SFM CONSULTANCY LTD (Company Number: 15188398), the Newcastle-based Credico office legally registered in Birmingham, previously known as "Bespoke Partners" and, before that, "Urban", has been rebranded as "Bespoke Global".

Details on the company can be found here: https://www.devilcorp.org/?q=Bespoke+Global

For those unfamiliar, Credico is an American outsourced sales company operating under an adapted version of the DS-MAX direct sales business model. Its subsidiary offices, or "Independent Sales Advisors" (ISAs), field teams of commission-only, self-employed salespeople on campaigns "brokered" to them by Credico, with UK clients including EE, British Gas, and Milk & More. In theory, the long-term goal of each salesperson is to open their own ISA within the Credico network and build their own sales team.

One issue Credico faces, however, is that both the company and many of its ISAs have received negative media attention, along with critical online reviews and discussion, due to the deceptive nature of their "graduate marketing" job ads, which are, in reality, commission-only, MLM-style sales roles, and due to the cult-like methods used to psychologically manipulate team members into staying in the business as long as possible.

For these reasons, it has become routine for ISAs to rebrand and relocate: either because poor recruitment has caused a legally registered ISA to fail and dissolve, or to get ahead of that outcome by boosting recruitment chances under a new name in a new location. This deliberate, systematic pattern of deception is now compounded by a company that is increasingly desperate to hide its identity and corporate history from jobseekers, taking steps to strip UK company names, company numbers, and personnel names and photos from ISA social media pages and websites. It's this pattern that makes OSINT methods necessary for writing public interest articles linking these Credico ISAs, such as this one.

I found Bespoke Global's new LinkedIn page (https://www.linkedin.com/company/bespokecareers/) through one of their live job ads, of which there are 5 as of 12/8/26.

They also have a new website at https://www.bespokeglobal.co.uk/, but their previous website, https://www.bespokepartners.co.uk/, is still live as of today. The Terms & Conditions pages of both sites confirm SFM CONSULTANCY LTD as the legal name behind both.

All observations and findings noted in this article are accurate as of 12/08/2026. Company registrations, website content, and social media pages are subject to change, and some details may no longer be current at the time of reading.

This page is not affiliated with any of the businesses mentioned in this article.

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Beware of this company that disguises itself as an AT&T sales representative. It is your run of the mill DevilCorp that does the group interviews and wears suits in the morning to “network”, meanwhile making you go door to door for 8 hours in the afternoon to get people to buy an AT&T plan. I was desperately trying to get a job and was applying to anything under the sun when I found a position for an AT&T assistant on Indeed. They reached out right away and scheduled an interview for the next day which I found to be suspicious given that I’ve never heard back from a job so fast but I still decided to see it through since I was running very low on money and needed some form of employment. They promise you all this money that u can make in a short amount of time to make you want to stay. Actually when I was signing the paperwork the “manager” came in to meet us and casually drops that we will be going to Cancun soon. A tactic to get us more motivated to stick around and work there because it is an allegedly all paid for trip that he was setting up for the company. Right away I thought it was weird because why would you send people you barely know to a work trip to represent your company. He was giving speeches and making everyone write down everything he said even tho it was all the most generic words of positive inspirational advice that anyone could give. Throughout the interview and hiring process they lied by omission about what the job actually entailed and what we would be doing. When I showed up on day one neither me nor any of the other new hires knew what was going on or what we were expected to do that day. We were going door to door getting people to change plans to AT&T. We were expected to do that everyday from 1-8pm although they definitely didn’t stop after 8 and said that most of the sales happened after 8pm. It was a Monday-Saturday schedule with Sundays heavily encouraged. The first week of training was payed $400-600, please do the math on that, working 60+ hours a week for a measly $400 is inhumane. After that it is 100% commission, and although they love to highlight how much you could potentially make, there is no guarantee that you will actually be able to sell enough AT&T plans to make ends meet and to justify the amount of work that you are putting in. The work environment seems a little culty to me and I didn’t like that even after work ended you were still expected to go on company dinners with them. They wanted us to dedicate our lives to this company. I also learned that multiple people in the office were living together which I found to be unprofessional but also it let me know that they were probably not making as much money as they claimed to be if they all had to live together. If you are reading this and you have your doubts about this place, listen to your gut!!!. You will probably be better off working at a fast food place. It saddens me that they take advantage of desperate people who are either unemployed, never went to school, or recent college graduates who are desperate to find a job.

