'Swiss Food' - Are They Using Job Interviews to Recruit for Cashback World? (Lyconet / Lyoness / MyWorld)

                                   

In the summer of 2020, a lady applied for a vacancy placed on the Indeed Recruitment website from a company called 'Swiss Food Quality Business AG'. 

The job had been advertised for 30+ days and was for a 'Co-Worker in the field of declarations checks and food law' . The job was based at Swiss Food's Branch Office in Eschbach, Germany.

Just 24 hours after applying for this job, she received an email, not from the HR department, but from the actual CEO of Swiss Foods. He invited her for an interview at the Eschbach branch but unfortunately, on the date suggested, she was on vacation, so instead, an interview was arranged on the 19th August 2020 in Pratteln, Switzerland.

The CEO met her outside the office building at 'Hohenrainstrasse 24' and then took her inside to the 'Black Card Members Club', shown below:

Initially the interview went very well, with all the usual interview questions being asked and duly answered. But after a while, the CEO told her some alarming news.

He told her that he had actually sold the company and didn't know what would happen to the  jobs, but that he had another idea about a job that she might be interested in and asked her to stay for a little while longer for a presentation.

She asked him what the presentation was about but he wouldn't answer directly, simply telling her that he had worked for 'MyWorld' for many years and that the job was 'super easy', that they were 'a family', 'super International', and 'don't sell a product', so it was a perfect way to earn money. 

After a little while, a few other people joined them for the presentation and then another gentleman started telling them all about 'Cashback World' and how it works.

He also told them all about a building in Hanover where they could invest.

After the presentation, the CEO of Swiss Food then asked the lady personally if she could imagine working for the system and that he would send her links to the Cashback World registration. He then handed her a Cashback World Card with the Swiss Food logo on:

She told him she would think about it and the meeting ended.

When she got home however, she googled 'Cashback World' and read all the posts on the internet saying that 'Cashback World' was part of Lyoness/Lyconet and was in fact banned in numerous countries for operating a pyramid scheme. Not wishing to join such a scheme, she contacted the CEO again saying that she had found alternative employment and would no longer be interested in the job.

But disappointment at attending an interview that wouldn't lead to a job, then turned to anger at the feeling that she was simply being used. So she left a review on the Swiss Foods Facebook page, and the CEO responded:

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=977179599468900&id=100015306065111

The Review:

'As an employer underground handling applicants.
Jobs that do not exist are advertised. You are invited under the pretext of an interview to learn that the position is not filled at all.
Instead, you will find yourself in an introduction round for the company myworld / Cashbackworld / Lyoness / Lyconet (preferably just Google) and should invest a lot of money to be ′′ part ′′ of the team.
So whether you want to cooperate with Swiss Food Quality Business AG with regard to such practices, you should think twice or better.'

The CEO Responses:

Schon spannend was fachlich unqualifizierte Bewerber so alles tun um sich gut zu fühlen.

(It's exciting to see what unqualified applicants do to feel good.)

Wir sind froh diese Dame nicht eingestellt zu haben. Und was Swiss Food mit Lyconet bzw. Lyoness zu tun haben soll, bleibt uns unerschlossen.

(We are glad we didn't hire this lady. And what Swiss Food should have to do with Lyconet and Lyoness remains to be seen).

The Reviewer Response:

Komisch, dass dann Kundenkarten mit dem Namen von Swiss Food Quality Business AG und Cashback World existieren und verteilt werden...googelt man Cashback World findet man den Zusammenhang mit Lyconet/Lyoness mit nur einem Klick.

(Funny that customer cards with the names of Swiss Food Quality Business AG and Cashback World exist and are distributed ... if you google Cashback World you can find the connection with Lyconet / Lyoness with just one click).

Additional Information:

Swiss Food Quality Business Ltd (Company number 06621129) was incorporated on 16th June 2008 and dissolved on the 4th April 2017. 

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06621129/officers

Swiss Food Quality Business AG was founded on 26th August 2008 and is still active and registered in Zurrich:

https://www.moneyhouse.ch/de/company/swiss-food-quality-business-ag-4258944181?fbclid=

The Hanover building that was mentioned as an 'investment' is written about here:

https://www.bekm.us/new-press-hanover-dubious-advertisers-for-the-ponzi-scheme-on-the-loose

https://www.bekm.us/black-diamond-leader-in-a-pack-for-the-photo-shooting-groundbreaking-together-with-hubert-freidl-to-hanover-after-that-the-scenery-was-dismantled/

The 'Black Card Members Club' is a private members club that has the facilities to rent out rooms for 'business meetings'. 

Switzerland Information:

Switzerland have banned Lyoness from operating in their country. 

https://www.bekm.us/new-swiss-judgement-of-4-june-2019-legal-disaster-for-lyoness/

https://taratalkstoday.blogspot.com/2018/06/lyoness-court-cases-from-around-world.html

If this job interview for Swiss Foods was just a 'one off' and the CEO was just being thoughtful in offering this lady alternative employment as she wasn't suitable for the post advertised, then so be it. He was only guilty of terrible bad manners.

But if anybody reading this has also been to an interview with Swiss Foods and been offered an 'opportunity' with Cashback World instead, then please let us know about it, we'd love to hear from you!