Offshore Outsourcing & Scammer

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Skype Scammer: katsunori1207 - Edward Armah Mensah - from Accra, Ghana

A typical advanced fee scam has reached me today on Skype. With the promise of a few million dollars the scammer tries to get some upfront payments for different faked reasons.This scam is well-known already. What makes this scam interesting is the fact that the picture and the name got taken from the real bank Agricultural Development Bank from Ghana. They have a description and pictures of their staff at their website: http://www.agricbank.com/about-us/management/. From there the scammer has taken the name and the picture for using it on Skype:

Edward Armah MensahEdward Ian Armah-Mensah

Executive Head - Corporate Banking

He joined ADB from Barclays Bank Ghana Limited where he was Head of SME (Medium Unit). He had earlier worked at Stanbic Bank as an Account Relationship Manager and Credit and Marketing Manager at NDK Financial Services Limited. He holds an Executive Masters in Business Administration (Finance Option) and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

 

The invitation message on  Skype from Edward Armah Mensah:

*** Edward Armah Mensah möchte Sie auf Skype hinzufügen

 

Enter a message to introduce yourself.Hello Rudolf,

 

How are you today? My name is Edward Armah Mensah , I am Executive Head Corporate Banking with Agricultural Development Bank (ADB) here in Accra, Ghana. I am writing this letter to you because of your surname. I have been in search of someone with your last name, so when I saw your name I was propelled to contact you for this opportunity and hope we can worktogether.Late Jim Rudolf, a citizen of your country, who had a fixed deposit with my bank here in Ghana in 2009 for 36 calendar months, valued at US{$10.900 000 00} the due date for this deposit contract was last November 2013. Jim Rudolf, was among the death victims in the march 11th 2011 Earthquake disaster in Japan, He was in Japan on a business trip when the Earthquake happened.

 

My bank management is not yet know about his death, I knew about it because he was my friend and I am his account officer. Jim  did not mention any beneficiary when the account was opened, and i have tried without success to find any member of his family. Last week my Bank Management requested that i should give instructions on what to do about the funds, if to renew the contract.I know this will happen and that is why I have been looking for a means to handle the situation, because if my Bank Directors happens to know that "Jim is dead and do not have any beneficiary to the funds, they will take the funds for their personal use, so I don't want such to happen. That was why when I saw your last name I was happy and I am now seeking your co-operation to present you as beneficiary to the account, since you have the same last name with him and our bank head quarters will approve the transfer of the funds in your name because your surname is the only thing that qualifies you to stand as the beneficiary of Jim.

 

There is no risk involved because i am equally part of this process therefore you can be assured that this process will be a success for us. I don't want the bank to confiscate the money, meanwhile if you are interested please kindly write me through my private email address below.

 

Waiting to hear from you.

 

Regards,

 

Mr. Edward Armah Mensah

Email: edw-me-adb1967@outlook.com

Executive Head Corporate Banking ***

The Skype profile of Edward Armah Mensah:

Skype profile of Edward Armah Mensah

 

Scammer: Rohit Malhotra - Accent Technologies - USA Airlines Customer Care INBOUND Process

Accent TechnologiesThe new SCAM campaign from Rohit Malhotra is a USA Airlines Customer Care INBOUND Process (United Airlines). 

We know Rohit Malhotra already from the article Scammer: Rohit Malhotra - Accent Technologies with missing geography knowledge.

According the U.S. law is not one company able to outsource a customer support process to a country where the customer data protection is not guaranteed by law. See the explanations at Why all this offered offshore outsourcing campaigns where customer data are involved are nothing else then SCAM? and U.S. data protection law.

A similar warning got sent out on May 5, 2015 from campaignprovider.com:

USA Airlines Inbound (www.united.com) : We did contact the management team of United Airlines Inc, and they have confirmed that they are not looking for any Customer Support/ Inbound Team or Center.

