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I responded to an ad on Facebook for "call center monitoring" offering $40 per call to assess insurance calls. Part of the screening process required you to make and assess an actual call to an insurance company. Upon completion of that call, you were to receive instructions on how to be an actual employee and start receiving payment. Thinking it was a scam, but hopeful that it wasn't, I did the test call and reported back the findings like they asked.

Then - nothing. No follow up email. No instructions on how to continue to work. The website even says that they'll pay you for the test call. I've sent emails for follow up and no one responds.

So, last night, I had the epiphany that I bet this is a real company some place that does real call center monitoring for clients, but instead of actually paying people to do the work, they place these ads and make victims like myself do these "test" calls that are real calls and then use our assessments for their own profit, never hiring anyone and never paying anyone. I googled the company and the domain name is relatively new so they probably keep changing domain names to keep luring in people. I also found other complaints about programs and offers with similar names that did "hire" people but then sent them fake checks for payment for the work they did, so again - they got all of the work done for free. Be very careful.

I'm glad I had the gut feeling that this wasn't legit and that I'm not relying on them for employment. I am going to keep doing digging and I will report the ad on Facebook, too, but I have a feeling they'll just keep baiting people and creating fake websites to look like they are a legit company. I am thinking about calling the insurance company later and tipping them off, too, to the fact that there are people tying up their phone lines with these "test" calls.