Peter Mihalev
Consumer Report

dkgonsouth
07-11-2012
14

I did not actually spend any personal cash but I did work that I was promised to be paid for. The job came from the Internet... They found my name on a job board and needed someone to edit work for them. They used the name The Travel Company but I later came to find out that they also use two other names. They are as follows:
Rambler Internet Holding" 1996

Address:
Russia, 115000, Moscow,
Leninskiy street 117, BL "Omega-Plaza"
Phone/Fax: 7-495-981-1111

Kathy Morris
Personnel manager
Florida Design, Inc
Tel: (206) 309-7063
Fax: (206) 600-4794

Once I got this information I knew something was up. I looked up Florida Design, Inc. And the phone numbers. The phone numbers come from Seattle, Washington and seem to be an company that bill collectors and scammers use to call on. Florida Design, Inc. Was an actual company but the documents that I requested from Kathy Morris I sent to the Florida Department of Corporations and they told me that they were not issued by them, were fraudulent and suggested I contact the Florida Attorney General's Office.

I do not ever expect to see this money. They were to pay me through a Paypal account which I guess through me off the scam because it was not a wire transfer or asking for my bank account. When it came time to pay me they wanted to offer me this other position with Florida Design, Inc. (one of their companies). I had done typing from 6/15 thru 6/26 before this other offer came. I inquired about being paid and they told me that I could take the $180 owed when I performed my first transaction in the new position of US Financial Manager. (My resume is in accounting as a Director of Finance and Accounting.)

To sum it up I declined the position of course as I know knew it was a scam. They wanted me to accept monies for them in my Paypal account and when they cleared to bank wire or Western Union the money to them. I asked what happened about a charge back to my Paypal account and kept getting the question about if I was interested in the position. My belief is this is a money laundering scam and I wanted nothing to do with it. I don't know whether to report it to the Attorney General of Florida know that I know that they are out of Russia because I have read a lot of things about the Russian Mafia, etc. And they were able to get all of my personal information from I believe the Careerbuilder site as I had just posted a new resume out there.

I hate having to apply for jobs through job sites because of all the scammers working off of there but there is no other way to get access to a lot of employment. I normally recognize these but this one slipped by me. I just want other people to be aware of this scam because I searched the Rip off reports and Scam sites and never found anything on them. Now it can be out in the open so others don't fall for their work scam.

I still haven't filed anything with the Florida Attorney General's Office as I am a little scared to but would really like to bring this to their attention as I truly feel these people are money laundering.