 

One email from Rohit Malhotra:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Accent Technologies <accentt7@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:51 AM
Subject: USA Airlines Customer Care INBOUND Process
To: Accent Technologies <accentt7@gmail.com>


USA Airlines Customer Care INBOUND Process 

Language Used : ENGLISH 

Find attachment for details of "PROCESS +  PROCEDURE + PAYOUT + Our CHARGES + About Client " * mentioned in index of attachment"

WE ARE NOT CONSULTANT. 

Skype us on : accent.technologies1

Call us on : "  +91  8284009208  "

             "  +91  8054143789 "

Rohit Malhotra

Accent Technologies

Accent Technologies

Disclaimer: Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of my firm shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it.

Attachment: USA_Process.pdf (520.24 kb)

Today I got a second email forwarded:

 

From: Accent Technologies [mailto:accentt7@gmail.com
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2015 time removed
To: corporate
Subject: Fwd: SLA

 

 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: united Airlines Inc. <support@united.com>
Date: Mon, May 4, 2015 time removed
Subject: SLA
To: accentt7@gmail.com

Dear valued center,

 United is focused on being the airline customers want to fly, the airline employees want to work for and the airline shareholders want to invest in. 

  • World’s most comprehensive global route network, including world-class international gateways to Asia and Australia, Europe, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East with non-stop or one-stop service from virtually anywhere in the United States
  • A modern fleet which is the most fuel-efficient among U.S. network carriers (when adjusted for cabin size)
  • Industry-leading loyalty program that provides more opportunities to earn and redeem miles worldwide
  • Optimal hub locations, including hubs in the four largest cities in the United States
  • More than 84,000 employees reside in every U.S. state and in countries around the world

We had recently done NDA signup with xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (name removed), Now   we are moving to next step called SLA by signing this  agreement which indicates / Explains all  the requirements / Working Terms / Future Plans / Calls & Quality Parameters  and also some terms and conditions.

By Signing  this  agreement  Call Center ( First Party ) indicates that they are agree with below mentioned terms & conditions / Quality / Work or  other requirements.

 

Note: - Accent Technologies will be responsible or take care to arrange call , work flow , further signup / meeting tasks or verification of call center.

James (Jim) Compton

Member of the Board of Directors

Linda Jojo

Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer

 

Attachment: SLA.pdf (787.37 kb)

Update May 8, 2015:

A statement of United has arrived which confirms the fraud:

From: CustomerCare@united.com [mailto:customercare@united.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 8:53 PM
To: corporate
Subject: Re: [Attachments Contain URLs!] Experience (KMM26630439V25738L0KM)

 

Dear:

 

The fraudulent email you described is not from United Airlines. Please do not respond to this letter with any of your personal information. If you have any questions regarding our products and services, please visit us on united.com.

 

We appreciate your sharing this with us and look forward to welcoming you on board soon.

 

Regards,

 

Katherine Dawson

Customer Care

RE: 8976676

 

Scam campaign from mpavistechnologies.com

mpavistechnologies.comI had one campaign listed from mpavistechnologies.com, which has not been scam. I have delisted this campaign as soon as I found Tech Support offers from mpavistechnolgies in Facebook. The tech support offers are all scam. The calls are getting generated by scareware, which is called computer fraud. From advertisements, even on Google, you'll not get enough calls, that it will be profitable to sell the calls. All the consumer protection organizations around the world are already warning about the "Tech Support calls".

I got forwarded a campaign from mpavistechnlogies.com. mpavistechnologies.com did not send me the campaign description directly, because they know that I'll classify such a campaign only as scam.

Q & A

You will be calling potential customers all over the U.S. Looking for customers, who are interested, cooperative, are the home owner and are not currently under contract with another security company.  You will live transfer those calls to our closing agents.

Do you charge set up fees?
We do not charge set up fees nor do we charge for the right to do the campaign. All we ask is that you pay for your VOIP.

We are investing in you - We supply the dialer, Leads and the VAKA (non-voice software). This all costs money that we provide to you for free - We also are investing our time, not only getting you set up, but also the initial and ongoing training.

