College Freshmen and Sophomores Beware - Avoid these internships
Scammers are everywhere, and they love targeting naive college kids (what about this scam called 'college'?).
anyways some of these schmucks have figured out that there are a ton of hard-working but socially less aware and innocent college freshmen/sophomores wanting internships to prepare them for the IB or consulting track. and theyre out to get us. there is no centralized list on this forum, so i decided to start a thread where we can compile a list of these non-value adding jokesters who deserve to have their illegitimate businesses run into the f---ing ground.
Alpha Capital Holdings/Corporation - this is a joke firm run by some clear non-banker old hag type named Jack Bloom, apparently you need to pay to take an internship, which is already a red flag but they also post on Craigslist... a 'banking' job on Craigslist. their main hunting ground includes most Ivies, Duke, WashU, Johns Hopkins, and more. (really any decent school where they pass the pre-screen for the job campus job board). also the website is straight from 1998
Bastien Capital - consulting firm, yet i can never find a real posting/advertisement regarding their consulting services on google except on their decent-looking but content-lacking website. but a ton of tangentially-internship recruiting related content on linkedin and their website. a friend of mine interviewed there and dropped it right away (expecting to get an email email where he was gonna be asked to pay), and said the guy who leads it (Jack Bloom of consulting lol) promised opportunities in strategic and operational consulting as well as IB-related work (dont see how a 1-man team can cover so much). their main hunting ground includes WashU, NYU, Vassar, Oberlin, and more
please add other firms that youve heard of practicing similar college internship scam tactics
Can we also include on this list anyone who offers to "Trade their time for your money" to teach you FOREX trading?