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TheLadders' Premium Job Board Is A 'Scam,' New Lawsuit Alleges

TheLadders' Premium Job Board Is A 'Scam,' New Lawsuit Alleges

By Vivian Giang Premium job site TheLadders is being sued in a New York federal court on allegations that the company promises users access to exclusive high-paying jobs that don't actually exist. Law firm Bursor & Fisher filed the proposed consumer protection class action suit on Monday on behalf of ...

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Reputed Mobster Michael Scarpacci Goes Legit, Becomes Successful Car Salesman

Reputed Mobster Michael Scarpacci Goes Legit, Becomes Successful Car Salesman

By AOL Autos Michael Scarpaci, a reputed Gambino associate who is about to begin a 25-month sentence after being convicted of a $20 million securities scam, has reinvented himself as quite the successful car salesman. And he's hoping that his newfound skill will help to keep him out of prison, according ...

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Is The Job Posting Worth Applying To? 7 Ways To Tell

Is The Job Posting Worth Applying To? 7 Ways To Tell

By Seth Fiegerman NEW YORK -- There's only so much time you have in a given week to search for jobs, so don't waste it responding to bad job postings. "You really shouldn't spend much time applying to job ads anyway," says Robert Hellmann, a career coach with The Five O'Clock Club, who urges job hunters ...

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Iowa Grocery Clerk Credited With Foiling Scam, Saving Elderly Woman $1,100

Iowa Grocery Clerk Credited With Foiling Scam, Saving Elderly Woman $1,100

An elderly Iowa woman was apparently saved from losing $1,100 after an observant grocery store clerk thought the senior citizen might be the victim of a scam. The clerk, Paul Johnson, was working the customer service counter at a Hy-Vee supermarket in Davenport, Iowa, on Wednesday when the 87-year-old ...

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Teacher Suspended After Being Caught In Facebook Baby Hoax

Teacher Suspended After Being Caught In Facebook Baby Hoax

When Victoria Jones ended her 16-month relationship with Daniel Barberini, she took a particularly vicious, and elaborate, form of revenge, grabbing 82 photos of a friend's newborn girl from Facebook, and telling Barberini that he was the proud father. Two years later, the gig is up. Jones may not have broken ...

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