 

  • If you decide to supply the dialer, then are the costs of the dialer your problem and not the problem of the call center. The call center can do nothing to influence this costs and for this are this costs not the problem of the center. Any existing dialer or the call center is not increasing his value because it is not get used. 

  • Data and leads are the problem of the client. If the data or the leads are not good, then the best call center will fail. 

  • You like to use VAKA, for this are the costs for the software your problem and not the problem of the center. If you think VAKA is the best solution for you, then you need to supply it and you'll never be able to bill it to the call center.

  • You are investing your time? If you decide to that a call center has to use your system, then you have to train them on your software. For this you get paid from the client!

So you have can even not say that you are investing already enough for the center if you are really investing NOTHING!!!

 

What are the VOIP charges?
The cost of the VOIP is .0079 per minute - You should budget $2 - $4 per agent per day

Can you use your own VOIP Provider?
No. We require that everyone use our VOIP provider, both the opening centers and the closing centers. The reason we do it is to avoid all the tech issues and to provide you with accurate reporting on all calls. Our calling plan allows for all the calls to be connected through tier one and two providers and offer more termination points and outgoing channels that any other provider. Because everyone is on the same system, using the same VOIP provider we do not experience latency issues, echoes, delays and disconnections. The calls are clean and flawless.

Do you profit from the centers using your VOIP Provider?
No. We do not profit from this. You get charged, what we get charged.

Can you deduct the VOIP from future payouts?
The VOIP must be prepaid in order to get started. It is not our VOIP Company (3rd party) - We do not pay it for you.
We will set up the VOIP account for you and provide you with the web portal and show you how to proceed

You will have complete control, as you will have access to the Web Portal (VOIP provider) there, you will be able to load your minutes and receive your VOIP reports

As you provide dialer, leads, client software, etc. you should not search for call centers, which are paying your VoIP minutes. The call centers have no possibility to influence the dialing behavior, the data quality and all surroundings. For this you have to provide the VoIP minutes too. In this case you can run your own center with your own agents. For what you'll need some call centers in this case? With this offer you show that you need them only for paying your phone bills and the salary of the agents!!!

YOU SHOW WITH THIS OFFER ALREADY THAT YOU NOT TRUST INTO THE CAMPAIGN!!!

PayPal
You must set up a PayPal account both to make payment to VOIP provider and to receive payment from us. It is really simple to do - Just go to their website and set up an account - It is the easiest method and the cheapest

What is the pay out?
We will pay you $6 per transfer, with a 60 second buffer

What is a 60 second buffer and why is it needed?
A 60 second buffer means, that when the call is transferred the closing agent has 60 seconds to determine if the transferred call was a qualified transfer, meaning the customer was interested, cooperative, was the home owner (not a renter) and was not under contract with another security company - if the call goes 60 seconds or greater, the transferred call will be considered billable and therefore you will be paid on it.

Here you show exactly what I have said before. You don't trust your data and your product. For this you offer a pay per sale. You are proofing that already in your next sentence "they must be a home owner". With this you show that you have data, but they are not selected to be from home owners. The call center shall sort the data out for you. With such data you can only offer a pay per hour per agent!!!

What are the qualifications for a transferred call?
There are 2 criteria for the calls to be transferred - 1) they must be a home owner and not a renter 2) they must not be under contract with another security company. They can have a preexisting security system; they just can’t be under contract, meaning the contract must have expired. We cannot accept either of the above - Therefore, it is in the agreement - If we see that you are transferring an unacceptable amount of renters or customers that are under contract, we will terminate the arrangement. - It means your agents are not doing their jobs, asking the correct questions and getting the correct answers

What can my center achieve?
That really all depends upon you and your agents - Your agents should be able to achieve 4 billable transfers per day each - Keep in mind, in an 8 hour day that is only 1 transfer every 2 hours. Your agents will be speaking to 500 people a day - That’s 1 out of every 125 people.

