Consumer Fraud Reporting

Reporting on the Latest Frauds, Scams, Fake Lotteries, Spams and Hoaxes

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Unsolicited Job Emails - Example: Liberty National Recruiting

Do you receive job offers or requests for job interviews (out of the blue) from Liberty National Recruiting or other companies you don't know? It's no surprise if you do. There appear to be two different scams or at least, misrepresentations, going:

The scum that push all kinds of internet frauds, such as identity theft and pyramid schemes (aks, "multi-level marketing") have caught the spam craze and are now soliciting new victims by harvesting email addresses (usually from jobs websites, like Monster.com, Dice.com, HotJobs, CareerBuilder, etc.). See this page for examples of this type of email.
Now a company that calls itself "Liberty National Recruiting" is bombarding people who place their resumes on the jobs websites with emails claiming to offer jobs. The email is very vague and ambiguous. The company has been evasive and unresponsive to requests to stop sending the emails, and sending the emails to people who post resumes on job boards, particularly Monster.com, apparently with little regard to the person's resume or stated career goals. They can avoid meeting a legal definition of Spam because, by posting your resume, you have agreed to be contacted! But this is SLEAZY even if it isn't illegal. See below:

Liberty National Recruiting

Here's what we have discovered:

Although they hide their true identity behind the name "Liberty National Recruiting", making them sound like a traditional recruiting company, we've discovered they're part of Liberty National Life Insurance Company, which is owned by Torchmark Corporation.

How to stop the spam emails from Liberty

They didn't respond to our phone or email requests to stop spamming. The "unsubscribe" link did nothing for us. We recommend you file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau, it is free and easy to do online. Just fill out the simple form on this page: https://odr.bbb.org/odrweb/public/GetStarted.aspx If you get a security announcement, just click OK and then "next" and fill out the form with the information from Liberty's email!

UPDATE (April 2008): We haven't heard any complaints in more than a few months now, so we have pulled the related pages on this topic.

If you have any experience with Liberty National Recruiting, please email us to tell us about it!

For More Information

The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint or to get free information on consumer issues, visit www.ftc.gov or call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357); TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to hundreds of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.