Jay.gomes@careerstaffingsourcing.com Reports & Reviews

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- Cumming, GA, USA

Scammer's phone (415) 868-4916
Scammer's website www.careerstaffingsourcing.com; https://upgradeskill.us/course/scrum-master-certified-platinum; https://www.cprime.com/learning/courses/psm-certification-training-course
Scammer's address 201 Spear Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Total money lost $550
Type of a scam Employment

On Jan. 17, 2025, they posed as IT recruiters sourcing Sr. IT Technical Writer position with project management experience at HP. I was first contacted via phone by a man named "Arun" (628-208-0511) at "Career Staffing Sourcing." He told me they'd seen my info on LinkedIn, and they were recruiting for positions at Hewlett Packard (HP), which was moving their production from China to Thailand. He said if I was interested, the Sr Recruiter named "Jay Gomes" would soon be contacting me to discuss the position. Jay contacted me (also by phone from 415-868-4916) and later by email (from [email protected]) sending me what looked like a legitimate job description. He said one of the requirements was that you had to have a Scrum Master Certified (SMC) certification or be in the process of getting the certification because the role involved managing Agile projects. He emailed me two links for online courses that he said would be acceptable. I had been thinking of getting this certification anyway, so I was willing to get it and to move forward with the interview process. I had to reply back with my enrollment showing I had enrolled in one of the online courses. He then said I would have a 30-minute interview the following Friday with one of the HP team members. I was expecting to receive a meeting invitation with the person's name because that's how other interviews I'd had with other companies handled interviews. When I didn't receive an invitation by the Wednesday before the scheduled interview, I emailed Jay asking asking who would be interviewing me and asking about the meeting invitation. He said the person would call me at the appointed time and sent me the supposed LinkedIn profile link for the person. (Ironically, that person does indeed work in the HR department at HP but had no knowledge about any of this.) Jay even sent me a reminder email the day before the interview. On 1/21/25, I contacted a former colleague who I knew was now working at HP. I told him about the upcoming job interview and joked that perhaps we might be working together again. Through a series of communications, my contact started questioning various things about the role in an effort to perhaps put in an internal recommendation for me. On 1/24/25 I had a 1/2-hour phone interview with "Devin," the supposed HR rep at HP, who told me he was initially screening candidates and those that made it to the next round would then interview with the hiring manager. I thought it was odd that he never asked me anything about my previous tech writing experiences. He essentially asked me the same 3 questions in different ways the whole 30 minutes, all dealing with project and people management. I thought that was a little strange and felt a little blind-sided. Toward the end of the conversation, he explained next steps and said they would notify me in a week or so if I had made it to the next round. I tried to shrug it off the strangeness of the interview but finally tried to call Jay on 1/29/25 to talk to him about it. When I got no answer on his phone, I sent him an email requesting a call. He responded asking if he could call me the next morning. He never did. When I didn't hear anything for several days, I began to think I had been led down a bunny trail and just didn't get the job. On 2/3/25, I sent a message to this effect to my former colleague. He had kindly begun trying to look further into the role. He reached out to the HR person whose LinkedIn profile I had been sent. Today, 2/5/25, he reported back that this person said they had never met with me. This is when it became patently obvious I had been scammed. Meanwhile I had logged onto the upgradeskill.us website and done some of the training which all looks very legitimate (it is video based and then you take tests) and tracks your progress. I also received hard copy study materials through the mail. I even got a "welcome" email from Kim Bains, Senior Account Executive, (347) 952-4595, fax (347) 959-4545, [email protected], 5555 LONG BEACH BLVD., APT 122 LONG BEACH, CA 90805. After hearing about the scam from my former colleague, I started to look further into whether the certification of this particular website I had enrolled with (https://upgradeskill.us/course/scrum-master-certified/) was well regarded in the industry. As I started to research it online, I quickly learned that it was indeed part of the scam reported by other users.

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