Your agents will be dialing 3000 - 5000 numbers per day each - speaking with between 300 - 500 customers a day

Let us make an example: In average a call gets answered after 3 times ringing. 3 times ringing is taking around 15 seconds. If we are dialing 3000 numbers then we can calculate the dialing time of 15 seconds * 3000 calls / 3600 = 12.5 hours for a 10 hours working day (Monday until Thursday).

The other way is you are using a dialer, which is already illegal in the USA. In this case you need to have a lot of money for the fine from the FTC. If you have millions of dollars why do you cry in this case about the VoIP minutes? It is nice from you that you are providing the dialer, because in this case you will get the punishment and not the center.

Take a look at http://news.wwpa.com/post/2015/04/30/ftc-and-ten-state-attorneys-general-take-action-against-political-survey-robocallers-pitching-cruise-line-vacations-to-the-bahamas. The responsible companies got punished with fines over 5 millions of dollars. Why are you crying about VoIP minutes and hourly rates for the agents if you have so much money in your wallet?

In any case your system is dialing and that need to be done on your own bill and not on the bill of the center. The center has no influence on this dial behavior.

 

What is your pay schedule?
The week starts on Friday and ends on Thursday - You will be paid the next day (Friday) - You will be paid via PayPal.

Is it possible to send payment to our international merchant account?
No, only if it is attached to your PayPal Account.

Calling Schedule
All times are based on EST. At present, we are open from 9am - 7pm EST Monday - Thursday, 9am - 5pm EST, Friday and 12pm - 5pm EST on Saturday.

53 hours of calling per week = 3180 minutes * 0.0079 = 25.122 $/week or in average 4.187 per day (6 days)

Training.
The scripts and training, we will provide them once the agreement is returned

Please go to tmicomm.com and watch the demo video.
I will personally do a live the training session with all your agents. The training will last approximately 1 1/2 hours. The training is divided into 4 sections 1) Background on the campaign 2) Dialer how it works – how to transfer 3) VAKA – How it works – how the system is laid out, what the recordings to use and when 4) listen to sample recordings of agents on their first days on the job. This will illustrate what the agents can expect and what not to do. It will get them past the learning curve quickly.

Your agents will then role play with each other - One will act as the customer, the other the agent. This will help get them familiarized with the system. Once you feel the agents are proficient, you will be free to start dialing.

Reports Disclosure
You will receive reports everyday showing exactly how many transfers were sent, how many of them where billable, all call durations and how much money is due.

You will also be granted admin access to the dialer reports. You will be able to live monitor your agent’s calls. Have access to all the recordings both, on the opening side and also on the closing side. In addition, you will be able to monitor your agent’s activity. You will know when they sign in, when they are on pause, how many calls they took and the result.

How long does it take to set up?
The set up process is very easy. Once we receive the agreement back, we will set you up in the system. Once that is complete, we will set up your VOIP account. You will then prepay your VOIP. Once set up you will change the audio settings on each agents work station. It will take a few minutes for each one. We will provide explicit directions that are easy to follow. In the event, you still need help our tech department will assist you. The whole process lasts about an hour.

this is http://tmicomm.com/main/?page_id=32
training which we will follow

mpavistechnologies.com shows with this offer that they have no idea from the call center business and from the rules of the FTC. They are only searching for someone, which is taking the risk for their campaigns. This one, which takes the risk has no possibility to influence and reduce the risk.

 

 

E-Mail Scammer: Balasubramaniam calcsoft - balasubramaniam.calcsoft - CALC SOFT PVT LTD - calcsoft.net - AMAZE SOFTWARE

hand with money coming out of the monitorYesterday I got a spam email from the scammer Balasubramaniam calcsoft. Until now this scammer does not know that high sensitive personal data cannot get outsourced into a country where the protection of the data is not guaranteed. The client would make himself punishable if the personal data are coming into the public. There are already enough judgements from US courts available where clients have broken the data protection act. Similar is it in Europe.

