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Country United States
Victim Location TX 77479, USA
Total money lost $40,000
Type of a scam Employment
Their contact information from their website (»cosmot-srl.com/) is listed as:
HQ European Union
9/3 Via Austria,
35127 Padova, Italy
Telephone: +39 049 762 5020
[email protected]
HQ Asia-Pacific
Wang Kwong Industrial Building,
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Telephone: +852 687 98 388
[email protected]
HQ North America
177 Huntington Ave,
Boston, MA 02115
Telephone: +1 617 723 5433
[email protected]
The individuals I was contacted by are:
Kelsey Romano
HR Department | Cosmo Trading SRL
Boston, MA | 617 963 0548
[email protected]
Benedetto Falco
Regional Manager
HR Department | Cosmo Trading SRL
Boston, MA | 617 963 0548
[email protected]
I was issued a contract to sign, agreeing to a four week probationary period starting 02/16/2018, during which time I would be assigned Business Cases to review and complete assignments. It was also agreed that I would be paid for this four week probationary period, and upon successful completion of the probationary period with a grade of a "B" or higher, then an offer of permanent full-time employment would be extended.
I started working on the Business Cases as assigned after returning the signed contract, and was informed by Benedetto Falco after a week of completed assignments, management in Italy HQ was so pleased with my performance thus far that they would like to ask for my assistance in helping to set up the Houston office and getting ready for their Managers and Executives to come over from Italy. Since they don't have any Managers currently here in Houston, they wanted to offer me the side project of purchasing basic office equipment from a list of authorized vendors, and I would receive a commission for each completed Purchase Order in addition to the amount I was to be paid ($2,000) upon successful completion of the four week probationary period, and requested that I make the purchases on my personal credit card and they would make the payments to my credit card from a corporate account they would provide the information for. I immediately became suspicious and told them I was not comfortable with this, and they then said that they could send the money to my personal credit card in advance and then I could make the purchases for the office equipment with those funds. Since I was getting the money in advance, I wasn't to worried about it. But now a month later they have stopped the payments they made to me in excess of $40,000!!
When Kelsey Romano and Benedetto Falco both called me a week apart from each other, the voices sounded the same, but the speech pattern was very different. I was told that calls would only be able to take place by scheduled appointment since they are so busy. I have repeatedly tried calling the Boston, MA phone number, Kelsey Romano's phone number, and Benedetto Falco's phone number, only to continually receive a busy signal. When Benedetto Falco called me only one time for a scheduled called when I asked to speak further regarding the details of this side project to help set up the NYC office, the number that appeared on my Caller ID when he called was 508-203-7668. When I tried calling this number back, it is a Google Voice number and no one answers.
I was told by Benedetto Falco that they had only been in the Boston, MA location for about 3-4 weeks now, and it is only the HR people that are there and that they are looking to hire and get the NY office set up and running first so Managers and Executives can come over from HQ in Italy, after which they would then get the Boston, MA office fully set up for Executives and Managers from HQ to come over to that location as well, and then look to set up the Tampa, FL office.
Their website which looked very professional and legitimate had a lot of information, seems to be down at this time (»cosmot-srl.com/), but a search of the domain shows that it is registered in the Ukraine.
Scammer's address 177 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115, USA
Scammer's email [email protected] & [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location FL 33313, USA
Type of a scam Employment
Miami location and job info posted below (from their email):
Start date: 4/9/18
City/State: Miami, FL
Address: 10800 Biscayne Blvd
Positions available: five (5)
To start the process, further steps must be completed:
1. Review the Employment Agreement and ensure your details are
correct, should this not be the case do not hesitate to ask for a
revised copy.
2. Last page of the document must be signed, therefore this is the
only page that must be printed. Sign, scan (or take a picture) and
email it to me as an attachment. Faxed copies will not be accepted due
to issues of clarity. Signed copies will not be accepted through the
postal service due to the volume of mail received on a daily basis.
3. Upon receipt of the signed document we proceed to the next step in
the process.