Canada's Competition Bureau Takes Its Time (5yrs) Shutting Down Fake Jobs Sites

[mandy]

Canada's Competition Bureau says it has shut down two Edmonton-based websites that duped job seekers around the world with promises of lucrative salaries, but oilcareer.com is already back online and open for business.

A Google search for “oilcareer” leads to countless allegations of fraud from people saying they paid hundreds of dollars for services they didn't receive, and then couldn't get a refund as originally promised.

“We received complaints from Canadians but also from Americans, from Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. Certainly the oil and gas industry is one that globally attracts people with visions of grandeur and significant incomes,” said Brian Lemon, spokesman for the federal agency.

It took five years of complaints from Internet users and persistent work by anti-scam websites to convince the agency to act...

full article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/s.../?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20060226.woilscam0226

[dnc_ont]

Hey, that's pretty darn good for the Competition Bureau.  I didn't think they actually DID anything at all.

They have still time and time again failed to find any evidence of collusion and price fixing among the oil companies, when the price of gas in Canada never fails to rise 10 cents a litre overnight at every single gas station, in time for the weekend, holiday, whatever (ie. that's like 40 cents a gallon), despite the actual price of crude DROPPING at the same time.  That brings the excuse from the oil companies that the crude price doesn't affect the pump price right away, but when the crude price rises, gas goes through the roof the same day.  Yeah, no gouging or price fixing going on up here, nope.

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