{"id":535,"date":"2014-12-10T13:51:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T13:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/?p=535"},"modified":"2015-04-09T21:51:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T21:51:39","slug":"cv-appraisal-linkedin-scam-global-resumes-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/cv-appraisal-linkedin-scam-global-resumes-alliance\/","title":{"rendered":"CV Appraisal LinkedIn Scam – Global Resumes Alliance(!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got wind of the ‘Global Resumes Alliance (UK)’ about time someone did something about all those rubbish CV\/Resumes out there, and a global organisation too. Wicked! However, too good to be true and another scam. Trying to take advantage of those genuinely trying to improve their chances of finding or bettering their employment status, something that is both mentally and emotionally challenging. I really hate these scams.<\/p>\n

LinkedIn’s inMail system is normally spam free in the main (they seriously clamp down on ability to mail shot etc) , so this one snuck in sideways. I’m not sure how it got into my inbox. I’ve posted it below in all its pathetic glory:<\/p>\n

\"CV<\/a>
CV Appraisal offer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is a load of nonsense, the profile used to send it ‘Sara Cannon<\/span>‘ is either fake or compromised. The picture is also most likely generic stock photo stolen of the interweb. There is no corporate entity in the UK with the name Global Resumes Alliance (UK) or anything similar.<\/p>\n

Like i’m just so trusting and am going to send my CV to some random email address.<\/p>\n

The one bit of useful info is the domain name of the email address, a quick lookup of resumes-uk.org<\/strong><\/span> reveals a bit of info:<\/p>\n

Registrant ID:HG_27540544
\nRegistrant Name:Christina Taylor<\/strong>
\nRegistrant Organization:Global Resumes<\/strong>
\nRegistrant Street: Far East Finance Building
\nRegistrant City:Singapore<\/strong>
\nRegistrant State\/Province:Singapore
\nRegistrant Postal Code:048979
\nRegistrant Country:SG
\nRegistrant Phone:+65.67295824<\/strong>
\nRegistrant Phone Ext:
\nRegistrant Fax:
\nRegistrant Fax Ext:
\nRegistrant Email:admin@global-resumes.org<\/strong><\/p>\n

Both the Admin and Tech WHOIS details are the same. Potentially you are about to send your info out to Singapore. So who is this Christina Taylor? I’ve not found any information on her. However the address in Singapore is real, but it is a Virtual Office (any decent scam artist will obfuscate)<\/p>\n

The website itself, resumes-uk.org, is fully functional and appears to be hosted in the United States. It is fairly generic and bears some of the warnings of a scam website, it hosts an online shop (please don’t buy anything!) and does not have a contact address or phone number anywhere at all. It only uses PayPal to process payment. Contains generic information and advice, presumably harvested from other sites. Dubious references. It literally takes a couple of hours to put up a website like this.<\/p>\n

DO NOT USE any of the services on offer from RESUMES-UK.ORG, especially if payment is involved. You have been WARNED <\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

What to do now?<\/span><\/h4>\n

Oh, I know I’ll send one of my fake CVs out to the email address and see what reply I get! Will update this post on progress…<\/p>\n

Too see the results of my contact efforts please see the 2nd part to this continuing saga here http:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/?p=570<\/a><\/p>\n

Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn https:\/\/uk.linkedin.com\/in\/<\/span>zulfkar97<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just got wind of the ‘Global Resumes Alliance (UK)’ about time someone did something about all those rubbish CV\/Resumes out there, and a global organisation too. Wicked! However, too good to be true and another scam. Trying to take advantage of those genuinely trying to improve their chances of finding or bettering their employment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[256,255,249,253,254,258,251,177,176,250,259,257,252],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-tfn","tag-christina-taylor","tag-con","tag-cv","tag-cv-appraisal","tag-cv-review","tag-dodgy","tag-global-resume-alliance","tag-inmail","tag-linkedin","tag-resume","tag-resumes-uk-org","tag-sara-cannon","tag-scam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p502c8-8D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zulfikar.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}