Complaint Review: Florida One

Florida One advertizes work-at-home using internet doing research, paying $24,000 per year, after an initial probation period, which is supposedly also paid.

Assignment One went well enough ("diet for 260-pound female with arterial hypertension"). I wrote 2-page report after spending perhaps 3 hours, using 3 sources (Wikipedia for 2 of them). Got congratulated on finishing first report.

Before opening email with Assignment Two, I received call from virtual assistant using the number listed for them, but claiming she lived in Ohio and was retired military, encouraging me on finishing first task and wanting to know when I could be expected to start second.

Assignment Two was much more challenging ("contact Russian artist Slobodeniuk Vladimir to get replacement painting for valuable painting purchased by client and damaged..."). Website link and email address was provided, with advice to proceed with urgency, money no object. This is when it began to be suspicious....I suspect since I was to "contact the Artist...negotiate...Follow up...so the client gets his copy ASAP. It has to be shipped to San Diego, CA" that I would soon be asked to fund such a transaction in some way...

Website was in Russian (though I was told the artist speaks English) with no translation possible. Google of the name turned up no such artist, except a circus clown, though it also turned up a 15-year-old Ukrainian chess player.

Ripoff Report already has one disgruntled victim, and other searches of scam advisers turned up comments about a virtual office in Miami, isp address in Illinois, and people physically located in Kansas.

Minneapolis Craigslist has this to say:

Florida One, aka itdac.com are advertising for a work from home "personal assistant" position that allegedly pays $2K a month. They ask for a resume and an online application. Once they get your information they disappear. Their phone number (305-517-7300) is a recording and their websites account has been "suspended"! BEWARE!!

It would also pay to read the comments at  http://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/itdac.com.