The scammer does even not know that there is software available, which makes the copy & paste form filling process obsolete. So why shall pay a client for months or years more then US$ 1000 per agent, when he can get a better work without failures faster done by buying a software for less then US$ 500.

All the offered processes have something in common. The upfront fee is INR 100000 for each process. This already qualifies the scam because it shows that the scammer has no contract with the client. For this he cannot guarantee you something for your payment.

All offered campaigns are containing sensitive data, which are protected by the data protection act. You can take a look at a short overview about the data protection law in the different countries at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_privacy_law. Even some of the rules there are already outdated, because with the time the rules are coming more restrictive. For this you should follow the links there to get the actual information about the data protection law.

On the other side, there are everywhere at the point of sales computer placed. Customer data for all purposes are getting collected at the point of sales places. The get entered immediately. Afterwards the salesperson prints out the contract and the customer has to sign it. In the USA the customers are even signing on a touch pad for confirming the document. If you think that you have to fill forms for insurances, health care, loans, telecoms, etc. then you are wrong. A customer will not come a second time to the office for signing the form. He will go there, where his wish will get fulfilled immediately. Today nobody will wait until his form will get prepared after weeks!

For all this reasons all the form filling processes are nothing else than SCAM.

 

Von: Balasubramaniam calcsoft <balasubramaniam.calcsoft@gmail.com>
an:  
bcc: an Sie
Datum: 1. Mai 2015 um 21:31
Betreff: NON VOICE CAMPAIGN AVAILABLE SIGN UP WITH MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES
Gesendet von: gmail.com
Signiert durch: gmail.com

Hello Sir/Mam
 
Please find the attachements 
 
As per your requirement on the projects pls go through the below details :
 
Step 1 : Need to select the process you want to start from the  provided details
 
Step 2 : If required to verify the SLA,  need to sign the NDA and we will provide the draft SLA for your reference.
 
Step 3 : After all the verification if you are interested to go ahead for the signup forward your Company profile
representative (in case of offline process).
 
Step 4 : Consultancy charge should be paid 
 
Step 4 : Based upon the above we will take a prior appointment with the client for the signup purpose and also  the agreement documents will be prepared.
 
Step 5 : On the fixed appointment we will make you meet the client,  you can discuss anything and everything with the client regarding the process.
 
Step 6 : Do the Signup 
                                                                                                                                                    
Once the signup is done your online training and demo work will start.
 
Captions of the Projects given below 
 
CONSUMER UTILITY BILL INDEXATION
 
E LOAN INSURANCE FORM FILLING
 
CIVIC ENUMERATION FORM FILLING
 
E-COMMERCE FORM FILLING PROCESS
 
FINANCIAL FORM FILLING
 
HEALTH INSURANCE FORM FILLING PROCESS
 
TELECOM FOR FILLING DETAILS
 
US HEALTH CARD PROCESS DETAILS
 
TELECOM_VERIFICATION_PROCESS_FORM_FILLING
 
MEDICAL_BILLING_FORM_FILLING
 
 
*DURATION OF CONTRACT: 11 MONTHS INITIALLY CAN BE EXTENDED UP TO 3 YEARS*
 
Interested centers please revert back asap with their company Profiles.
New centers will be also excepted, no need of experience.
 
 
 
Thanks & Regards
 
Balasubramaniam
CALC SOFT PVT LTD 
Skype id :balasubramaniam.calcsoft
Contact no:+917358203023

 

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Scammer: Mohamed Elsayed - Kevin Steve - Kareem Sallam from Egypt is searching for new victims

The scammer Kareem Sallam aka Kevin Steve seems to be a chameleon. He is using different names and fake pictures and names in his fraud. All profiles have in common his domains: streamtelecom.net and connect2phone.net.

