I was contacted by the company with what seemed like a reasonable opportunity for employment. I signed an agreement to be a private contractor for a month, pending satisfactory completion of a course of training, which required a test every week for four weeks. The training material was all related to shipping, but much of it seemed to be boiler-plate terms and conditions... still, it seemed legitimate.
After two weeks, I was notified that I would be considered for a special extra credit project, which would pay equal to the amount I was promised for completion of the training schedule. The total promised compensation for the training period was to be US$ 1800, and also US$1800 for the extra credit project.
I was introduced to the extra project like it was a big happy secret deal by my training manager, Mr. Daniel C. Polk. My job in this project was to use MY credit card to purchase "computers, printers, scanners, etc" for shipment to undisclosed locations, with elaborate instructions given for reimbursement of my card by making draws on Warren Transportation Co. funds. They never asked for my credit card or banking information. nor my social security number.(if this was identity theft it was pretty lame).
As it happens I do not have a conventional credit card, and I said so, declining to mention that I thought the scheme was pretty whack. They said no problem, they would look into getting me issued a company credit card. That was in week 3 of the training, and I never heard back from them about the card. I completed and sent in my week 4 test and they disappeared. My emails to Daniel started bouncing back, referencing a server in the Ukraine, Emails to Alice went through for a short while, but then her's bounced back too. The Company website, which had gone into repair and maintenance mode around October 5 or so, with a countdown timer, also disappeared and referenced a server in Ukraine, with the disconnect message in Russian language.
This has been one of the stranger experiences in my adult life, and I am disappointed: The job looked legitimate, and well suited to my experience and background. Then, all the coaching and encouraging words, coupled with the dense training materials... I even had a time-definite phone call from Human Resources in the UK, from a person I could not understand named Biatta, who asked silly HR type questions for 5 minutes and then signed off. According to my caller ID, the call did indeed originate from the UK. I was told later that I had "passed the psychological profile."
Very weird indeed. It appeared that when their little excercise with me was over, they rolled up the whole company. Very flattering, but I'd rather have the money and a real job. I have reported them to the FBI and offered to turn over everything I have on them, but have heard nothing back yet.
Warren Transportation Co. Reviews
I was contacted by the company with what seemed like a reasonable opportunity for employment. I signed an agreement to be a private contractor for a month, pending satisfactory completion of a course of training, which required a test every week for four weeks. The training material was all related to shipping, but much of it seemed to be boiler-plate terms and conditions... still, it seemed legitimate.
After two weeks, I was notified that I would be considered for a special extra credit project, which would pay equal to the amount I was promised for completion of the training schedule. The total promised compensation for the training period was to be US$ 1800, and also US$1800 for the extra credit project.
I was introduced to the extra project like it was a big happy secret deal by my training manager, Mr. Daniel C. Polk. My job in this project was to use MY credit card to purchase "computers, printers, scanners, etc" for shipment to undisclosed locations, with elaborate instructions given for reimbursement of my card by making draws on Warren Transportation Co. funds. They never asked for my credit card or banking information. nor my social security number.(if this was identity theft it was pretty lame).
As it happens I do not have a conventional credit card, and I said so, declining to mention that I thought the scheme was pretty whack. They said no problem, they would look into getting me issued a company credit card. That was in week 3 of the training, and I never heard back from them about the card. I completed and sent in my week 4 test and they disappeared. My emails to Daniel started bouncing back, referencing a server in the Ukraine, Emails to Alice went through for a short while, but then her's bounced back too. The Company website, which had gone into repair and maintenance mode around October 5 or so, with a countdown timer, also disappeared and referenced a server in Ukraine, with the disconnect message in Russian language.
This has been one of the stranger experiences in my adult life, and I am disappointed: The job looked legitimate, and well suited to my experience and background. Then, all the coaching and encouraging words, coupled with the dense training materials... I even had a time-definite phone call from Human Resources in the UK, from a person I could not understand named Biatta, who asked silly HR type questions for 5 minutes and then signed off. According to my caller ID, the call did indeed originate from the UK. I was told later that I had "passed the psychological profile."
Very weird indeed. It appeared that when their little excercise with me was over, they rolled up the whole company. Very flattering, but I'd rather have the money and a real job. I have reported them to the FBI and offered to turn over everything I have on them, but have heard nothing back yet.