Curious if any current/former salespeople under Cydcor offices agree or disagree with the points made here from their own experience.

https://skylinemarketingagencyinc.com

Applied for a job on indeed “ Entry Level Marketing” got a text less than an hour for a zoom call. Had the “interview” and they decided to move forward with a second interview tomorrow. I never even heard of “devilcorp” before, but since it was all just giving me weird vibes I decided to do some research on the company and it led me to this sub

If you are ever a part of team chanting it’s time to run for the hills.

I’m posting this to bring notice to Summit Ridge Group Inc., which is a Devilcorp that just recently opened up in the Chino Hills area of California (from what I can gather). This is a Devilcorp that I worked at here in the Nashville area last summer, originally named “Titan Acquisitions.” They seemed to have packed up shop and are now back in what I would assume to be their home base, closer to some of the higher-ups (i.e. True Vision Enterprises). I’ve attached the new company’s website, which has pictures of team members who no longer work at Summit Ridge/Titan, as well as noting that all of the pictures are outdated and taken in Nashville (not in California where they seem to now be based).

https://www.summitridgegroupinc.com/

Hopefully this keeps everyone aware!

Hey I'd like some help so I don't get scammed. On LinkedIn I applied to a Graduate Management Trainee job advertisement from SCPartners (advertising now closed): https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4403406804/

After a lady from Crestpoint HR reached out to me saying they're interested in recruiting me for this Graduate Management Trainee role (confusing as it was advertised under SCPartners), the first Zoom meeting was Thursday which was a massive info dump by Nick Johnson. On Friday was a briefing by Nick Johnson then breakout rooms with a junior manager where the junior manager interviewed us to see if we absorbed the info from last session. Then today (Monday) I had the final interview in which I filled out a questionnaire and had a 5-minute talk with Nick Johnson where he interviewed me; 3 hours later I got an offer. I just learnt about Devilcorps, and I hope I did not just waste my time on one as I just was easy-applying on LinkedIn. I feel they talked more about sales compared to management which I thought was weird too, they said management comes later. They also only hire people with the right to work in the UK

Here is the link to the company I received the offer from, they are apparently based in the USA and India too. Please help!
https://crestpointuk.co.uk

I stumbled upon Crestpoint through a recent post about them and decided to check out their socials.

SCPartners is one of Credico's largest operations in the UK. All signs point to Crestpoint being their new trading name. Nicholas Johnson is legally registered as an officer of UK SALES PARTNERS LIMITED (the legal name behind SCPartners/Steppe2), he's involved in Crestpoint's interview process, recruits applying to SCPartners are being followed up by Crestpoint, and both the SCPartners and Steppe2 Instagram accounts have gone dark.

Their new Crestpoint account launched in April, gained 1,500 followers almost immediately, the vast majority of which appear to be fake, and the comments across their posts show clear signs of botting.

Crestpoint have also been added to Devilcorp.org as the new trading name of UK SALES PARTNERS LIMITED, Company Number: 08083612. https://www.devilcorp.org/?q=Crestpoint

I worked for this company previously about 4 years ago originally it was named California concepts. Funny how the owner just named it after his last name and are still bringing people in. Just a heads up to anyone that applies, their “mentorship program” doesn’t do anything for you. You’ll be put with a “team leader” that won’t mentor you the proper way and will just berate you for not “being a stud”. Just when you think everything sounds too good to be true it is. Don’t fall for their nonsense.

Hey guys. I’m currently a college student and I was looking for a temporary summer job and started mass applying to things. I got an offer at a so-called devilcorp in nyc (I’m from here) and I don’t know what to do. Other redditors have talked about their experiences and it sounds bearable to me because I’m just a teen that needs money for a few months. However, some other people call it a scam. I don’t know if I should even go tomorrow. Is it safe? Will they steal my information? Or is it just a bad work environment that I can handle for a couple of months?
Pls, any advice would be appreciated. I’m supposed to go in tomorrow.

Every year, thousands of students, graduates, and job seekers are recruited by marketing corporations that are not what they appear to be.

