Is David Werner listed ...

Before you give David Werner $1,000 or $30,000 or $40,000 or $50,000, ask yourself few simple questions. Is David Werner listed as one of the top 10 executive recruiters search firms, anywhere? NO! Here is the top 15 list:

http://www.workforce.com/tools/hot_list/HotList_0607_17.pdf

Is David Werner listed in the top 100? Is David Werner listed in the top 1000? Is David Werner listed as one of 13,0000 executive search firms published by Kennedy Information, the oldest and most complete list of retained and contingency executive search firms? NO, NO and NO! Here is the Kennedy Information Directory of Executive and Professional Recruiters:

http://www.kennedyinfo.com/executive/recruiting/publications?C=eVBQrxwMuGXWfbWH

Kennedy Information Directory lists 13,000 retained and contingency recruiters in their 2009-2010 Directory. Is David Werner a member of the Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC)? Most likely NO, because there is no mention of this association on David Werner website. There is no listing of any professional group or association on David Werner website. Nor there is any mention of any Code of Ethics which AESC members are required to uphold and comply with. Code of Ethics, which require member firms to uphold virtues like; Professionalism, Integrity, Conflict of Interest, Confidentiality, Objectivity, Accuracy, Disclosure, etc., etc.

Before you sign an agreement and give David Werner $20,000 or $30,000 or $40,000 or $1,000, ask yourself these simple questions.

David Werner is taking their unhappy clients to court…AGAIN!

In case you have any doubts about David Werner International taking his clients to court, you can actually see the legal papers at the New York Supreme Court website. In less than eight months David Werner International has taken unhappy clients to court. To view the summonses follow the link bellow. The first screen, designed to stop automated searches by computers, requires you to type in the characters in the picture…Submit and BINGO!

http://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/iscroll/C_PDF?CatID=475543&CID=102547-2009&FName=0

Do you want to sign an agreement with David Werner International? Think again!!!!

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose!

Hopefully you are reading this before you sign an agreement with David Werner International. I paid him $37,000.00 and today I am still looking for employment. After 12 months of listening to David Werner and his claims, he produced no interview, no leads….zero results. Looking back it is quite clear - David Werner International is a scam!

Like all scams, it operates with little or no competition. Joann Lublin, in her January 5, 2009 article entitled “High-End Help for Job Hunters: Does It Pay?” which was published in The Wall Street Journal, uncovers an interesting fact. The pay-for-job market players is a very small group, Joann lists three payers. Like all scams, David Werner International operates in this small community outside of the competitive world of contingency or retained employment agency world where he can’t compete and where he can’t scam. In the competitive world of employment agency, the business model is clear and it is fair. If they find you a new assignment they get paid, if they don’t they get nothing – Heads I win, tails I lose! That is why retained agencies will not accept new clients if they deem difficult to place these client.

In the world of David Werner International the difficulty of placing a client is irrelevant because David Werner gets paid upfront. Mind you, that is not what he will tell you! He will convince you that he makes money from the placement fee, that is the fee based on your annual salary and which you agree to pay after you accept the new job. This is clearly not true, very much like everything else you will hear from Werner.

At your first face to face meeting with David Werner, he will look you over and determine how much you are worth. From that he will figure out the upfront fee. That initial fee is comprised of all his costs associated with the busy work he will provide, i.e. mailing, websites access, databases, etc. The other and most important component of the initial fee is his profit. From that point on the scam is complete. If you get a job David Werner gets additional money and if you don’t David Werner got his cost covered and already got his profit – Heads he wins, tails you lose!

Like all scams he will convince you that the laws of probability do not apply to David Werner International. He will convince you that all of his clients find a new job. He will convince you that the “Werner Letter” will make some company create a new job for you. He will try to convince you that a personal website will help your image after all; he will convince you that David Werner International is an expert marketing professional particular in the new media, Internet.

