I had no suspicions of this until "Karin" recently contacted me with regarding a "job" but not the specific job for which I applied (back in May). I immediately checked out tradelee.com and tradelee.Us websites (exactly the same) and was appalled to find such a shoddy website. "Karin" also proposed a "test" to make a poster which is not a reasonable assessment of a web designer's abilities.
When I requested Tradelee's physical mailing address she skirted the issue stating that there were hundreds of locations.
I emailed her my web design portfolio link and told her if she really had a job my portfolio should suffice as an assessment of my qualifications. She immediately sent me a work agreement, i-9 and w4 forms offering me 79K/year to do web design. That high paying of a web design job does not happen via a few brief emails, so I did a few Google searches and found several RED FLAGS, including a similar report to mine. Unfortunately it looks like at least one person quit a full-time job to start work with "Karin". Please be wary of this huge SCAM!
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