Type of a scam Employment
North park education community is a scam (new one), and it is very likely that next time when they approach you, they will probably use a different method to fool you into giving them money in some shape of form. I’m just writing here in case you saw this post early enough to dodge that misfortune. The woman scammer is pretty stupid. Here is some detailed information about them:
Scamming since: March-April 2017.
Company name: North Park Education Community.
Website: http://www.npecommunity.com/
Websites purchased from: http://www.namecheap.com, where you can own a website for $0.48/year.
Web-Analyzer that shows the company’s TRUE information; http://wa-com.com/npecommunity.com
Names that the scammers go by: Samantha Fenton, Fernando Villanueva.
Phone numbers they use: Samantha:1-306-700-5597, Fernando: 1-306-229-5955. Toll Free number at 1-888-788-6393. The phone numbers appear to be from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, but the scammers actually route phone numbers to make them seem like the numbers came from Saskatchewan. The actual phone call is made from San Francisco, California in the United States.
Apps required to communicate with the scammer: Telegram
woman scammer’s username:@samanthafNPEC
Fake Location: 1) 230 22nd St E. Ste 205 Saskatoon, SK S7K 0E8. 2) Piazza Fortebraccio 4, 2th floor Perugia, 06123 Italy They claim their company is located inside a building. But as you can probably predict, the building exists, but their fake scam company doesn’t exist.
Method they use: If you applied for a lot of jobs in Indeed.com, chances are, you might have applied for their scam company. They will contact you saying that they have read your resume and are interested in hiring you. They will explain that their office is located in Saskatoon, SK, but they are going to expand their office to your city, and they need admins as soon as possible. They claim that until they find a suitable office in your city next month, you will work at home. After you talk to them, they will send you a PDF file of job descriptions where they discuss the nature of the job, high pay, benefits, bonuses, etc. If you accept the job, they will give you an Employment agreement form and Registration form where you will be required to fill out your name, address, education, and references and sign a bunch of agreements. Then she will tell you that the security check will take 1-2 business days. After 1-2 business days, she will contact you (phone call and/or email) saying you passed the security check, and that now you are on a probation with the company. She will ask you to download a mobile/PC app called "Telegram" which is a Russian app version of Hangout app. Then she gives you an Account Form, where you fill out your bank direct deposit information. From that day and after, she repeatedly assigns you projects which are easy but super time-consuming to complete and gives you 2-3 days to finish them. The nature of the projects is regarding your city, events, hotels, post secondary education, etc: Length varies but it is long.
If they didn’t scam you earlier with all your personal information and bank information, they will try to scam you 1-2 weeks after.
This is as far as I got; As soon as I realized I was working for a scam company, I changed my bank information and put a fraud alert on my credit by contacting banks, TransUnion, and Equifax. The woman scammer tried to use my bank information and nothing went through. Then the woman scammer called me again for my bank information, and I gave the woman a computer virus and *** up one of her computers. She pretended that nothing happened and asked for my bank information again(…? Yes, she is pretty dumb). I gave her another virus, which she didn’t open and said the file was virus. Then she kept asking for my bank information, and I just trolled her. Now she blocked me from the Telegram App and her email address.
Type of a scam Employment
I was offered a job by email after my resume was found on the job search website indeed by their HR team. The second email said that I would be on a 30 day paid probationary period after the documents they asked me to fill out were received and a background check completed. The previous email stated that due to the company working with students and government issued programs I needed to have a clean criminal record, but the was no documents sent for that check, none of the documents asked for my social insurance number, so I have no indication that they were planning to pay me. I called the number provided in the email to ask questions, the person who emailed me answered and when I asked about the documents sent to be filled out and said that there was some information missing, she said that I would complete new documents after the 30 day trial was over. The emails I had received stated that they were planning to open an office in my city next month and that was why they were offering me a job, I questioned that, but they did not know where in Calgary they were opening an office as they had not secured a lease yet. I was then directed to their website to find out more about the company, there was very little information. The social media links don’t work and the twitter #’s do not link to the company. I did a reverse look-up for the Saskatchewan phone number on the site and all I could find is that it is a cell phone # in Saskatoon no other information could be found.