The Marketing Group, Madison Marketing Group, Cydcor, DS-Max Scam artist pyramid scheme sales organization that disguises itself as a marketing or advertising firm. Misleads job applicants and interviewees about pay structure and benefits. Changes its name constantly to avoid detection. Ripoff Vienna Virginia

If any of you have been victimized by Cydcor or one of its nationwide affiliates, now is the time to speak up.

After grad school, I moved out of state to accept a recruiting position with one of Cydcor's so-called "marketing" firms. I was thrilled at first by the youthful, friendly atmosphere. Then I quickly realized my days would be spent flat-out lying to potential candidates about the company's alleged "growth opportunities" and misleading them about pay structure and health benefits. I watched the employees in my office arrive at 7 a.m. for team meetings (which were unpaid), spend their own money on gas to drive to assigned territories miles away from the office (not compensated), use their own cell phone minutes to make sales calls (not compensated), and finally, return to the office at 6 p.m. exhausted and maybe a few dollars richer...IF they made any sales that day. I resigned after 4 weeks because I could no longer stand the lies, but have since seen many job-seeking friends get their hopes crushed when they realize what Cydcor is all about. Because of this, it's time to raise awareness and get rid of this organization.

Every day, naive new grads see job offers posted by these companies online and in the newspaper. Every day, more of these innocent job seekers learn the hard way about business ethics. Many of them get sucked in by the company's cult mentality and don't learn until months or even years later, when they are thousands of dollars in debt and exhausted from 12-hour days on commission-based pay. But YOU can help put a stop to this epidemic.

Contact the news channels, both local and nationwide. Give them the links to Cydcor's website and this website. Ask them to go undercover and visit a Cydcor-run company. Then, make official complaints to Monster.com and Careerbuilder.com. Explain that their credibility diminishes when they allow deceptive job postings on their site. These Internet job sites are the main avenues of recruiting, and if Monster and/or Careerbuilder removes all Cydcor postings, there will be no more new recruits. No more recruits = no more money = goodbye, Cydcor.

If you're on this site, chances are you already know the damage Cydcor has caused. Don't you want to help others avoid making the same mistake you did? Please speak out and do what you can to prevent Cydcor from ruining anyone else's life.

Best of luck to you all.

-Someone who got out

Integrity
Fairfax, Virginia
U.S.A.