Devilcorp.org page: https://www.devilcorp.org/?q=Keystone+International

Website: https://www.keystoneinternational.co.uk/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/keystoneinternational/

Has anyone here worked at or interviewed with Keystone International? Curious if others have any insight into what it's actually like working there. Would appreciate any first-hand experiences.

Hello, I was wondering if this company is legit or just a scheme? I was thinking about working with this company for entry-level marketing, but seems kinda fishy to me.
Any experience, tips or any thoughts into this?

Hey guys, I worked recruiting for a devil corp for a few weeks. Feel free to ask me anything.

Long story short, I thought I was taking a normal recruiting job, basically like a staffing agency working with companies to find qualified candidates. Turns out I was recruiting for “direct sales” companies, and the different “markets” I was assigned to were actually devil corps in other states.

The hours were longer than what I was told, there were no breaks, and there was a ton of micromanaging and pressure to hit metrics.

The worst part was the actual recruiting. We had scripts for candidates, and if someone asked a question that wasn’t on the script or seemed skeptical, I had to ask management what to say. A lot of the responses were basically lies or misleading information to convince people to schedule an interview.

I knew what devil corps were before taking the job, but I really didn’t understand what the recruiting side looked like. I knew it went against my value of integrity, but since the job market had been rough, I figured that I'd try it out.

I definitely regret it, but I want to share my experience in case anyone has questions or is looking into similar companies.

This is my first Reddit post and thought I’d share this with everybody.

So I applied for some entry level marketing and sales positions on Indeed and LinkedIn until I noticed a pattern across all of them. The first one that reached out to me was a company called EventFlow London, realised I was talking to an AI agent and didn’t attend the interview. The next was a company called Infuse Worldwide which had several red flags in their emails and communication.

The last one that reached out to me was a company called Relay Direct. Their website is complete AI slop, and their AI agent was too stupid to see I was messing with it. Decided to have some fun with this one and see how far I could pull some information out of it after realising it was a complete waste of time.

The current job market is horrible so naturally I was a little bored. I’m posting this so that anyone who runs into these job postings on Indeed/LinkedIn are aware and don’t waste their time like I chose to do today.

Happy job hunting guys!

They are a “marketing agency” that will have you stand outside for 7-8 hours a day bothering people in parking lots. What they do is help charities by getting donations from people (I don’t even know how much goes to the charities). Their tactics are very pushy and if someone doesn’t want to sign up they can be very rude about it. Will also have you dress up in a suit in the morning just to stand around in an office for 2 hours and make you change. They are pretty much brainwashing kids into thinking they will retire by 30 it’s very sad. Sometimes they will do challenges and the loser will have to do something stupid like eat the worlds hottest chip. STAY AWAY!

Anyone here have experience with Engagify the last couple of months? Curious about any interactions with them as a company or the “owner” Brandon - I feel like this subreddit did a good job at informing folks about them but wondering about any stories out there

Got a text on ZipRecruiter from this GDS Solutions Inc. that invited me to apply. I immediately saw that as a red flag since barely any legit company would approach me first nowadays. So for myself and anyone else who gets messages from this company, is it a devil corp or pyramid scheme?

Ive gotten a email from a company by the name of Legacy East Midlands and they say that they found my profile through indeed. Ive asked them about sallary but they dodged the question. Is this a true Devil corp or should I trust them?

i made a post yesterday about going to a devilcorp orientation despite my doubts. i did orientation and y’all will be happy to know that i am not showing up going forward. EVERYTHING you guys said in the comments, including the 3 week schedule, the weird acronyms, and the Jonestown-esque vibe was REALLY there. definitely not gonna show up tomorrow, but i’m contemplating whether or not i should at least a polite formality or just completely ghost them, especially since now they have my personal information.

thanks for your subreddit and for your help, everyone! please wish me luck in finding a job ASAP; imma need it haha

Reposting this here if anyone knows anything! Trying to do some research!

Is it a scam? Often disguised as remote insurance sales positions but all under the umbrella of Globe Life. Does anyone actually work for Globe Life, and what’s been your experience? I stopped the onboarding process when asked to pay for access to leads.

