I enjoy it every time if a scammer or a businessman who has not fulfilled his commercial due diligence gets in contact with me and tries to explain that he is not a scammer. In the most cases are the scammers confirming their fraud.
Shortly after I have published the article Scammer: Sept Consult - Sebastien Serret - Restaurant booking at the Seychelles I got a contact request at LinkedIn from Sebastien Serret:
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Yesterday, Sebastien Serret said the following:
Good Morning Mr Rudolf, I came across your post about me and my company and was wondering about your conslusions. Request to please clarify your points. Thank you
3:24 AM (GMT+1)
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Yesterday, Rudolf Faix said the following:
Good morning Sebastien, please feel free to clarify the points.
3:30 AM (GMT+1)
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Yesterday, Sebastien Serret said the following:
we are a very young management company not the direct client for this project and the chain of restaurants is not based in Seychelles nor Mauritius. Our company is duly registerered in Seychelles for a business strategic reason only and we provide our proof of address and ID from Mauritius as well to any center that we work with. Though we agree that there was a typo error in the MOU regarding the refunded amount but we sent an email to correct it as soon as it was pointed out to us. Hence we would like to request to kindly remove this post. If it can be genuinely proved that we took money from centers and did not pay them or if we gave them some process and then do not pay, then I am totally responsible and will shamefully accept to be labelled as a scam but up and until then, please do the needful.
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Yesterday, Sebastien Serret said the following:
Please feel free to add me on Skype for any further information that you may require.
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Yesterday, Sebastien Serret said the following:
Skype ID: sedconsulteltd
3:43 AM (GMT+1)
A typo error in his favor found in a contract shows already the quality from the business of the scammer Sebastien Serret from SeptConsult Limited. I think that the intelligence from the scammer is very limited, because he likes to get the article removed by arguing about trivialities. I did not find anywhere some argument about the main important things like:
- Why does he not get paid from these ones which hired him?
- Who is booking at 3 am in the morning a table at a restaurant (the campaign need 10 agents for 24 hours)?
- Which size has the restaurant that it can handle the bookings received during one day from 10 seats, which are working around the clock?
To clarify these point I have answered:
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Yesterday, Rudolf Faix said the following:
The world largest restaurant is the Royal Dragon restaurant in Bangkok.(www.royal-dragon.com). It is even noted in the Guiness Book of records. They have a staff count of over 1,000 people. Do you like to know how many people are making the bookings for this restaurant? Maybe you can explain me who will make a booking at 3am a table at a restaurant? Maybe you can explain also why someone shall pay something for getting work? This one, which hired you for the campaign has to pay you and not this one, which makes the work,
4:04 AM (GMT+1)
The scammer Sebastien Serret needed 11 hours for sending an answer to these questions and again there is no answer to the open questions. He has sent me the following answer:
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Yesterday, Sebastien Serret said the following:
Though we understand your point we also are very clear as to why we charge a security deposit but at no point do we harass or pressure the centers to pay us.
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Yesterday, Sebastien Serret said the following:
We will send you proof, reference and even offer you a visit by the end of the month to be able verify about us. If by that time we are not able to do so like I said we will accept all claims.
3:04 PM (GMT+1)
The scammer Sebastien Serret has confirmed the scam with the above answer. He had not one question answered which I have sent to him. Additional does he need one more month for faking proofs.
He has only converted the "application fees" into a "security deposit". In the MOU is written:
Note: Whereas the Centre is engaged in this type/nature of work and whereas he has represented to the Client to this effect and is keen to undertake and execute this work by paying Application Fees of $ 2,000 upon signature of this MOU.
The offer is nothing else than a advance fee scam. A security deposit has to get paid to the center because they are investing their workforce into the campaign and not to this one, which is investing NOTHING!
The proofs will have the same quality like the recommendations he has given for others in his LinkedIn profile (.pdf). There is written
- September 25, 2015, Sebastien worked with Céline at Rogers Outsourcing Solutions
- April 8, 2013, Sebastien managed Ericka at AXA Customer Services
- March 20, 2013, Sebastien worked directly with Khatleen at Sedeco
but we find about his own experience only:
- Chief Executive Officer
SeptConsult Limited
2014 – Present (2 years) | Seychelles
- Chairman of the Board of Directors
SedConsulte Limited
October 2013 – September 2015 (2 years) | République de Maurice
- Conseiller à l'Environnement et l'Eco-Système (English: Adviser at the environmental and ecosystem)
Consulat Honoraire de l'Union des Comores (English: Honorary Consulate of the Comoros)
July 2014 – February 2015 (8 months) | République de Maurice
It is every time very suspect if someone tries to hide something in his experience. A search at Google with the keyword SedConsulte Limited returned two more LinkedIn profiles where the owners have removed SedConsulte Limited from their profile:
Additional got found:
It is very suspicious if a small company got shut down and everybody tries to hide the information that he has been working for the company. In the most cases is the reason for such a behavior that the company has been a fraud one.