A handful of our fans alerted me over the past hour or so that six or seven scammy-looking jobs were running on our site and automatically sent out to our Twitter and Facebook accounts. It took an hour or so of back-and-forth with them to figure out which jobs they were concerned about but within a few minutes of receiving the links we reviewed the postings and are pulling them off of our site right now.

As best as we can tell right now, an ad agency misrepresented to us what jobs they wanted to post to our site. They're a well known and at least had been legitimate agency. It appears to me that they decided to cross the ethical line and post these, ahem, jobs to our site in order to make a quick buck at the expense of some of the millions of unemployed and under employed Americans who are suffering through the worst recession since the 1930's. The agency's name was no where to be found on the postings so they only stood to gain a few bucks and suffer no harm to their reputation. We made some money when we thought the postings would be legitimate and suffered some harm to our reputation but the real victims here are those who can least afford to be: the job seekers who may have been suckered into these "opportunities."

I just don't get how these scammers sleep at night. Actually, I hope they don't. Jerks.