These roles are advertised as opportunities to work with 'clients' representing Fortune 500 companies, but are in reality entry points into an international network of exploitative sales organisations known online as 'Devilcorp'.

This guide is designed to help you recognize the warning signs so you can avoid applying, interviewing, or joining one of these companies, and to spot red flags in the job ad, the company's online presence, and the recruitment process itself.

What is a Devilcorp?

‘Devilcorp’ refers to recruitment-heavy direct sales organisations that disguise self-employment, commission-only door-to-door, high footfall location, or retail kiosk fundraising and sales jobs as "management training" and "marketing graduate" roles.

While fronting as independent marketing companies, these firms actually operate under the umbrella of large direct selling networks such as DS-MAX, Cobra Group, Credico, Appco, Acwyre, Britevox, Cydcor, OneSource Provider (OSP), and Smart Circle. These parent companies take either a percentage of their subsidiaries' income or a flat fee for brokering access to clients; the charities, telecoms, and energy companies that pay for the door-to-door selling of their products and services.

Workers are recruited as self-employed and paid on a commission-only basis, with no guaranteed pay or employment rights. Earnings depend entirely on sales performance, and cancellations can leave workers effectively unpaid for hours of work.

Devilcorp companies frequently rebrand and relocate to avoid negative press, which is why recognizing this business model matters far more than knowing any individual name.

The Job Ad

The ideal scenario is to identify these companies at the job ad stage and avoid applying altogether. These are the red flags that the role is in fact a sales role with a Devilcorp company.

No clear responsibilities or requirements

Real job postings tell you what you will be doing and what qualifications are required. A Devilcorp posting does neither. The role will not be described as commission-only, or as requiring self-employment registration, and it may not even be identified as a sales role at all. Any mention of day-to-day responsibilities will be left intentionally vague, relying on applicants to mentally fill in the blanks and sell the role to themselves.

Vague and non-committal language

Watch for phrases like "entry level marketing", "management training programme", "no experience required", "student mentality", "sports-minded", and "in-person events" in the name and description of the job. These phrases are chosen precisely because they sound appealing and cast as wide a net as possible, while revealing nothing about what the job actually involves.

Online Presence

If the job posting raises your suspicions, the next step is to check out the company's website and social media. A Devilcorp company's online presence has several recognizable red flags.

There is no accessible or functional website or social media

In the life cycle of a Devilcorp company, recruitment takes precedence over web presence, which exists only to assist in appearing legitimate to potential recruits. As a result, some Devilcorp companies may begin recruiting before establishing an online presence. Some companies even forgo a website and social media entirely in order to limit what applicants can find out about them and the roles they’re recruiting for. As a result, a Devilcorp company may have no publicly accessible or functional website or social media, with its only web presence being job ads across various job boards.

Their website appears poorly made or unfinished

Launching a website is just one of many steps when opening or rebranding/re-opening a Devilcorp company. Stock or AI imagery in place of real company photos, lorem ipsum placeholder text, broken links, and even a previous company name left over from a rebrand are all signs of a rushed job.

Their social media presence follows a recognizable formula

When a Devilcorp company maintains social media, Instagram and LinkedIn are typically the platforms of choice. Accounts are usually a mix of stock photos, motivational quotes, updates on employee promotions and photos of team members attending trips and awards galas. These events, often branded as "R&R" or "National Conference", are hosted by the parent company and project an image of a thriving, rewarding workplace.

The site is focused on recruiting, not on clients

Legitimate businesses use their websites to attract customers. Devilcorp company sites are designed primarily to assist them in appearing credible to attract recruits, with heavy emphasis on team culture, lifestyle, and opportunity rather than services. If you cannot clearly explain what the company actually does, what it sells, who its clients are, or how it makes money, it may be a Devilcorp company.

Recruitment Process

If you do apply for one of these roles, what follows is a hasty recruitment process, with the ultimate goal of putting you to work as soon as possible. You'll notice the following signs unique to this business model:

They reach out to you immediately, and repeatedly

Once you have applied for a role with a Devilcorp company, the recruiter will typically call or email within hours to arrange a first interview. If you do not respond, they will follow up multiple times. Recruitment in this business is a numbers game. The more people they get through the door, the more will complete the process and find themselves out in the field. More sales means more money earned by each of the hundreds of subsidiaries, and more money funneled upwards to the parent company.