Actually he has a new idea to scam people. He likes to get direct access to the earnings of the call centers as we can see in the actual posts at LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/grp/post/4092566-5999628717620502532):

Kevin Steve Executive Director

 

We are partnered with various US sponsoring banks for high-risk merchants as well as multiple offshore banks. I place merchants with Direct MID accounts for specifically "hard to place" business types

The entire application process is done over the phone in minutes on our SSL level 3 secure servers and with our digital signature approval process; we do not need a physical signature. I am glad to answer all of your questions and help your business increase profits accepting credit cards today.

CALL ME TODAY AND START ACCEPTING CARDS WITH STREAM BY TOMORROW!

In his LinkedIn profile we find the connection to Stream Telecom (streamtelecom.net). The domain streamtelecom.net is registered on the name Mohamed Elsayed from Egypt, a high risk country for getting scammed. Very suspicious is that at the LinkedIn page for streamtelecom.net is written that it got founded in the year 2005 and the domain got registered on January 9, 2014. A company which should have a staff count between 201 and 500 and which should be located in the USA, does not have a website during 9 years?

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On the website https://who.securepaynet.net/whois?domain=streamtelecom.net&prog_id=429246 we find the company address for Stream Telecom

Business Information

Stream Telecom
+1.(866) 978-7098 Phone
382 NE 191st St,
Miami, Florida 33179
United States

 

 

If we search for a registered address at http://visulate.com/rental/visulate_search.php?CORP_ID=L14000008986 then we get an output of a lot possible addresses but not a real one.

A search at http://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/GetDocument?aggregateId=flal-l14000008986-0b7a33a5-d0f3-4dcc-9eda-175f1e7650f6&transactionId=l14000008986-31ee53cd-92b0-49ee-aab5-640768af8a19&formatType=PDF is more informative. We find out that the Authorized Person Detail is:

Mohamed Elsayed - Kevin Steve - Kareem SallamMohamed Elsayed - Kevin Steve - Kareem SallamMohamed Elsayed - Kevin Steve - Kareem SallamTitle: MANAGING MEMBER
Name: SALLAM, KAREEM M
Address: 228 PARK AVE S 38802
City-State-Zip: NEW YORK NY 10003

 

 

At the site http://www.betternetworker.com/members/kmsallam confirms Kareem Sallam that the his websites are http://www.connect2phone.net and http://www.streamtelecom.net.

As the domain streamtelecom.net hides the ownership behind a proxy service, we are more lucky with the domain connect2phone.net:

Domain Name: CONNECT2PHONE.NET
Registry Domain ID: 1821332099_DOMAIN_NET-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.wildwestdomains.com
Registrar URL: [link removed] Date: 2014-08-07T21:13:18Z
Creation Date: 2013-08-12T12:47:10Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2015-08-12T12:47:10Z
Registrar: Wild West Domains, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 440
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.480-624-2505
Reseller: DomainRightNow
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited [link removed] Status: clientUpdateProhibited [link removed] Status: clientRenewProhibited [link removed] Status: clientDeleteProhibited [link removed] Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Mohamed Elsayed
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: ElShoubak
Registrant City: Shiebeen-ElQanater
Registrant State/Province:
Registrant Postal Code: 13871
Registrant Country: Egypt
Registrant Phone: 201008076143
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: Mohamed Elsayed
Admin Organization:
Admin Street: ElShoubak
Admin City: Shiebeen-ElQanater
Admin State/Province: Qaluobia
Admin Postal Code: 13871
Admin Country: Egypt
Admin Phone: 20108076143
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
Admin Fax Ext:
Registry Tech ID:
Tech Name: Mohamed Elsayed
Tech Organization:
Tech Street: ElShoubak
Tech City: Shiebeen-ElQanater
Tech State/Province: Qaluobia
Tech Postal Code: 13871
Tech Country: Egypt
Tech Phone: 20108076143
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax:
Tech Fax Ext:
Name Server: NS1.ITWORLDEG.COM
Name Server: NS2.ITWORLDEG.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: [link removed] update of WHOIS database: 2015-01-28T07:00:00Z

At LinkedIn we find already from April 13, 2014 a scam warning about this guy at

Clarissa Singson
Clarissa Singson Owner,Greenline Connect Outsourcing Services

BEWARE OF TRANSACTING KAREEM SALAM FROM CONNECT2PHONE!

