Freelancers should beware of a company which is currently being promoted in a somewhat underhand way on social media.

The company is called Oracle Forecast and its virtues are being warmly and enthusiastically promoted on Facebook by an individual called Paul Mark Boyce. Boyce claims that, as as a Hair and Make Up artist, he got his last job by paying for Oracle’s services and he wanted to spread the word of what a great company it is.

While he’s delivering these warm words of recommendation what Paul Mark Boyce fails to point out however is that he happens to own the company in question and as such everyone who takes his words at face value is likely to be pouring pounds, shillings and pence into his coffers.

When asked why he doesn’t declare his financial interest when he advertises in this way, Boyce says he doesn’t feel the need ha ha.

If anyone is in any doubt about taking this individual’s recommendation at face value, let this be a warning then. The Oracle is owned by Paul Mark Boyce and when he promotes it, it is not out of the goodness of his heart in the hope that people may have the benefit that he has enjoyed from using the service but because you will be shovelling money into his pocket if you do.

And, to be brutally honest, it looks like a monstrously expensive way of gathering information about potential jobs when all those jobs are always promoted for free anyway on the pages of social media and the company’s own websites.

Freelancers beware!