1. Most recruiters are not the occasional labourers that you are mentioning. Most of them are, instead, professional scumbags who cheat and lie like Frank Zhang and some others. It is about the latter we are talking here.

At last I have succeeded in getting you to admit that not all recruiters are like this Frank Zhang. You need in all fairness to stop saying "ALL RECRUITERS." The very few{occasional labourers] freelancers or small teams of recruiters are not so few as you would have us believe. It's the huge recruiting companies who are in the minority- I think secretly you know that because you are not a stupid man by a long chalk. Still, I have made some progress towards licking you into shape. Thank you for conceding that point.

This need to talk to other FT's who work or have worked at a company cannot be skipped around, Turnoi, and if you are unable to do so then you should tell the recruiter and the company that you cannot work for them after all. I suspect that when you yourself had to do a 'euphemism' from two Chinese companies in as many weeks last year, you had not checked up properly on the companies ;even though you didn't use a recruiter- am I right or am I right? Or was it a dysphemism wot you went and done- hahaha-all jolly good fun.