02072343560

Also just realised the other week I got some emails from Kathryna Clark!
"Dear Applicant,

We are glad to inform you that after careful look at your CV for the post of Receptionist our company advertised, you have been shortlisted to join our new team in London. There will be 2 day induction and training which will start on the 12th and end on 13th of July 2012 from 10am to 4pm each day at 5, Exchange Square, London EC2A 2EH. The two day training will be fully paid for and you are expected to come with your original documents.


Passport /Birth Certificate/ID card (showing your right to work in the UK)
Utility bill (showing current address)
N.I number
Bank/Building Society/Local Post Office details (for your wages)
The Confidential Application Form (print out)


The pay rate for this position will be £10.25hr. Full time and part time positions with morning and night shift to choose from,  you will be paid every forth night(two weeks). The company will issue you a uniform on the induction/training day and you will be allocated the office site to work in London area.


Please e-mail us back the following, before the 2nd of July 2012
Your uniform size (i.e. Shirt, Trousers and Suit Jacket)
The mode of payment for your CRB checks (Ukash Voucher).


As a result of recent Government changes to the vetting and barring scheme(VBS) the cost of Enhanced CRB check is £50.Due to insurance purposes and our client’s policy  we cannot accept CRB done outside the company. The Ukash is a new safe and secure payment method that we use for effective payment for CRB fees. The newsagent shops and off licence top up shops with a Pay point services can issue you a Ukash voucher for £50. The 19 digits voucher numbers is what we require you to email us back for your CRB payment fees and also to ensure that your job placement is still effective. The CRB fees will only be refunded on your next wages if the report comes back satisfactory. The company will delist your name from the job placement list if we do not receive your uniform sizes and the Ukash voucher numbers.


The deadline for the submission by email of your uniform sizes and £50 Ukash voucher numbers for your CRB fees will be on the 2nd of July 2012, no work placement will be offered without any of the above and you will not be eligible to come in for the two day training and induction. We are extremely very busy this period and may not be able to respond to your enquiries. We will give you any more information needed on the training/induction day and we are glad to welcome you to our company. Attached is a confidential application form, please print, fill in all relevant sections and bring it with you on the day of induction/training.



Recruit Dep’t
Premier Inn Hotel
Phone/Fax 08453009073"


I soon realised I was made A BCC in this email so I Replied back saying "Hi Kathryna,

I have just received your email and I noticed I was a BCC, so I was
just wondering if this email was actually intended for me. If you
could please let me know.


Many Thanks,


Jade"

to which i got a reply saying " Dear Jade

Thank you for emailing your size details for the uniform.  As job role involves handling of cash and other sensitive documents. It is our company's responsibility to make sure that all employed staff are (CRB) checked, which the cost will be refunded with your first pay cheque. We use Ukash as a secure mode of receiving payment, all you need to do is email the 19 digits of your ukash voucher in your reply. Ukash can be bought in any news agent, off licence or corner shops near you.

Awaiting your response to enable us complete the CRB form.

Regards
Sam
Recruit Dpt"


I then went to the job centre spoke to an adviser about it and she let me call them from the phone, we sat there in position 1 on hold for 45 minutes, I then googled the number (08453009073) which obviously came up on a website saying it was a scam !!

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My email came from one Jaimini Mistry at Monster Marketing. Seems like this operation has more heads that the Hydra. Seems dodgy, or rather seems like it wouldn't be worth it unless you're a top top seller, which I'm not and which you have to be to make money on commission only. I have been invited to interview in Central London on 17th Jul but I think I'll save the train fare...

I went to the monster marketing direct interviews and got the job to later find that it was door 2 door sales, went to my first day of training and was away from 8am never got a break and had not ate a thing all day and did not get home until 11pm and I made a few sales to later find out I would not be getting paid for. They told me in the interview that the hours would be 11am to 8pm and never mentioned anything about being commission based only. It was like doing slave labour.
I wish businesses like this would put on their job advertisements that the job is commission based only and that it is door 2 door sales. Their advertisements are so misleading.

I also got another call today from YFR ltd to come for an interview, I do not know whether to go or not? Is it the same things as Monster marketing. I do not want to do door 2 door sales or work on commission?

Kiera

Well look at yfr staff e.g
http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/ben-lapham/18/662/165?_mSplash=1

Then use the right hand side to view
Viewers of this profile also viewed...
Some more interesting companies :)

And then compare notes On company house for any of those names and or companies
E.g
http://company-director-check.co.uk/director/906105246

You might find a pattern, which will enable you to decide ?

Beware!
Somewhere out there
Spinning it's way across the worldwide web
Is a great big enormous
SPIDER

And your just a fly in his web .

