5Star Concierge LLC Jaime Bountres The scam artists are always with us! New York, New York
When something sounds too good to be true.... Right.
Seems Career Builder should be more alert to scams. I also applied for a PT position with this outfit, although I had misgivings.
I was also given the "limousine/luxury car rental" assignment. This was followed by an assignment to track down an original mother-child statue made of mammoth tusk. A Russian-language website was given as contact information, although the gallery wasn't named, nor was there a street/city address on the site. The contact telephone number had a country code that was incorrect. There is no number 7 country code. The "info@" address seemed to indicate Moscow, Russia. Russia's country code is 8. I tried calling the given number with both country codes and got error messages.
As for the second assignment: an "original" piece of art work is copyrighted or protected by law. Asking if a duplicate can be made for a client sets off alarms. I would like to know what form this scam takes after one has "passed the approbation [sic] period". Likely, there's a request for banking information so that a payment of $1200 can be wired to the account.
Be on the lookout for scam "secret shopper" rip-offs, as well.