Alico
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I recently recieved the following e-mail:
"Dear Applicant,
Your resume on ( www.ihirejobnetwork.com ) was reviewed by our head department for the Administrative job position, The Hiring Desk of Alico company has reviewed your resume and we believe you have the required qualifications to proceed. The positions available are accounting , data entry , customer service and medical billing,The Working hours are from 8am-3pm,Monday-Friday.The starting pay is $25 /hr for this Administrative position, you are also expected to come online through Yahoo Messenger during working hours.
I want you to setup a yahoo messenger and if you got one already use it, add Ms Rhonda Roth the Hiring Manager and IM her on this ID ([email protected] ) asap for the interview/briefing and comprehensive job details.This is our first step to proceed further. She will be online waiting for you.
Best Regards"

During an online interview with Rhonda Roth I was instructed to send $470 for training software. Suspicious of this requirement I contacted MetLife of which Alico is a subsidiary and recieved the following:

Mr. --------,
Do not send any money, this is a scam that is using Alico and MetLife names, if you send any money it will be lost. This is an internet scam along the lines of Nigerian letters or 419 scams, anyone that requests a wire form you for anything should be looked at carefully by you! It just means they want there money before you can figure out it's a scam.

John Vanek
Sr. Investigator
MetLife

I hope this notice will help prevent others from becoming a scam victim.