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- New York, NY, USA • May 29, 2023

Fake job posting. Got my email, number, address, and bank name.

- Dekalb, IL, USA • May 29, 2023

I received a text from Penny Johnson claiming to be from Xto Energy and that they saw my resume on LinkedIn. They had a Jacob Hicks, claiming to be the HR supervisor, contact me via Microsoft teams. After the all chat interview they said I got the job and sent me an offer letter and w4 form. They then asked about my computers and phone. Said I would need an iOS widescreen monitor and work pc. They said the company would pay for it but I had to go to Office max and get a verse check refill for $50 and a pdf check would be emailed to me so I could deposit it by atm.

Flock is being used by a scammer to defraud job seekers. It is possible that Accelerance is also a victim or possibly complicit. The person whom I contacted at Accelerance was very unprofessional. Let's start from the beginning.

I got an email thanking me for applying for a job I did not apply to, although I have been applying for jobs through job boards. Curious, I use a link in the email to log into Flock, a collaboration app with several other, possibly fake entities asking me to say hello. I did but they did not respond. The so-called recruiting manager, Kenneth Williams, invited "us' to a briefing on Friday, 10/28 at 8am, MDT. I attended, he provided boilerplate from the Accelerance website (as I later found out), asked a series of questions including name, address, phone number email address, wanted to know what banks we used for direct deposit, and later told us that we would have to open a Chase account for funds. That was a red flag right there, so I looked back to see if there were other flags. He "required" us to attend other session on Saturday 10/29 at 8am, but he did not show up. However, there were documents showing that he made me a job offer, sent an offer letter, and wanted a speedy reply. I sent him an email that I would be back Monday but I would be unavailable for the rest of the weekend. On Monday morning I contacted Accelerance. My suspicions follow, and my contact with Accelerance.

First, the person claiming to be Kenneth Williams, [email protected], was using a high risk email address, and certainly not professional. See the domain for more information.

Second, in his texts, he misspelled the company name, Accelerance, more than once. An HR person would never do that.

Third, he insisted that all candidates had to use a Chase account for direct deposit. This in itself is suspicious because direct deposit doesn't care what bank you use as long as you have a valid transit routing number and account number.

Fourth, he indicated that they would ship equipment to us, but we would have to pay the freight before we would receive it, and we would be reimbursed via this Chase account. This was a big red flag.

So I called Accelerance at 877-992-2235. Strangely, I was sent to VM on three of four options. On the fourth, someone answered, I asked for HR and he hung up. I called back, went to VM a few times, then it just rang. He also did not answer professionally, just "Hello"

I waited a couple of hours, and called again, but this time I was able to explain my suspicions. He told me that there was no job offer, nobody named Kenneth Williams with the company, accused me of being a scammer and to never call back. He also refused to give me HIS name. That was and is very suspicious.

The company address is 303Twin Dolphin Dr., Suite 600, Redwood City, CA 940656

The Google shot of the building looks great, but it looks to be only 2 or 3 stories high. I don't know if they are part of the scam, but my interaction with them was totally not professions, so I wonder.

I am just trying to prevent other people from being scammed or having their identity stolen.

There is no gain for me other than doing the right thing.

One other thing, I got on Flock today, and he was doing it to another group, so I jumped in and broadcast to the group what he was doing, Many had their own suspicions. I am attaching a screen scrape of some of their comments.

That's it. If you need more information, I will try to heol\p.

Initially i received a text stating that they saw my resume on Indeed and they thought i would be a good fit for their Data Entry/ Admin position and to reach out to ******* ************ their hiring manager via Telegram. So i did that. We went through the job descriptions and information about the company and how they would like to proceed with an interview. After the interview she advised that i had gotten the position and they will be paying for all the equipment to work from him sending a company check. They even emailed me the new hire paperwork which has all the valid information required to work as an employee. Once i received the check , I deposited the check and she advised me to then transfer $1000 to a Cha* ****r through Zelle. And she had me do it again. Then she wanted $2700 to go into cash app but mine wasn’t working so she had me go to a bitcoin atm and deposit the funds. After what we thought was our last trip the last day she stated that something came up with the programming and they would need $1000 from my personal funds to cover the rest. And thats when i caught on to the situation and I didnt send them any money from there. But now their check bounced and took any money i had in my account to cover it and I’m still negative.

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