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The Scent of Deception An impressionable twenty-something college graduate, JM answered a classified advertisement in the local paper for a job as a marketing executive. She was granted an interview, where she discovered that the job would entail marketing knock-off perfume and cologne products. She figured it wouldn’t be difficult, and she was promised at least $50,000 for her first year on the job. After a week, however, she began to realize that she was being taken for a ride. Every day, she and three other “employees” would get in their cars and drive to different areas of town, trying to sell their fragrances from larger duffle bags to people on the street. Twice, she was threatened with arrest by local police. Her employers assured her, however, that she would only have to do this for five weeks, after which she would be given her very own office. Thin Thread: By the second week, she was exhausted and frustrated, and she’d only managed to make a few dollars from all her hard work. She decided to quit, but she wanted to give it one more day to see if anything would pan out. That afternoon, she approached a man in a Wal-Mart parking lot to see if he would be interested in buying, and although he wasn’t interested, they got to talking about her history. He asked about her education, and offered her a job in his advertising firm on the spot. She still works for that company.
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