Fraud Warning: Laowai Career Center China Job Scam
Posted: 17 Feb 2017, 02:43
Anyone who has lived and worked in Beijing for more than five years will know a good looking Russian guy famous for running a bunch of sophisticated scams online with call centers located at Dongzhimen, Galaxy Soho (closed by the cops in 2015) and Zhongguancun. Here is a list of his last scams:
Olympic Escort Service (provided "entertainment" to tourists during the 2008 Beijing Olympics)
Getin2China (sold fake visas for years before the PSB shut him down)
China Job Express (Sold fake university degrees for $1,000 to China job applicants)
Gi2c (Sold China internships for $3999 that people could get for free)
Wiseway Gobal (Charged sudent's $20,000 to fillout their university enrollment applications)
Well now that all of the old scams were exposed he started a new one where his web site says all the right things but when you are the phone with him or his sales reps, they actually tell you to lie on your visa application (a felony crime) in order to get an F, or M visa. In reality you must have a Z or work visa to work legally in China!
I never even applied with these people and they called me a few days ago offering me a $30,000 job to train TEFL teachers in Beijing. They claimed to have my resume but would not tell me how they got. I went along for the ride (not knowing yet that this was another Yuri company). The following day I had a Skype interview with a guy named "John Maxwell" who claimed to be the "HR Director" of a Chinese company that he said so quickly I could not recall it now. The interview seemed legit but when he asked me if I had any questions, I asked "What is the address of your company in Beijing and your web site address." He evaded my question completely claiming he had another interview to do and hung up on me after simply saying "we'll be in touch soon".
This morning "Mary" called me to say they needed scans of my passport. I said that would not be a problem but I would need the name and address for the company where "John Maxwell" worked. She claimed she was not able to provide that information because it "violated their privacy policy". The sweet girl then said she needed scans of my passport so she could process my application. I asked Mary for her full name because at first I was going to send her my passport scan by SF courier and they require complete names. But instead of giving me her legal name she said "Just write Mary Consultant". But when I pushed her for her last name she said "I am the only Mary here so you can write any last name you want"!
So then I asked her who owned her company Laowai Career Center and what was the street location address so I could just bring my passport over for her to scan it. She put me on hold and never came back to the phone! I waited 7 minutes and then called back to her but she did not answer. I tried three more times and then discovered she had blocked my phone number.
So this made me really curious and of course suspicious. So I started googling online and found this about 15 minutes ago. https://www.scam.com/showthread.php?704 ... ost1944379. And now you all know why I am posting this warning. I have to leave for work now so spread the word guys. These people are bad news IMO.
Olympic Escort Service (provided "entertainment" to tourists during the 2008 Beijing Olympics)
Getin2China (sold fake visas for years before the PSB shut him down)
China Job Express (Sold fake university degrees for $1,000 to China job applicants)
Gi2c (Sold China internships for $3999 that people could get for free)
Wiseway Gobal (Charged sudent's $20,000 to fillout their university enrollment applications)
Well now that all of the old scams were exposed he started a new one where his web site says all the right things but when you are the phone with him or his sales reps, they actually tell you to lie on your visa application (a felony crime) in order to get an F, or M visa. In reality you must have a Z or work visa to work legally in China!
I never even applied with these people and they called me a few days ago offering me a $30,000 job to train TEFL teachers in Beijing. They claimed to have my resume but would not tell me how they got. I went along for the ride (not knowing yet that this was another Yuri company). The following day I had a Skype interview with a guy named "John Maxwell" who claimed to be the "HR Director" of a Chinese company that he said so quickly I could not recall it now. The interview seemed legit but when he asked me if I had any questions, I asked "What is the address of your company in Beijing and your web site address." He evaded my question completely claiming he had another interview to do and hung up on me after simply saying "we'll be in touch soon".
This morning "Mary" called me to say they needed scans of my passport. I said that would not be a problem but I would need the name and address for the company where "John Maxwell" worked. She claimed she was not able to provide that information because it "violated their privacy policy". The sweet girl then said she needed scans of my passport so she could process my application. I asked Mary for her full name because at first I was going to send her my passport scan by SF courier and they require complete names. But instead of giving me her legal name she said "Just write Mary Consultant". But when I pushed her for her last name she said "I am the only Mary here so you can write any last name you want"!
So then I asked her who owned her company Laowai Career Center and what was the street location address so I could just bring my passport over for her to scan it. She put me on hold and never came back to the phone! I waited 7 minutes and then called back to her but she did not answer. I tried three more times and then discovered she had blocked my phone number.
So this made me really curious and of course suspicious. So I started googling online and found this about 15 minutes ago. https://www.scam.com/showthread.php?704 ... ost1944379. And now you all know why I am posting this warning. I have to leave for work now so spread the word guys. These people are bad news IMO.