Victim Location 33025
Type of a scam Employment
They say they saw her resume and wanted to recruit her. She requested more information about the company and the job. The original contact person was Lynda Lindsey she claimed she is an executive recruiter for G.I. Corp.
She went on to say: Our retail account administrator takes responsibility for helping global wholesalers\retailers in retaining and developing existing relationships, our mission is to continuously optimize our client’s needs, update catalogues, compete the market with fair prices, deliver our products quickly and bring excellent services with the contribution from all members of our professional back-office team.
By accepting this position you will take responsibility for the assigned geographic region and become accountable for scheduled activities,
follow directions, manage assigned corporate account, place orders, evaluate, send items and achieve Company’s objectives.
JOB TYPE: Full\Part-time, From home.
Wow this all sounded real, so she asked to be sent more information about this job and the company.
The next email received came from Greta.
My name is Greta Lenaerts and I work at GALCOM.
From what I see you already have skills and experience to succeed in this position. But we will invest in your training from day one, and continue to support your development throughout your career with GALCOM.
As you already know the job is home-based. This is not a sales position, which means that there is no minimum quota that you need to meet to get paid. Your monthly salary consists of two parts: First is a basic salary of $3000, second is a 5 percent of total cost of all orders you process within a month. The payment is done via the PayPal or direct deposit. Your first processed order commences 30 days countdown to the payday.
GALCOM is an internationally operating company based in the heart of Europe in Belgium. GALCOM is a wholesale firm in the field of consumer electronics. Next to electronics we also offer other goods, such as clothing, cosmetics, sport equipment\nutrition and much more. The team consists of enthusiastic, young people who are dedicated, skilled and speak several languages. Our business relations are based on international experience, long term relations, trust and honesty.
You will be part of our team as retail account manager who works from home. Since you reside in the US, you will be assigned to working with the Amazon as a main supplier of the goods at the lowest price.
So she asked if they are part of the other Galcom that is a religious organization that she found online while trying to research this job. Greta states no in her short reply email, that the two companies are not related. She also asked for her to contact her and was given the contact information that was on the web link she had put for their website galcom.net.
She was then sent a long email with a Q and A section and at the end it says that when you are satisfied, reply to the email "I am ready to begin!". She did reply that she was ready but still had questions. So the next email came with bogus contract with semi standard legal and not so legal language and explanations. At the bottom of the page was different company name and we googled that. Our search results were alarming. The company name is CCNP Insurance. We saw all the complaints and they even had the same or similar wording as the emails that were sent.
Glad that she never sent them any personal information or send back the fraudulent contract and banking details they sent to be fill out. In some of the complaints we saw, those people were not so lucky to find out about these scam artist before sending in their personal details.
Alot of the complaints were almost word for word what you just read minus the names or job titles that were different.