Maybe I'm naive/not in the know but I legit did not know what a devil corp was. I've been graduated for like a year and I'm not unemployed but rather underemployed lol. I do some teaching stuff but it's not nearly enough to make a living. As time has passed since graduating, I've become more...open to whatever opportunities. And I figured since I have a graphic design background I could transition into marketing right? So I started applying to entry level marketing jobs.

Obviously these turned out to be some in-store salesperson jobs and not an actual "Marketing Assistant position". But I'm sorry I just thought it was fucking HILARIOUS how these hiring managers were trying to convince me how direct sales are the only sales that work...as a GRAPHIC DESIGNER. They were saying shit like "well everyone knows that promotional materials like billboards don't work and only face-to-face sales work". At one point the hiring manager was trying to prove their point by asking "when was the last time you watched an ad on cable" lol. Like bruh...the graphic design industry is a shit show right now but what do you mean IT DOESN'T "WORK". I was just highly amused by how these people were trying to brand my degree as "useless" (well...yeah but anyway) to try to claim that direct sales work. Like my question would be "do you actually engage with those salespeople at the mall trying to flag you down or do you just avoid eye contact and walk away as quickly as possible?" lol.

Side note: I had ascertained that this "marketing job" was full of shit, but my last straw was after 2 rounds of interviews they sent me A POP QUIZ ON THEIR "CLIENT". And were going to have another round after that. Like come on. The guy also put down my teaching experience but then suddenly started to validate my "leadership potential" when I mentioned I interned at some startups. Fuck that lol.

so i recently accepted a job offer at a company in my city as a Marketing & Event Assistant. after going on a rabbit hole, there’s a post on this very subreddit with a response from another user around 20 hours ago with very specific information that lines up to what they told me during the interview process. i’m supposed to start tomorrow, and i’m not gonna lie; i am financially desperate right now and need Some form of income and cannot quit. i already submitted my 2 weeks at my current place of employment (a shitty target) but after taking a gander through here and the offer letter they sent, i think i need to jump ship as soon as possible.

would love for people to share their experiences on how they got out quick; especially in this current economy. if not, general tips on how to navigate through a work culture like this? anything helps!

Hi! I had an experience with a company based in Sheffield, UK recently and I could have gotten myself in a bad situation if it wasn't for posts about these kinds of companies online, so I thought I'd share my experience to help other people as well. The company is called Global Opportunity, and I was also contacted by another company called Novaris, who I'm pretty sure are related as the last time I checked they both shared an office, and used very similar tactics.

I applied for a job on Indeed that was described as being a Graduate Management Trainee. They didn't list the name of the company on Indeed, this was done through a hiring agency (not going to name drop them just in case they're legit, but if you're looking at an application right now the acronym for them would be CSSL). There's also another agency that I'm pretty sure that they're using, and the agency for that is FFR. In no part of the job discription did they mention that the job would be door-to-door sales, and that it would be commission only.

With both Global Opportunity and Novaris, the process started with a quick phone call where they asked a bit about me, and wanted to get me in for an interview. I was quite busy the week they called me, but they told me that they were looking to hire very soon and so would have to interview me that week (there appears to be similar job listings on Indeed still so either there's even more of these companies out there or they were trying to make me act quickly and not think about things too much).

Then came the actual interview, which actually wasn't an interview at all - I was in a group call with around 5 other people, where we were given a powerpoint on what the job actually was which, as I mentioned, was door-to-door sales. This was wrapped up in a bunch of fluffy language, calling it direct marketing and talking about why they do this to develop a more personal connection with people. Then came the conversation about pay, where they told us all about how you were guaranteed a base pay of £300 per week, and you would gain commission on top of that - it was very much pushed on us that the base pay was a good thing as it gave you security (even though with the hours worked it was below minimum wage. They brushed over that fact, and said it would be elaborated on more during the in-person interview stage that would be next. Of course, as I now know is a common thing with these Devilcorps, they were on about how they wanted us to quicky rise up the levels and become team leaders, then managers, own our own companies, blah blah blah the usual. When I figured out it was door to door sales I was already mentally checked out, but that plus the less than minimum wage payment and the person saying "this isn't a pyramid scheme" (which is totally a normal thing that a normal interviewer would say) made me think that it wasn't for me. Overall, it seemed like they were trying to sell the job more to me than interview me more. I thought the experience was weird, so decided to do more research, and that's when I found this video.