The reality is very different. David Werner International had absolutely no Internet presence until early 2008. If you search on Google for information prior to late 2007 and early 2008, you will discover that David Werner and David Werner International was a stealthy operation. The only reason David Werner International started to spend money on Internet is to attempt to counter the avalanche of negative posting which started at the end of 2007. Many scammed clients of David Werner International discovered several website where they could expose this scam. This forced Werner to initiate many so called “Press Releases” on numerous websites to try to counter the explosion of complaints and negative posting. That is what forced him to muster all his marketing might to get Joann Lublin to write “High-End Help for Hobs Hunters: Does It Pay” article in The Wall Street Journal. Fortunately, his effort backfired because Joann made an effort to be relatively objective and her writing exposes the fact that “Certain Werner clients are unhappy”. If the laws of probability apply to Werner the same way they apply to the rest of the universe, “certain Werner Clients” translate to – a large percentage of Werner clients, particularly in this employment market. The clients who get scammed by David Werner are in many ways like Madoff’s clients who believed that the laws of stock market probability do not apply to Madoff or themselves. David Werner’s clients believe that Werner can find jobs for all of his clients regardless of the economy or the simple fact that David Werner is ignorant of the effect Internet has had on the employment agency business. Like Madoff, David Werner creates an exclusivity aura claiming to only accept a certain number of clients with high salary employment history. Looking for people with a high salary history is easy to understand. These people have money and believe they are better and more deserving than the rest. They are also less likely to fight back and expose the scam.

The claim of only accepting of a limited number of clients is dubious at best. David Werner has made verbal claims of eight clients per months. In Joann’s article Werner claims only four clients per month. It is difficult to exactly know how many clients David Werner scams monthly. The exact number is actually irrelevant. What is relevant is the fact that Werner is always stating some small number which creates the aura of exclusivity and feeds the psychology of making his scam desirable.
Regardless, for every Werner client the results are the same – Heads he wins, tails you lose!

The Scam David Werner International is working hard at Public Relation!

Have you read the January 5, 2009 article entitled “High-End Help for Job Hunters” published in The Wall Street Journal? Presumably, the con artist David Werner has gathered all his talents and connections to get Joann S. Lublin to write this article.

The article is quite interesting and, to Joann’s credit, exposes David Werner International with subtlety and elegance. In the article Werner comments on two of his clients; a Mr. Craig Schmeizer and Steven L’Heureux. Apparently, Craig is happy with Werner however, Steven is not. The astonishing part about the article is that Werner is argumentative, belligerent and defiant towards his client Mr. L’Heureux. Instead of acknowledging that, perhaps David Werner International did not successfully serve his client, the con artist is argumentative and attempts to demonstrate that his is rite and that his client is wrong.

Mr. L’Heureux is one of many clients who have been scammed by the con artist David Werner. Unfortunately, Mr. L’Heureux may have not done his homework before signing the DWIC agreement. As a result, Mr. L’Heureux has been scammed $22,000. Mr. L’Heureux, should take some comfort in the fact that his $22,000 is less than many others who have been conned out of $30,000, $40,000 and much more.

We have to give Werner some credit for succeeding in using his con artist skills to use Joann to distribute misinformation and create an aura of success and desirability for his scam. Where have you read recently about an individual who created an aura of exclusivity and privilege? Who has been using the psychology of creating an environment which is blinding people and entice them to forfeit research about the scam to which they are about to lose large amount of cash? Who by coincidence has been doing this for over 30 years? If the name Madoff does not come to mind, you have been in a cave for the past 60 days and you may very well deserve to be swindled by David Werner International.

Joann, the WSJ reporter, has been used because she accepted information which is false and which attempts to create the same aura of exclusivity and desirability, the same psychology that Madoff used. Werner states and Joann writes:

“About 100 Wall Street executives requested assistance during 2008 from David Werner International Corp., a New York executive marketing firm that serves just four individuals a month.”

David Werner International “swindles” 8 people a month. He stated this verbally back in 2006. If he now handles only 4 swindles per month than, his business has decreased by 50%. This could be very plausible since, for the past two years his scam has bee well exposed on the Internet.