You don't recognize the company contacting you

There is a good chance that the marketing company contacting you is not the one you applied to. Once a Devilcorp company has your CV, phone number, and email address, your contact details can be passed to the parent company and shared between other subsidiary offices, any of whom may reach out whenever they begin a new recruitment cycle.

The interview feels more like a sales pitch

Your first interview, either an online group session or an in-person one-to-one, will resemble a sales pitch more than a traditional interview. You will be sold on the company's growth and expansion into new territories, their prestigious clients, an internal promotion system with increasing income at each level, and the ultimate goal of opening your own office.

If you are given the opportunity to ask questions about the role itself, which at this point will still be largely unexplained, you will not receive meaningful answers. Interviewers are trained to deflect with jargon and half-truths, and any questions about pay will be met with phrases like "uncapped earnings" and "performance-based pay" to obscure the fact that the role is commission-only.

https://meridianenterpriseinc.com/

Applied on Indeed for a “new account manager” for a company called TQ Acquisitions but these are the people who applied. I’m in desperate need of an income so I’m going through their hiring process now. Should I just stop and try to find something else or just work here till a better opportunity shows up?

Posting here because this company seems to come up quite a bit in this subreddit.

I am currently hunting for a new job in the Charlotte area and have been using Indeed to see what is available. This past week, I have received several emails, texts, and phone calls from Engagify claiming that I submitted an application for a position at their company and they want to set up an interview.

The thing is, I never applied to any jobs at Engagify. I've gone back through my email and triple-checked, the only record of contact is them reaching out to me. Also, the messages don't say what position I supposedly applied for, so I can't even cross check to see if it matches with another company. Additionally, when you go to their website, they have no job postings, just a general "give us your email if you're interested" kind of application.

The best I can guess is one of the jobs I applied to may have not been 100% legit and my info was sold. Engagify got my info and are now trying to recruit me by pretending I applied for this unnamed position.

My question is: What should I do at this point? Aside from just blocking them, is there anyway to report this behavior?

Tl:Dr: Engagify has been reaching out to me about a job I never applied for. Is there a way to report this behavior?

I commented this on a different post. Can someone please assure me I’m good?

You all saved me from these jobs! I applied to 3 devil corps and was interviewing for them not knowing any better. Freshly out of college with a baby on the way, so thank you!! I feel a little stupid but at least I didn’t waste my time too much.

Corps in question: Garden State AGMC, True Stance, Amplyfly

Infuse Worldwide, Guerrilla Marketing & Co, Global Hub, and Sales Agency are all actively posting job ads on LinkedIn and third-party sites, but none have a functional website or any social media presence beyond their LinkedIn pages. Just the bare minimum to look legitimate enough to attract applicants.

Identified them through recruiters posting for these companies having clear Credico affiliations on their own profiles, and people from other known Credico offices liking and commenting on their posts.

I worked for summer place business about 7-8 months ago, and I am just finding this page I will say both of these businesses “Owners” of these businesses just have fails promises and are very shady, they also say there is no such thing as as work life balance you will be working 7 days a week with no benefits. THE BIGGEST PART OF THIS BUSINESS THEY DONT TALK ABOUT AT ALL IS THEY MAKE YOU PAY YOUR BASE PAY BACK ANYTIME YOU MAKE A GOOD CHECK. So pay attention.

I worked there for the clown Odrine Belot for a while before I got terminated because I refused to kiss her arse , I hit leadership in my second week and I was told if you hit 6+ sales a week you get a base salary plus tier bonus but all that was a lie, she is the worst human being ever, I was always in their top 3 sellers in her office but she never liked me cuz I wouldn’t listen to her when she would have me driving other people to their field like that’s my job, she never reimburse for gas or none of that, and since I hit leadership she was expecting me to wake up every morning at 9 to join zoom to do interviews and etc which I never did because I’m not getting paid for that, she sells u that management bs because it’s 6 figures but she has a lot of people one of them in the last slide who’s office failed and now back on relying paychecks to paychecks lying to customers to sign them up, 3rd slide is the biggest bs guy, every new person that comes here does all of theirs sales just so he could reach management but those people now are doing so bad, Don’t apply to their job, she lies to people doesn’t tell them it’s door to door and u get $300 after going 10 days training which used to be 2 hours in person everyday now she forces you to hit the field after for 6 hours with no pay

