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A few days ago, I post a job on the job blog about this company called Web On Media. Yesterday I got 2 messages about this company and people were asking me to remove the post because of the fraudulent nature of the job positing and the underlying relationships. Because I want to make sure everyone knows about this company, I added some info to the job post, which does not seem to be enough. I am posting today new and more exhaustive information about this company and their so-called Internship position which has been posted in Vancouver recently. If you have been victim, please send more info to or simply comment on this post. Here is all the info below. Thanks!

Hello, I live in Minnesota, I too have been scammed by this Web on Media “company.” Fortunately, I’ve been in the game long enough to know a scam when it comes my way so I was able to steer clear of this scam with my time being my only loss. I saw an Ad on Craigslist that they had put for a “summer internship” position in web design for $20/hour. I checked out their website and it looked legit so I sent them a few paragraphs detailing my background and attached my resume. 2 days later I received an e-mail from them saying that I had passed the initial pre-selection and had moved on to the 2nd and final stage of the recruitment process.

Turns out that the final stage of the process entails signing up for the Intuit web design program to build a sample website and send it to them(which right there threw up red flags for me since what company would ask you to pay for software in order to fulfill their recruitment process, that and any monkey can build a website with Intuit, it’s designed to allow people that know nothing about web design to make websites).

On top of that they also wanted me to sign up for a telephone forwarding service and justified it by saying “as part of your internship you will have to make phone calls with clients and you will need a business phone.”

At this point I already knew it was a scam but I decided to respond to their e-mail anyway telling them that I was not interested in spending any money or signing up for any “free trials” in order to move forward with the recruitment process. That was 5 days ago, haven’t heard back from them since.

I hope this information is of help to you. Thanks! Jared

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English translation will follow.

L’agence de marketing electronique Skooiz de Montréal rapporte sur son blogue une histoire asser invraisemblable. En effet, le chirurgien plastique français, vient d’être radié de l’ordre des médecins pour cause de « détournement de clientèle ». Le docteur en question mettait les noms de ces confrères médecins dans les balises Meta de son site web, technique qui lui permettait de ressortir en très bonnes positions sur les moteurs de recherche.

Si vous prévoyez utiliser cette technique pour attirer du traffic de vos competiteurs sur votre site, vous savez maintenant ce qui vous attend.

The Montreal Search Marketing agency Skooiz reports on its blog a very interesting story. A French doctor, has just been banned from his Doctor accreditation association because he was using his competitors search terms in the Meta tags (meta description & meta keywords tags). He was accused of directing clients to his website that were not rightfully his. If you were thinking about using this technique, known as Spamindexing, to drive more traffic to your site, be careful about what could happen.

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