And then you might want to do a search on any of the addresses
E.g
YORKSHIRE BANK CHAMBERS
MARKET SQUARE
RETFORD
DN22 6DQ

http://www.thecompanything.com/RegisteredAddress/DN22%206DQ/1

And you will get an even bigger picture.

Yes, YFR is commissioned based only.

Door 2 door sales and telesales (cold calls) are not easy jobs.

Be careful too of other companies calling themselves "brokers" or junior broker positions",
Capital Vintners, for example, are ruthless in recruiting through Success moves agency,
they will sack you within days, even tho they say you have a job. No pay at all during training or any time to get sales from cold calls to sell "fine wines".

Good luck with job hunt, it is a recession and many online companies are exploiting unemployed young people , school leavers and jobless grads.

Try the reputable companies like John Lewis, M&S and Tesco, these offer real jobs and proper training for real jobs and careers :)

Thank you for your helpful information.

It is good for people to know what sort of businesses they are dealing with.
Good research advice. Same to the others who offered links for people to check before going to these "job interviews" and accepting these "jobs".

Omg! I got this yesterday and got really excited as I'm from the North about to move to London but I did not remember applying for the Job. Lydia rang me up too actually asking me to start next week? But I really do not remember applying for this job..... (Weird)

Commission jobs pay you on the amount of sales you create. Some jobs pay part commission and part wage where you get a steady wage, but more money if you sell more. The more you sell, the more money you will get as "commission" and that is a major advantage. There is no end to how much you can earn in a commission job.

Commission jobs can help you make bad decisions, as your paycheck is dependent on it. I will never get paid that way again. I prefer to sleep well knowing I didn't screw anyone including myself. There are drawbacks that include not getting paid becasue of various criteria the company set up. Such as because they couldn't finance a customer, collect from a customer, someone else in the company screwed up the job you sold, the company is unethical and doesn't pay you.

I suggest anyone who is considering taking a leap into a commission job to start with a Base + Commission job rather than commission only. It's just too risky to begin with commission only. Once you get accustomed to selling and your comfortable closing and with the entire sales process in general then you're ready for commission only.

Commission only sales jobs also come with some serious disadvantages. No financial guarantees exist in this payment set-up. In other words, the amount you earn each month depends entirely on how successful you are with your sales for that period. If you have a bad month and make only a few sales, you can expect a very small paycheck. Worse still, if you fail to make any sales, then you have zero income for that pay period. Straight commission jobs pose a big risk in this regard, especially for inexperienced sales reps who have yet to learn how to maximise their productivity.On top of this, commission only sales representatives are usually treated like independent contractors , self employed (please see below links)  rather than employees. They may not be entitled to any benefits eg , housing etc if they are suddenly let go, and they may also be responsible for their own business expenses, such as travel and home office expenditures.
So think before you sign anything.

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/w ... tax/dg_10016920

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/moneytaxandbenefi ... gtax/dg_4015975

http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/fraud_protection/phoenix_company_fraud

It isn't that bad.

Someone's trying to something about it . Sign away

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/33858

Can everyone please sign the petition above and report it because it's simply appalling what all these companies are doing, and it's time to put a stop to this!

SSC marketing in Manchester.. Do not trust them they are scamming you! All the above comments apply to me, everything everyone has mentioned basically happened to me too! I stayed for about one week, spent around £100 if not more, on transport as they do not pay for it, I even had to pay £15 for a train ticket to Preston and back from Manchester for my second round 'Observational interview' and probs made around £40 the whole week as the commission is only like 20% or something daft! To add to this i was getting up at 5am to get into work for 7:45 to run around like a headless chicken for the whole morning perfecting the five stage 'scripted' speech!! Also a warning to anyone considering it, on my last day I cried in the bathroom to myself as i didnt know what to do, i felt so out of my comfort zone and just wanted to get out of there.. One lady that had been there a while and was a 'mentor' as they call themselves tried calming me down and i think she made a mistake and told me something she shouldn't had.. she said 'when you actually get past the 3 stage of training, you are not actually guaranteed the management position, you have be assessed and come under their actual standards to complete the training' therefore this was the last straw for me and i decided to leave.. The reason it is commission based, and there is no real contract is quite easily seen to be because they can not then get into trouble or get done for unfair dismissal because it is not an actual job in the first place.. it is ONE BIG SCAM!!! BE AWARE!!! X

I totally agree with this!! they made me ill.. and it is simply brainwashing people its awful they can think they can get away with scamming people!

I totally agree with this!! they made me ill.. and it is simply brainwashing people its awful they can think they can get away with scamming people!