But the subtle and most dangerous aspect of this scam, like Madoff, Werner states and Joann writes:

”David Werner International Corp., a New York executive marketing firm that serves just four individuals a month”

This is the exclusivity statement which is design to create the aura of privilege and difficulty of access, just like Madoff, and which is design to create desire and entice negligence in due-diligence research.

Any business faced with increased demand will expand not turn away clients. On the other hand this is not a business, is a scam and these people are not clients, they are “marks” setup to gamble their money and, like any gamble, lose ….BIG! $25,000, $30,000, $40,000 and more.

The Newest Trick At The Old Scam

Everyone who has been exposing the David Werner International Scam at www.ripoffroport.com, http://www.complaintsboard.com, and www.pissedconsumer.com, should feel very good. The information revealed on these websites have forced the con artist, David Werner, and his scam David Werner International, to yet again, attempt to change the old scam.

We now learn from his website, his self-promoting “press releases” and his blog at www.fastcompany.com that:

“The ‘employment experts’ have expanded their career marketing services to include a 3 month service program. The standard DWIC program is 8 months. The fees for the optional 3 month program have been reduced”

Clearly, the scam is having difficulty finding “marks” (the mark is what a con outfit calls the person to be swindled and scammed) to feed their revenues. So now Werner is hoping to find marks naïve enough to give him $1000, $3000 or $5000, whatever he can get, for 3 months “engagement”. It does not take much imagination to figure out what Werner will say to the mark after 3 months – It is a difficult employment market and you did not give us enough time to succeed! We should continue for 3 additional months for which please give us another $3000, or $5000 or more, depending on what the con artist thinks you are worth.

When you get there remember that you read it here first and that – YOU IGNORED IT! Go ahead - throw good money after bad!

Don’t be irrational and learn from mistakes made by other people already conned by David Werner. Werner has no ability to find anyone a job. He has no understanding of marketing, let alone Internet marketing and, if you are an executive hoping to find a new assignment, paving the Internet with your name and credentials while you carry a colossal steel ball with David Werner written all over it, will destroy your name for a very long time. Retirement will be your next stop, if you have enough cash and if you did not invest with Madoff.

Don’t be conned by this con artist! And most of all don’t let yourself be reeled in like a fish on a hook, day by day, lie by lie, for 3 months, followed by 3 more and 3 more … while you feed the scam $3000, $4000, $5000 every three months.

David Werner International is just a scam. Werner has nothing to offer and you have as much chance to find a new assignment while you have Werner into your pockets, as you have a chance to win the lottery. He has nothing to offer but lies and deception and a guarantee that he will dig deep into your pockets. Don’t be naïve – LEARN FROM OTHERS, SEARCH THE INTERNET, IT IS FREE!!!!

