Stan Adell interviewed on “The Job Radio Show”

The weekly Job Radio Show provides valuable resources and encouragement to job seekers during this challenging economy. Stan Adell was a guest on the show on 9/28/10 to share how he is working with the Olathe Chamber of Commerce to help job seekers. Here is the intro…

The Job Radio Show hosts Hector Silva and Ron Cooley welcome in studio guest Stan Adell, a member of the Olathe Chamber of Commerce where they have a job seeker program.

Stan Adell is recognized as a computer graphics pioneer in the Kansas City area and provides an important service for businesses and families to have peace of mind from identity theft and legal situations. Adell Associates are active members of several Chambers and networking organizations. Stan was elected to the Board of Directors for the Kansas City Better Business Bureau and has also served on the Board of Directors for RedEcho Group that provides an after-school program to help children learn to make and promote movies through a program called “Let’s make a movie!”

Stan serves on several committees for the Olathe Chamber of Commerce and has helped develop the Career Connection to provide resources and encouragement for job seekers.

We will also have more featured job seekers and our weekly calendar of events from Mark Kempf.

Online resumes can trigger identity theft

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Posted 3/25/2010
By Anita Bruzzese, Gannett

Job seekers beware: An identity thief is trolling the resume waters, just hoping to catch you and your personal information unaware.”People looking for work just don’t realize how susceptible they are,” Heather Galler says. “Having your resume online these days is like the yellow pages for the entire world.”

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Job Seekers Targeted By Identity Thieves

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Fake job ads are up 345% over the past three years, according to one U.K. financial security association.

By Thomas Claburn,  InformationWeek
March 5, 2009
URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=215800622

Job seekers beware. Identity thieves are looking to steal personal information from those searching for employment.

Fake job ads are up 345% over the past three years, according to the U.K. Association for Payment Clearing Services, and the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) warns that would-be workers should be careful about providing personal information to purported employers.

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ID theft scam preys on job-hunters

ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 20 (UPI) — Florida authorities are investigating a suspected global identity theft ring that allegedly targeted a local business and job-hunters. Steven Miguel told the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel the racket came to light when job-seekers across the country started calling about help-wanted ads that his construction-project management company, Design 2 Keys, had never posted. The firm tracked a scheme that uses stolen corporate information to cheat hundreds of thousands of job-seekers, Miguel said. It uses fake Web sites, bulk e-mails, phony job applications and bank fraud to steal people’s money and personal data, he said. The scheme includes Russian mailing addresses, Polish e-mail addresses, a German e-mail company and telephone and fax numbers in Washington state, said Miguel’s attorney, who tracked the fake domain names, Web sites and e-mail accounts. Design 2 Keys is suing the alleged thieves, in state court in Orlando, even though the company cannot identify them, for corporate identity theft, computer crime, forgery and racketeering. The FBI would not comment on the case but confirmed a rise in online job scams during the recession, the report said. The Orange County Consumer Fraud Unit said the complaint has been referred to the cybercrime unit of the sheriff’s office. Article…