404-927-0330

I received the following information from the following individual and wanted to verify its correctnetss.

Sandy Webb    
eCAM Vendor Liaison
675 West Peachtree Street
39M30
Atlanta, Georgia 30375
(404)927-0330

I received a document regarding a job From viva-it-com. And it's for a job with ATT is this correct. My email address is amw247looking@aol.com Please advise

I have received this email from a “recruiter” and because what I have been asked is an unusual I am freaked out to give my SS#, please see the detail on the email below and give advice. Thanks

frome realman200943@yahoo.com

February 20, 2008
AT&T eCAM Preferred Vendor:

eTEMP (Temporary Engagement & Management Program) is a web-enabled system which automates the contractor requisitioning and recruiting process. It is owned and supported by the Enterprise Contractor Acquisition and Management (eCAM) group. Social security numbers for each submitted candidate are required to be input into eTEMP for tracking purposes.  There are no exceptions to this requirement.  

The social security numbers provided for all candidates are kept confidential and secure within the eCAM organization and are not released to other areas of AT&T or outside the company.

If you have further questions on this requirement, please send an email to: etemp@att.com

Thank you.

Sandy Webb    
eCAM Vendor Liaison
675 West Peachtree Street
39M30
Atlanta, Georgia 30375
(404)927-0330

I received the same email, and I am very worried about giving this information over email.  I have been told by my job advisor to watch for scams and that I should NEVER give my SS# in an email.  I really need a job, and I don't know what to do.  Did you find anything out?  Is this a scam?

My story starts with applying for posted job online with a company called Xyant. They advertised a PM job for AT&T in Atlanta. I got an email response back from a fellow named Shan (West Indian as in from India), who was different person from who I sent the info to, who was Ram also from India.

The email response I got sounded positive and like he was eager to submit my credentials, however, needed my SSN# to proceed. He sent me a couple of forms and one was clearly a very poor cut and paste from something. Another was the Sandy Webb eCAM Vendor Liaison mentioned in other post.

Following is a paregraph from his email:
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This is for the client at&t. We are directly working with the client. I need your SSN to submit your resume to the client. Herewith, I have attached the client form which requests the SSN. SSN is mandatory while we submit the resume to AT&T as they are maintaining separate web pages for resume submission. We can go to the next page of the submission only after entering all the required details there. Please go through the attachment. Another attachment will explain the details I need to enter for submission through intranet (You have no need to fill that one). Hope you can understand now. If you have any queries call me or call the customer care number mentioned in the attachment. The details that are furnished by you will be kept confidential. If you are not willing to share your SSN over the mail, kindly call me and tell me over the phone.
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I live in Atlanta and am researching all of this as well as sending it to AT&T HR contact that I have to see if they can validate this Xyant company.

Also, another company doing this same crap in the name of AT&T is Artech.

They, like Xyant, will provide you local US numbers to call, however, when you call them, you will find yourself talking to someone in India.

Avoid these SCAMS!!!!

Yes  Indeed!  Should not give Social Security Number!

For those of you not used to working contract positions ATT and many other companies including most banks require a social secuirty and even a credit check before your resume is able to be submitted for a specific job.  If you are not comfortable doing this dont but you will not get a job with these companies on a contract basis.  Please view this website from ATT for more information

http://wwwconnectwithatt.com/ContractorOpportunities

Thanks for the info, Ron. The link you provided is broken, however if you go to www.connectwithatt.com and read the information they have listed about contract opportunities there is a list of companies that they use to recruit people for such opportunities. I ran into a similar situation today & was concerned until I could verify the company that contacted me is one that AT&T uses for recruitment purposes.

I am a recruiter who cannot speak English and lies to people.

Yes, I am asking for people's SSN over the phone and do not give me your SSN.

God Bless the United States of America since this is December 7th, 2010.

My contact info is:
Rafs (Rafae)

Y! Messenger: rafs_ext
ExterNetworks Inc
10 CorporatePlace South, Suite 105 ,
Piscataway , NJ 08854 .
Phone : 1-732-710-4780
Fax       : 1-732-465-0005
rafs@externetworks.com
http://www.externetworks.com


*** NEVER GIVE OUT YOUR SSN ESPECIALLY IF THE NUMBSCULL ASKS FOR YOUR SSL ***

AT&T is using the SSN in their system to block groups of highly qualified people who left on packages that said they could return.  Why?  AGE DISCRIMINATION and the EEOC is suing AT&T for this unfair practice.  AT&T is degrading the reputation of groups of people implying they are not qualified and blacklisting them by their SSN because of a glabal rule they feel they can mandate which hurts older people who dedicated most of their careers to serving AT&T.

Is Externetwork a company that hires for AT&T? I recieved a call about a job offer....Someone please advise.Phone # is 732-593-8209
Ashfaq Uddin (Ash)

Sr. Recruitment Consultant

ExterNetworks Inc
10 Corporate Place South, Suite 105, Piscataway, NJ 08854.
Phone   : 1-732-593-8209 ;  Fax     : 1-732-465-0005

ashfaq@exterNetworks.com
http://www.externetworks.com

http://www.externetworks.net

Yes it is genuine company which offers AT&T job. You can enquire about it any time. Office is located in Piscataway, NJ as mentioned in his signature. If you have any more doubts either come directly to Piscataway office or send your friend who stays in NJ.

I know someone who recently underwent this same process with a supposed AT&T recruitment agency that requested his SSN up front. It's definitely not a hoax:

http://connectwithatt.com/ContractorOpportunities

The real issue, for me, isn't that AT&T requires a contract candidate's social security number but HOW and WHEN they go about obtaining it.