New Tricks At The Old Scam

David Werner swindled me out of $37,000.00 and like the many other victims (clients), I lost time and damaged my reputation in the process. I learned the hard way about this scam and the con artist who is running it, Davis Werner. This rip-off is now attempting to change the public opinion and his fortune through a number of self promoting articles, new “services” and con tricks they have recently added to the old scam.David Werner International is now baiting their “clients”, marks as they are called in the con business, with something called “Online Portfolios”. This is nothing more than creating a personal website, from a number of standard temples, and hosting it on servers owned by Power Talent Network, a company operating out of Boca Raton, FL. David Werner International has an agreement, with Power Talent Network, to remarket their software under DWIC name. For this privilege the victim, will be charged a website creation fee and an annual hosting fee. Any client, who is naïve enough to pay for something like this, will get pages and pages of useless statistics like; the number of hits on the site, the time of day, what pages were viewed, etc., etc., etc. All of it is useless information which gives the victim, loads of useless data but which will not get anybody closer to a new job. Actually, having a personal site will very much be working against your chances of getting a new assignment. Ask yourself - what any of the top 1000 corporation in US would think about an executive with a personal website advertising his or her stuff on the Internet? The last thing they need is yet another self promoting “Prima Dona” with aspiration to publicity. If they needed something like this they would go directly to Hollywood and talk to Paris Hilton or any other Hollywood clown. The last thing they need in their executive staff is a person with publicity aspirations. Rest assured that if a company like Wal-Mart, or Exxon Mobil, or GE, of IBM, or Philip Morris would give some new executive a new assignment, the first thing they would want to do is control his or her communication with the outside world. And the very first thing they would want to do is to turn off any personal websites. Unfortunately for the new executive who was just hired, the problem with the Internet is that data published remains available forever and can not be erased or hidden from the public. The con artist, David Werner, should know this as he claims great knowledge about marketing on the Internet. The truth is Werner is more ignorant about the Internet than any 90 year old grandmother. Actually, we could probably find several 90 year old grandmothers who are quite knowledgeable about the Internet and marketing on it which is much more than we could say about David Werner.The second addition to the David Werner scam is their desire to become a mergers and acquisition broker. Werner has made some statements, on the Internet and which will now be there forever, about his ability and desire to provide M&A broker services to his “clients”, victims. The reality, and what he again is ignorant about, is the fact that he would need to have an FTC license to be an M&A broker. Werner would go to jail if he attempted to provide any services which could be interpreted as brokering services in an M&A transaction without an FTC license. It is also true that the disclosure process, which would be a prerequisite to obtaining an FTC license, would expose the scam and him being a con artist. David Werner or his company, David Werner International, could never obtain an FTC license. He might be able to make a backroom deal with somebody who already has such a license however, that person will soon after either lose the license or go to jail upon further investigation by FTC.The bottom line is – Don’t get involved with this scam! If you value your reputation, if you expect to someday be employed by any of the top 1000 US corporations, and most of all if you value your money, don’t get involved with this scam and the con artist David Werner. Don’t get involved or you will learn the hard way and destroy your reputation in the process. After dealing with David Werner retirement is your next stop! When you get there this about all the cash you put in David Werner’s pocket!

Follow the Chameleon…David Werner International is rapidly changing the 30 year old scam.

Faced with an overwhelming avalanche of negative press by their swindled clients, David Werner International is attempting to change the old scam and
keep the flow of victims knocking on his door.

In response to articles exposing this scam at; ripoffreports.com, complaintsboard.com, and pissedconsumer.com David Werner has lunched a number of self-promoting propaganda articles published in the usual free internet website such as; PRLog.com, WebWire.com, Free-press-release.com, Pr-use.net and I-newswire.com

This effort followed their attempt to silence on of their clients through legal means. On October 5, 2008 David Werner International filed, in New York State Supreme Court, legal action against their client. See the filing at:

http://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/iscroll/index.jsp
type the displayed text, submit and plaintiff search David Werner. Read case #112099-2008.

Soon thereafter it became very clear that they settled, most likely paying their client, to allow them to publish a retraction statement in his name. The retraction is published at ripoffreport.com report #348120 and has been posted on many rip-off reports at Ripoffreport.com.

Most if not all scams and con artists such as David Werner, when faced with this type of exposure, promptly disappear and latter reappear under a different name and with a different scam. David Werner did not do that primarily because he is belligerent but mostly because he is absolutely ignorant of the Internet. Not realizing that Internet has given everyone a powerful voice and a method to effectively expose his type of scam, David Werner has decided that flooding the search engines with his propaganda is more effective and that he will succeed in conning the public into allowing him to continue scamming his victims, $10,000.00, $20,000.00 and sometime $30,000.00 per client. This is the same con artist who claims marketing expertise and Internet savvy and who wants to “help your career”? And you are going to let David Werner teach you marketing on Internet?!?!?!?!

This con artist will soon realize that taking his clients to court and continuing to con the public through propaganda has virtually eliminated whatever value he hoped to realize from this imaginary brand, he irrationally convinced himself he has created, named “David Werner International”. After 30 years of dabbling in a consulting business, David Werner has not learned that, taking his clients to court is the fastest way to be out of consulting business. And David Werner wants you to let him manage your career?!?!?!?

On the other hand, he is a successful con artist and therefore fully capable of conning some “buyer” or some company into buying this “thing” called David Werner International. For 30 years he has been able to swindle people out of thousand and thousands of dollars.