RALEIGH — Today, Attorney General Jeff Jackson announced that about 36 North Carolinians who were scammed by predatory tech sales company Prehired are getting more than $149,000 in restitution. Prehired conned consumers nationwide for years, trapping them into taking out deceptive loans for tens of thousands of dollars and promising services that weren’t delivered.
“Prehired misled their customers for a long time, tricking people into exploitative loans and harassing consumers across the country,” said Attorney General Jeff Jackson. “My office had to fight for North Carolinians to get their money back, and now they’re finally getting the refunds they deserve.”
For years, Prehired used deceptive marketing tactics to lure North Carolinians into paying up to $30,000 for their unlicensed online sales training program. Most students could not afford to pay, and Prehired conned them into signing up for predatory income-share loans while falsely promising to land them high-paying tech jobs. The program used aggressive collection tactics against people who couldn’t pay back their loans.
The North Carolina Department of Justice was part of a bipartisan group of states that sued Prehired and won a 2023 court order that required Prehired to return $4.2 million to those who made payments on the company’s loans.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) delayed these payments until Attorney General Jeff Jackson and other Attorneys General successfully urged CFPB to distribute the required funds in May 2025. Affected customers have begun to receive those refunds.
Attorney General Jackson was joined in sending the May 2025 letter to the CFPB by the attorneys general of Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Oregon, South Carolina, and Washington, and the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation.
You can read the letter here.
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