Typically, an applicant does not provide a social security number to a prospective employer before an interview request has been made.

AT&T turns this practice on its head.

AT&T's contract policy is to ask all their "vendors" (recruiters) to ask for social security numbers up front. This is BEFORE a candidate has been relayed to AT&T for consideration on a specific job opening.

The traditional objection is that we should not be forced to use an SSN as an ID. It should be for tax and Social Security purposes only, the argument goes.

In this case, that's only part of the objection.

The core objection on the part of those who are recruited "blind" from career websites for CONTRACT positions at AT&T is that AT&T does not make an adequate effort to allow job seekers to confirm vendor relationships. There is currently a single page dedicated to the disclosure of AT&T's "Preferred Vendors" at:

http://att-jobs.tmpqa.com/contractors/

The problem: 1) This recruiter list is not inclusive. There are legitimate staffing agencies that are not listed. 2) There is no phone or email on AT&T's career website to call or confirm the legitimacy of a position or a recruiter who is not on that list; and 3) the public nature of the connectwithatt.com website --- where AT&T's preferred vendor and SSN policy statements appear --- can just as easily lend an air of credibility to a not-so-credible job description (phishing scheme).

Why bring this up? Because there is much confusion over whether AT&T's up-front SSN request is, in fact, AT&T policy. To be perfectly clear, this entire concern pertains to CONTRACT jobs, many of which job seekers are not locating on their own. These vacancies are often filled by recruiters, which means the first awareness a potential job seeker may receive will come from a stranger who has located your profile on a career website. It is risky for all concerned when AT&T makes no effort whatsoever to make it easy to report abuse or to confirm the job opening or the staffing agency in question.

I feel for the job seeker and the recruiters who work with AT&T. The recruiters must ask for the entire SSN up front on the phone or in an email, long before AT&T ought to require it (for background checks or tax purposes). It would seem that AT&T is leaving job seeker privacy protection up to the staffing agencies, and that simply doesn't cut it.

For AT&T's own protection, they ought to require contract recruits to acknowledge some sort of disclaimer before transmitting sensitive information over non-secure connections (phone or email). Yet they don't even go to that trouble --- which just might open them up to lawsuits sooner or later.

Any way you look at it, the level of risk is entirely unnecessary.

For one, AT&T could build a secure recruiter portal on their website that would prompt the would-be contractor to enter such information securely (SSL).

Yet AT&T doesn't, apparently, feel the investment in "non-payroll" personnel privacy is worthwhile. That's why I suspect it will be only a matter of time before an identity theft ring exploits the legitimacy of the AT&T recruitment policy in a phishing scheme. After all, the statement is out there for all to point to, not merely the legit recruiters:

http://connectwithatt.com/ContractorOpportunities

To recap: the issue is that 1) the SSN is collected too soon in the process --- before the contract candidate pool has been narrowed on AT&T's end; 2) There are many ways to fix this from a secure website login to a last-four-digits of the SSN as an alternative. Still, AT&T appears unwilling to make a good faith effort to improve the screening process (this contract recruitment practice has been ongoing at least since 2005, maybe longer); 3) This, in turn, seems to indicate that AT&T does not take privacy issues "very seriously".

Now what happens on the "normal" side of the AT&T hiring process --- the non-contract job openings --- that may very well be a different story; however, I can assure you that whatever you may read online, the SSN requirement over email or non-secure phone or wireless network is NOT A HOAX.

AT&T has gone against the grain of everything we've been taught by banking, retail and media providers when it comes to online safety practices: they are collecting social security numbers on every single contract applicant, even those who are never considered, never contacted and never acknowledged upon providing the requested SSN --- and all without asking applicants to SIGN, as is legally required, for a traditional background check.

The legality, security and intelligence of this policy is questionable at best.

The only thing you can do --- short of complain to the FTC ---- is ask yourself if you want to work for a company that maintains a before-all-else SSN-requirement that flies in the face of "best practices" everywhere else. You may be applying for a contract position, but that does not make you a second class citizen. AT&T will have an incentive to change this --- but if and only when job seekers are not desperate enough to take the bait.

ExterNetworks DOES NOT appear on AT&T's 2011 AT&T Preferred Vendors list. Even if a complete stranger asking you for your social security number over the phone was SOMEHOW legitimate, I doubt this guy is. RUN LIKE HELL!

The site is a scam!

When you have arab or muslim people who can barely speak english talk to highly qualified canidateds these job seekers are going to think it is a scam.  There is no way I am handing my SSN to some Mark Fisher or Vackter Blake who realy name is saddam or mohamad!

Wow your pretty convincing? so you'll beleieve the muslim speaking person calling him self by an american name, who barley speak understable english.  Horrible!

I agree these scamer pulled it off pretty good. great beliveable web site,  they were able to get them selfs BBB and verified.   god bless America for letting these scams get this far!

Do us all a favor and go back to your country!. I want to  Speak for the many unemployed people looking for work like my self, who dont wish to be skepital if this is a scam or not. there are simply too many employment scams these days.  you call and we can barely understand you.. your emails have defind words that smell scam! you ask for SNN and of course we Run!   I am discussed that such a reputable company would allow people like you to contract. I think Michael Moore should investigate att and thier hiring practices for asking for SNN.

Beware of false agencies sending you an email in regards to finding your resume online.
They are not real. You never have to provide your social security number unless you have been hired
for a position and beginning the hiring paperwork process.

They have great websites that anyone can build. The scam has been planned out and it seems like it has
been going on for several years.

When I was asked toprovide my social security number, I do something was incorrect.