Those BASTARDS!

I get woken up this morning by a phone call from a company calling themselves BNL Express. The woman on the phone tells me that she received my resume about a position in my career field in Denver, Colorado. She wants to tell me more about the position and ask me a few questions. Each statement she makes ends with, "Okay?"

So, going on about two to three hours of sleep, I listen as she describes my freaking dream job. Okay? For $18 an hour. Okay? Exactly where I want to be. Okay? She tells me what I need to do for the next step of the hiring process. Okay? Go online and fill out the application/contractual agreement and fax it back before noon tomorrow to 1-267-653-1757. Okay? After that someone will call me and explain the next step. Okay?

Of course, I'm all nods and smiles on the phones. After a while, I begin to say, "Okay." like a freakin' parrot. I think, this is too good to be true.

*sigh*

I go to the website and the first thing that catches my eye (how can it not) is the creepy little automated chick that starts talking as soon as the page loads, telling you where to go to fill out the contractual agreement. Mind you, this is the HOME PAGE. I say creepy because, if you take your cursor, and move it around, her eyes follow your cursor. Try it. Hmmmm.... I forgot to see if she crosses her eyes if you point at her nose.

Anyway, you click on the contractual agreement, and it is a phisher's dream. Asking for your SSN, Driver's license (under the guise of I-9 and other such employment forms), etc., banking information (for direct deposit), plus a few standard questions like um.... date of hire? Go ahead. Pick a date. Any date.

I checked out the rest of the website, trying to figure out just what it was they did and didn't get too good of a clue, cuz the "home page" refers to financial services, but then the rest of the site refers to "errand running" type crap, all the way down to an escort-type looking service.

On the FAQ page, they forgot to answer the apparently most frequently asked question (upon further research later), which was "Is BNL Express a legit company?" The plain and simple answer I seemed to find (now anyone can correct me if I'm wrong) is no. I even found one specific example of someone who claimed to have had their identity stolen because they had submitted the information requested and had gone through eight separate (failed) trials to try to correct erroneous items caused by this. Can you say "not a happy camper"?

In any case, the result of all of this was me standing in the middle of my kitchen this morning with my hands clenched in the air screaming, "No!!!!!!!!!" when Strings walked in this morning. Can't a gal get a break?

If... if anyone can prove to me that BNL Express is a legitimate business that is opening a branch location in the Denver area, please, PLEASE, PLEASE let me know before noon tomorrow! :s