inguis, Remploy or your local job (prevention) centre (ask for a referral to a specialised company from the job centre). Don't waste your time or money.

As per other posts - Unless your desire is to become financially lighter, this company and the people in it are best AVOIDED!

Mr Martyn Pearce (Senior Consultant)
Apollo Birmingham
I2 Business Centre (serviced offices and virtual office space)
2nd Floor
3 Brindley Place
Birmingham
B1 2JB

Peter Nam  - Business Partner  - 033 33 232 112
www.apolloo-transitions.co.uk

I have received emails from Rebecca Ripley and Katie Falkingham in identical terms but desperate to arrange a meeting with a senior manager by the name of Martyn Pearce who will help me to tap into the unadvertised market to further my career.

I was suspicious as to how this company obtained my details in the first instance as I had never provided them with a copy of my CV and so assume it must have been harvested or stolen from another site.  In addition to the emails I have received 5 calls over a two day period from Katie Falkingham insisting I make contact.

Having research this so called Apollo Group/PCS I am not impressed with its background or track record as it appears to be a method of scamming or extracting money in the guise of offering genuine employment prospects.

The emails are all in a standard format and are very misleading and under no circumstances should they be responded to.

I got an unsolicited contact from Lee Bako asking me to meet Richard Wozniak at "their Castle Donnington office"

Wozniak does not have a visible profile on LikedIn, which made me suspicious. Lee's profile picture shows him celebrating his latest commission cheque with a cocktail, unprofessional and more suspicious, then a search online led me here and to a couple of other, similar reports.

Needless to say, have responded with a "thanks, but no thanks" email

Waste of time. Scrape job boards or buy data from lists of people in order to prey on them.

Read all of the posts here for examples of their company tactics.