In September of I got an email from Jeffrey Hord about how he saw my post for searching for a recruiting position.
He saw my resume and liked that I not only had administrative experience but also had experience that the job was looking for.
He explained that this position was a position that I was able to do from my home. The company was still growing and that they had an office in Noblesville, In and in Hong Kong. My training was home based also and that I would receive $800 during my 4 week training period and $1250 after that every week. My annual salary, you could say, was $65000.
The training consisted of 7 documents that ranged anywhere from 6 to 10 pages long describing how to be a recruiter, what to do with clients, how to interview applicants and strategies to use while interviewing them and several videos through careerbuilder.com on how to post a job available. He also included in one email a screenshot of his computer on what a job posters main page of careerbuilder.com looks like. It had his name on it and everything. For those of you that do not know this, you need to pay to post a job opening on careerbuilder.com. It all seemed legitimate.
Lets fast forward. Two weeks after my initial training started, I finally got my first direct deposit from the company. It was for over $8000. He explained to me the company (CG Staffing) would make a very large deposit into my account to purchase a laptop that was strictly for work, software to install in the computer that way nobody could hack into the computer and some fingerprint device that I would have to use in order to unlock the laptop and sign in and an iPhone5 that I would be able to use as my personal phone (I wasnt about to do that).
Here is where I went stupid in the head and continued trying to rationalize everything.
He asked me to wire transfer the money to a person. When I tried, I was denied. Then he asked me to send the money to a Brandon Group INC in Cyprus. Everything seemed legitimate again because it was not a personal account but a business account. Things went over smoothly.
About a week later, he surprised me by saying this (copied and pasted from my personal email):
Dear %,
The payment for our services from one of our clients was readdressed to you. And the deposit is in your account. I think amount of the transfer will surprise you. We are going to open the company office in your location.inform me please the exact amount that you have received.
I will provide you instructions later. Jeffrey.
After this email, everything went downhill. See, what the email didn't tell you and what I also haven't told you is that the amount was for $655,430. What I also didn't tell you was after I saw this, I decided to check out where this was coming from. I found two surprises:
The first was the client he is talking about supposedly readdressed his IRS tax refund into my account and second... The first deposit was also an IRS tax refund into my account. I didn't check the first one.
I let him know that the deposit came in, he told me to wire the money to a girl named Angela. I asked him "no western union, it didn't go well before" so he allowed me to wire $10,000 to this persons account. Everything went fine.
I went to target after and my debit card got denied. I checked my bank account and BofA took out $888,888 from my bank. According to them, it means the money is still in there, but the account is frozen upon investigation if the money was rightfully there.
After a few days of no eating and almost killing myself because I was afraid of everything, an investigator informed me that they contacted the two companies/owners of those companies the IRS tax refund belonged to and they informed her that they were a victim of identity theft. She let me know that I was a victim of a scam.
So for anyone that got an email from Jeffrey Hord from CG Staffing Company (cgstaffing.net), do not take the job, PLEASE.
For any investigator interested in this case, I have every single email stored in my gmail, I will gladly offer you not only their emails sent to me, but my replies back to them. I have done nothing wrong and I was very upset about it. Please feel free to contact me.
Good luck!
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