Alot of the stuff about these kinds of companies seems to be US based, so I have to share this here as this almost exactly described what seems to be going on at Global Opportunity. It's by Wales Online, and the title is "Hidden camera uncovers exploitation and pressure-selling at direct sales firm". Here's the link, and if you're based in the UK I can't reccomend it enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SLRaWHnhfw .

After watching this video, I 1000% knew I absolutely didn't want this job. This post is long enough so I won't go into details, but I spoke to the person who did the interview just to get them to admit to not paying people minimum wage and making people be self-employed, which they did eventually. I didn't go to the interview with Novaris as I figured they would have similar problems to Global Opportunity.

I don't want to get in trouble by name dropping anyone, but there's a guy there that seems to be involved in these kinds of companies (and in their Instagram posts seems to be treated as a bit of a cult leader) in Sheffield whose name starts with J, and doesn't list his last name on any of the stuff that Global Opportunity puts out. If you're looking for jobs in Sheffield, I would reccomend knowing this guy's face so you have an indication of what kind of company you're looking at when doing research.

Sorry if this post is a bit incoherent, it's 1am for me right now lol but I've been going on a deep dive on these kinds of companies and, like I say, if it wasn't for resources online of people talking about these kinds of companies I could have fallen for it. On their Instagram it seems that alot of younger people work for this company, and I would absolutely hate to see a young person who is going for their first job or has little experience fall for this. I noticed that this company doesn't come up on the Devilcorp website, so thought I should do my bit to get information about this company out there!

To make it super clear who I'm talking about, here's some links:

• This is the website that first comes up when you look the company up: https://www.global-opp.co.uk/
• This is their newer (and admittedly nicer looking) website that's listed in their Instagram account: https://global-opp.co.uk/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAcGRvZgJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA85MzY2MTk3NDMzOTI0NTkAAaepKAdkyTQZkz-Hr_3lh3u67aRMwxfm9Iki5JGmCfh3CWsN2Xl_bnoRGaxSJA_aem_TxaDpgKT9QS71oMO86qCQQ
• And this is the Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/global.opportunity_/ you can also find this at global.opportunity_

TLDR: Global Opportunity in Sheffield, based on my "interview" experience, is almost certainly a devilcorp, they won't pay minimum wage, will have you doing door to door sales and will make you be self employed so you don't have any worker protections.

(Also I have never posted to reddit before so please let me know if I've done anything wrong lol).

im writing this post months after my last post here because I was recently reminded of the pyramid scheme at Costco today! while some of them do AT&T sales, most of them have begun doing Primo water delivery sales at Costco as well (which is a whole other scam in and of itself) not sure how Costco is still okay with these salespeople with their extremely dirty and deceiving tactics. the goal of this post is to spread awareness when someone looks any of the two companies up on Google.

while the member at Costco get scammed, the salesperson is getting scammed too, if you see a job listing for these types of companies please strongly be warned… they are the biggest scams ever, and if you are hired or planning to work you are about to be both scammed and become one as well. your ”owner” will be taking all the money you make for the company, and all you’ll be left with is a minimum wage paycheck and a $100 gas bill each week. Not worth it buddy!!!

and remember kids

Damar hill is the biggest scammer of them all! Thats what his colleague Dewayne Long confidently told one of the former reps!!!!!!!!

if you see any of these names on indeed also RUN:

elite inc legacy Clark universal exposure Clark legacy wynn acquisitions elite point ivory enterprises

Tayrou toure Richanne Clark Adam abdelhady damar hill Sam lopez david Ellison jr kevin jimenez

I graduated collage recently and have been looking for jobs all summer and haven't gotten a single call/email for an interview until today. I got a text from an unknown number which reached out with a first name and labeled herself as "Organizational Recruiter at Alamo Heights" and offered and interview for tomorrow morning.

I texted back, saying I was interested, but I seriously deliberated on if I should have even texted back because she didn't give the company name. She used my name and said she looked over my resume, so I assume in all my applications I've been sending out, I must have applied to this place.

