Total money lost $59.99
Type of a scam Other
I contacted this school/institute via email after I saw their ad on ivf.net because I was looking to attend an ivf training course. In my initial email I asked a few basic questions such as start dates and course content. Their courses are quite expensive and the information contained on their website does not provide course curriculum or details. The site admin replied to my email by saying that I had to become their client by paying an admin fee of $59.99 CAD in order to receive information on their courses because they only respond to their clients. I made the payment online and wrote back requesting the same information. This time the admin wouldn’t provide the answers because he said they don’t share this information until after people pay the full fees for any of their courses (thousands of dollars) because they want to protect their intellectual property. I made several attempts to reason with him and explained that I am not comfortable paying the full course fee without knowing what I am paying for and that I had already paid the admin fee to get info as promised. He wouldn’t share any information and started to ignore my emails. I then wrote asking for a reimbursement since I have not received the service promised. He then responded immediately threatening with legal consequences!!!???? So I decided to report them here because I am sure that many others are getting scammed. I was lucky to hold off on the full payment before getting more info but others may have been enticed by the 75% discount that they advertise on their site. It seems that this business is registered to two individuals but is the mother company to a cluster of several other small scams. I was trying to register for a course under the Canadian Clinical Embryologist Training Centre but they have several aliases. See their ad on ivf.net: <span title="http://www.ivf.net/ivf/canadian-national-advanced-specialist-embryologist-training-program-saskatoon-canada-o8665.html
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A non-Canadian friend of mine from overseas also fell prey to the same scam in exactly the same way. We were both looking for educational programs in this field. I suspect that most of their victims are non-Canadians, based on the ivf.net clientele where they advertise. Their Federal Corporation number is 9105875. Their Business Number (BN) is 622193983RC0001. The two names attached to this business number are Maxwell Omabe, 108 Cumberland Avenue, Saskatoon, SK S7N1L8 and the second is Mauruf Ogunnubi, 33 Degeer Crescent, Saskatoon, SK S7H4P6. The second address is the address of the branch office listed on their website. The business claims to have a head office at 1500-410 22nd Street East, Saskatoon, SK S7K5T6 but I looked into it and this address belongs to a law firm.