FYI for Everyone I had the chance of working with someone named Kareem Salam from connect2phone. HE NEVER PAYS SO BEWARE IN TRANSACTING WITH HIM OR TO CONNECT2PHONE campaign.PLS SPREAD THIS!!!

If we take a look at http://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/connect2phone.net then we see there the warnings:

Alert Result: This website is 1 Years old
Alert Result: This website setup involves countries known to be high risk
Alert Result: This website is likely to be operating from a high risk country
 

And we find also some negative comments:

  • Pradeep Sk
    Pradeep Sk · Works at Intel Security
    This website is owned by Kareem Sallam who has mulitple websites with different names. They have lot of complaints against them as they are indulged in fraudulent activities.

    https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.campaignprovider.com%2Fforum%2Ftopics%2Ffraud-alert-wasla-outsourcing-kareem-sallam&ei=lwT1UsucD4XprAf_44CwCg&usg=AFQjCNFmzT-RLzhUM7RHG0uvQ1mtI1A_8w&sig2=kOWvYT58iwNx3pHNf7FK6g&bvm=bv.60799247,d.bmk

    http://www.wasla.com/

    tele-professionals.com

 

Summary: This case shows how important a background check before making business is. Brian Baily did not make a background check. For this we can see now his post at https://www.linkedin.com/grp/post/4026158-5998933984736722944:

Brian Bailey
Brian Bailey Chairman & Founder

SCAM ALERT BEWARE OF KEVIN STEVE ( STREAM TELECOM )

BEWARE .. BIG SCAM SCAM SCAM
A very big scammer........Beware of this guy as he is now working with a different name Kareem Sallam , Lives in Egypt but he got his company registered online
Stream Telecom LLC
Here are few links for your references
http://visulate.com/rental/visulate_search.php?CORP_ID=L14000008986 http://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/GetDocument?aggregateId=flal-l14000008986-0b7a33a5-d0f3-4dcc-9eda-175f1e7650f6&transactionId=l14000008986-31ee53cd-92b0-49ee-aab5-640768af8a19&formatType=PDF
which does not have any physical address .....
He will change his number every time he scams some one
He provides US CABLE TV and Satellite services Campaigns, Hire Centers and don't pay them.. Unfortunately I got trapped and lost my payments.. See guys I have lost my payments, So I would like all centers to enquire about the person with whom you are going to work. BEWARE of this Bloody fake guy. If you are working on a US CABLE TV and Satellite services, just for your safety, . I have lost my payments, So I dont want any other center to suffer .

Lets see if he comment here with his BS justification for not paying us ???

 

 

Kareem Sallam - contact center professionals.pdf (1.81 mb)

Kareem Sallam _ BetterNetworker.com.pdf (363.87 kb)

Kareem Sallam _ LinkedIn.pdf (5.34 mb)

Kareem Sallam – Google+.pdf (1.22 mb)

Kevin Steve _ LinkedIn.pdf (5.37 mb)

sunbiz org - Stream Telecom, LLC Annual Report.pdf (182.01 kb)

visulate com - Stream Telecom, LLC Corporate Details.pdf (1.83 mb)

Wasla Outsourcing Egypt ...on contact center world.pdf (1.31 mb)

Whois Lookup _ Domain Av...n Information - IM2Host.pdf (912.52 kb)

Update Feb. 25, 2016: Link to streamtelecom.net removed as the domain does already not exist.

Update Jan. 18, 2017: Link to connect2phone.net removed as the domain already does not exist. Removed the link to http://visulate.com/rental/visulate_search.php?CORP_ID=L14000008986 and to the Facebook profile
Pradeep Sk (https://www.facebook.com/pradeep.sk) because they are already returning error 404 - not found.