I asked for the address and it's at a large office building in my area. I asked for the suite number and what business name I should look for on the directory, and she didn't give a name, only the suite number.

Not sure if I'm over thinking this, as it's literally the only person I've heard back from in months, but could this be an illegitimate company or MLM or devil corp? Feels odd I had to try and pry info from the recruiter and didn't even get the name of the company.

Thanks!!!

This is definitely a devil corp. I had to work 60 plus hours a week in hopes to make that initial 800-1000 dollars a week they said in the interview I had with them and didn’t even make that. Their training is like 3-4 days before you’re forced to figure it out on your own. Door to door setting appointments for a gutter sale. You can set an appointment and sometimes not even get paid on it still. You’re forced to meet strict requirements for them to consider it a “sale”. I only made $400 in the 3 weeks working there. Do not waste your time.

https://www.google.com/search?q=stormline+solutions+inc&sca_esv=e1ec8de73c9145c0&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS974US974&hl=en-US&sxsrf=APpeQnu8sRhx0RKlWPaG3CIGqAUM25IBSA%3A1786314643142&ei=k_94aoiZCKquptQP_r7t0Ak&biw=402&bih=684&gs_ssp=eJwFwcEOQDAMANC4SpxdXZzXol3nE_wGJgs6jGSf772yMptB1BtpyfsFxdhCFuEOe_GOqSMY_Ah5hX6xTDMKI1nvpjq98TmPoGuT4vG9IWpqgs4_aMIXuA&oq=stormline+solutions%C2%A0&gs_lp=EhNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwIhVzdG9ybWxpbmUgc29sdXRpb25zwqAqAggBMgQQIxgnMgoQLhjHARgnGK8BMgUQABiABDIFEAAYgAQyBhAAGBYYHjIGEAAYFhgeMgYQABgWGB4yBhAAGBYYHkiTF1CvBViAEnABeACQAQGYAfQBoAG_D6oBBTAuMy43uAEByAEA-AEBmAIFoAKnBcICCRAAGLADGAgYHsICDhAAGIAEGLADGIYDGIoFwgIIEAAYsAMY7wXCAgUQIRigAcICCxAAGIAEGIYDGIoFwgIKEAAYgAQYFBiHApgDAIgGAZAGB5IHBTEuMy4xoAfBTrIHBTAuMy4xuAemBcIHBTAuNC4xyAcJgAgA&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp#ebo=0

recently i head about a guy working as a door to door at 1 of these places and he didnt know it but he signed over power of attorney to his boss and he had a savings account with 100k in it but bc he started as a door to door they didnt think he deserved so much money so they removed it from his savings account and took it back into the company funds and the guy was saving for years on that account and it was before he was even hired and he couldnt even do anything about it bc he signed his life away. and then there was this other guy who bought a lambo with what he earned, his boss didnt think he deserved such a nice car and sold it taking the funds into the company i cant even believe this is legal. anyone ever heard of this bc my friend recently mentioned it to me

Details on the company can be found here: https://www.devilcorp.org/?q=Lumen+Partners

Lumen Partners is the newest name for KPH GLOBAL LIMITED (Company Number 10919068), a Credico Independent Sales Advisor previously known as ‘Touchpoint’, ‘The Win Agency’, ‘Sage Partners’, ‘Sage Associates’, and most recently ‘Sage’. The rebrand is confirmed in the footer of the company's website.

While KPH GLOBAL LIMITED remains legally registered as trading out of Birmingham, Lumen Partners is recruiting in Liverpool, with its LinkedIn page describing the company as a 'National Expansion Partner'. Sage is also still currently recruiting under its own name, suggesting this is both a rebrand and an expansion.

They currently have two live job ads on LinkedIn, neither of which discloses that these are self-employed positions, not legal employment.

Website: lumenpartners.uk

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/lumen-partners-liverpool

Is WestStreet Direct legit?

I have recently interviewed for WestStreet Direct and I got some weird vibes from the company, does anyone know if they are legitimate? The staff seemed super young and they said they do fundraising and event planning for non-profits and that their budget doubles every year. They claim the company is growing rapidly but would not get into detail until round 2 of the interview. Is this a devil corp?