I have the same tale as the others. I responded to a job that came through a job search organization, not Craigslist. It sounded good and was within my abilities and experience to perform. The reply I received was an email with no company name, no telephone number, no ability to contact other than to reply to the email. When I looked at the headers for the email, they were routed through Dallas to an island off Nigeria. Suspicious, yes. Unemployed, yes. I went forward.
An interview was scheduled for 8 A.M. The next day. On Yahoo instant messenger. No phone number. No name. I was meeting with [email protected]. This "interview" took place and was basically her dumping info into IM about the parent company. Not even job duties were included. I was told that they were opening more offices in the USA, in Texas, Georgia, and New York in addition to the ones they already had, which is why the need more people trained now. This "interview took 1-1/2 hours, with pauses on her end of 10 to 30 minutes, and she got huffy if you asked if she was still there.
With no other information from me than my name and address I was hired. Salary was to be $15 an hour during the 2-week training period, then $20 an hour, with benefits, sick leave, annual leave, 401K, etc. To begin after 1 months' employment. This was strictly work from home, and I was to be on line every morning at 8 A.M. To get my daily assignments from them via IM again.
There was software required, but they would pay for it. Then she wanted to start the training immediately. As in the next minute. I put her off until the next morning at 8 A.M.
I was elated and spent the day spending the money.in the afternoon I started researching, and realized there was no job. There are no offices for Trivitron in the USA, but they are in Tokyo and Abu Dabi. They don't use yahoo; they have a designated email address of @Trinitron.com. They also are not into data entry, but medical equipment sales. Their website is very impressive. When I researched Trivitron scam, I found many of the complaint sites about them disabled, but some came through clearly, with similar tales.
I decided to see this through, and was on iine for training at 8 A.M. This morning. My trainer, who actually gave a name of Racheal Patrida, was not there. She showed up about an hour later, and wanted to start my interview. I told her we did that yesterday. Oh, my bad, she said, then wanted to start training. She then asked for my name, address, telephone number, and email address. I told her we did THAT yesterday as well. She demanded it again. I gave it, and she disappeared for 2-1/2 hours at which time I decided I had better things to do than waste my job hunting time taunting a scam. She later IM'd me asking me to be there at 9 A.M. Tomorrow, so we could set up the training and square away sending me the money for my software. Same rabbit hole as everyone else has discovered, although I was spared the legal nightmares that come with depositing that check.
I later found an email "task" from her, with a lot of questions regarding accounting and collections, things I never applied for. I applied for data entry/front desk/customer service.
This entire scenario is to strange to be believed, and best you not waste your time pursuing any contact with them. I think it's unbelievably cruel of them to prey on people who need jobs so badly, then take from them money they don't have. Don't let it happen to you!
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