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Gunther International Offshore Company - Geneva Empolyment Scam!! Geneva, Other
I got this job offer, It was called Gunther international offshore company Inc. They were looking for customer service of escrow agent. Well for me it was a job offer and I was excited, so I looked into it. They had me send them my application fill out a questionnaire and then offered me the job. In the meantime while waiting for their response I had gone to an international website verified that they were a business in Switzerland they are registered. Didn't find any type of information in regards of this was not a legitimate company so I felt safe to go ahead and work for them. Once that was decided they sent me a contract that they wanted me decided return which of course I complied. So here now I think I am employed by a legitimate company in Switzerland.
Was ready to start and it was February 1, 2011. Starting a whole new chapter of employment. The job details were doing some minimal transactions where the client would fund money into my PayPal account which then I in return withdraw the money and Western Union it to another client. (I know what you're thinking I did to, but I thought legitimate companies can have you sign the contract have a website etc.). Another part of my job after the training which was two weeks in Switzerland at their training facility to get license as an escrow agent. So until that time they wanted to make sure that you can transfer money and handle other aspects of the job. One of those was to inspect cargo that was being shipped overseas from one client to another. I was off to Miami for my first job of overseeing cargo being loaded.
I was extremely excited that great I finally have a job that you give me a little excitement. Well unfortunately the client that held up for sees so of course that trip was delayed. Meanwhile I'm still making transactions for the company. As the correspondence between me and Naomi (temporary supervisor until after training). She would send me information as to who was sending payments how much they were sending and that I was to let her know when it hit my PayPal account. Which I did then I would get instructions to withdraw some money and send it off to someone else in another country. And this was the norm for the month of February and early March. The Miami trip was rescheduled, for March 19 they had purchased a ticket in my name from Phoenix to Miami, I even had flight insurance. The next day I was notified client would not be able to be at the location and trip was canceled.
Then I started getting notifications from PayPal that the client was disputing all these charges. I notified Naomi with Gunther international offshore company advised her on what was going on and sent her all the information I was receiving from PayPal in regards to the client. She advised me show for that to their finance department and get back to me. So I thought things were fine in they would get everything taken care of. Low and behold no correspondence from Gunther anymore. Phone numbers have all been disconnected. So I started sending e-mails, no responses from any of the e-mail addresses that I have. Website has now been deleted. Contacted PayPal let them know was having problems with employer. Week later still no response, sending e-mails with receipts requested never received a receipt sure no one has read my correspondence.
Finally I decided I've been scammed and now PayPal is coming after me for all this money, that I of course don't have and the company has left me high and dry. I filed a report with our local police department. I filed a report with the Federal Bureau of investigation's Internet crime. And so far it seems I'm still left out in the cold. Did receive a letter from the police department stating they reviewed my case them are not actively pursuing it but it's not that it's gone away they're just other important things besides mine more or less. So here I am stuck with the $28,000.00 debt in my name with PayPal. They of course are coming after me.