I was searching for a consulting type job to help pay for my Medical School tuition, when I came upon this ad for IPT on Career.com site. I sent my resume' and then a Ms. Farrell wrote me back saying they reviewed my credentials and would like to place me in a training program with others that would be a paid training program starting in November and would end in December and we would be paid $1,600 with an option to earn $3,200 for special projects if we qualified. I filled out this lenghty application and then submitted it and in two days I was told I had been accepted and was being handed off to Mr. David McAdams, who would be my special project's HR coordinator during my training period. I then started receiving these training documents on the company's policies and guidelines about shipping. After each week a test was sent to me and required to be submitted prior to Monday AM. After about 4 weeks of tests and even a psychologist phone interview from London supposedly, I was offered a chance to earn the $3,200 by accepting a P.O. That was for two apple computers. I was told there would be no out of pocket costs to me, that the company was issuing me an authorization to use thier checking account and that I could apply the entire P.O. Amount onto my credit card, which I did, as payment and to my belief the payments looked as though they were accepted. So, I shipped the product to the address on the Ukraine and thought everything was pretty simple and above board, so, they sent me several more P.O.'s and I followed suite as before. Then after about the 5th day, I got the shock of my life when all the payments I had made from their supposedly authorized checking account were being denied to me as an unauthorized user. I contacted this David McAdams, whose picture by the way is on google under "David McAdams" and it even lists him as HR for IPT, short for International Pacific Transportation the name of the company. They even have this very convincing web-site at www.iptr.net which totally looks official. So, now to date, I have had numerous e-mails from this David McAdams who keeps saying and promising all these things about a check is being cut to correct my issue, and that the accountants wanted to send me a wire transfer, but at that point I wouldn't give my checking account or routing number. Since then, this David McAdams has even had the gall to send me a final exam due in 5 days, and will not answer any of my e-mails now. I feel so stupid and never saw this coming. I hope the authorities can catch this guy or people and put them in prison where they belong. This has devistated me and now I have to figure all this out. Lesson learned, don't believe everything you hear or read.
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