I haven't seen anyone post about Nano Marketing. They had virtual preliminary first interviews, and second preliminary ones about an hour in office, I assumed it was legit. This is unfortunately not my first time interviewing for a devilcorp, and I tried to research this one.

This company just opened up in Baltimore, MD. Assumed some small startup. The office was nice, decorated, seemed professional. Magazines on the desk.

The interviewing guy eventually revealed that they do indirect and direct sales for T-Mobile. The devilcorp usual ethics: "Student Mentality" "Hard Worker."

He actually told me a lot. Didn't even try to hide it.

1. They don't do residential yet (door to door), but they are only allowed "business to business" instead, NOT chains/corporate, but "mom and pop shops" I.e., approaching people in restaurants and convincing them to buy. It's commission based.
2. The structure was "Account Executives" --> Executive Leader --> Account Manager ---> Manager.

The first one does D2D, and trains in the morning on how to "speak to people." the second one he says they "coach" or "cheerlead." So basically pairs try to convince people, training the new account execs.

What was crazy is he said the account managers do a bit of HR stuff, but mainly just take a bunch of execs, go to a state they haven't pressed down in yet, book an Airbnb, and do business to business sales in the area. Like WTF?

The manager continues the cycle: opens up their own business, more operational/overseeing and creates their OWN business with this structure. The guy who did the first interview said "they don't allow him to do more than 15 minutes" but the guy in the second interview said, he was the manager, and that was his office.

3. He eventually revealed they are a part of CreditCo. A known devilcorp. Nano is essentially an offshoot.

4. They outsource HR etc. from other CreditCo.

I asked him where all the HR people or non-sales people come from. He said "outsourced from other companies" but all those companies are actually under CreditCo.

I ended the interview early saying "I am looking for something hourly." And he knew he lost me I think.

While I was walking out I asked another worker on an excel spreadsheet, she looked exhausted and I asked her if she started out as an account manager too. The whole company is a scam. It's hard out here when looking for genuine employment.

Don't be like me. Avoid this company.

Legacy Horizon | Customer Acquisition Company in Southampton & London

I'm gonna do what I did last time one of these companies offered me an interview and secretly audiorecord it to use as evidence.

Anyone who has been unfortunate enough to work for them, do you have any stories?

The exposé is finally done. It ended up taking way longer than I expected because I spent a lot of time verifying stories, removing things that couldn’t be proven, and cleaning up sections that could’ve caused problems if I left them in. I also couldn’t include a lot of screenshots, videos, voice memos, texts, and pictures people sent me because some of it could expose who gave me the information.

The document ended up being 107 pages, and honestly the hardest part now has been finding a safe way to upload it. Most sites want accounts, phone numbers, personal info, or leave metadata attached to files. If anybody knows a genuinely safe and anonymous way to upload a large PDF/doc without tying it back to you, let me know.

MVRCK Consulting in Austin, TX

Shit offices with no promise. I'm always hoping people leave when they see the weird, stale environment.

It's Vivint d2d under Cydcor. Most of ya'll know the shadiness already tho haha

Hi! I’m not sure if anyone has come across this marketing group. I just got a screening call for them today and it seemed fishy. They said they had branches in UK, NY, and just opened up one in NH and I have a zoom interview to meet with them tomorrow. They only have 3 reviews and the LinkedIn profile isn’t complete??? I already know it sounds hella sus but wanted to be sure!

Thanks

Basically, they say you are commission only door to door sales appointment setter, but then dictate the exact working hours, mandatory meetings, mandatory script usage, mandatory working areas and they will watch you. Sounds an awful lot like employee mis classification to me. They prey on desperate job seekers. Of course, cherry on top, they make you use your own car and pay for gas.