Busy Bee Crafters ripoff, work at home company never delivered promised kit Emeryville California

CONTACT DATELINE NBC!  They were featured on this show in 1997-98 when their company was named Holiday Magic.  These criminals continued to rob people after the show aired.  Dateline should do a follow-up episode about them.  What follows is my experience with these con artists.  Go check their Facebook profiles, Helen Caswell of Oregon and Larry R. Nelson of Sacramento, CA and tell their friends what they did to you! 

I once worked for this company when it was called Holiday Magic that turned out to be a work-at-home scam involving assembling products.  I processed their mail.  I was hired via an employment agency so I had no idea this company was illegitimate.  Because they purchased some of the products that were sent to them, they gave the impression that they were an honest company.  After awhile it became clear that they were rejecting a lot more of the sample beaded jewelry and stuffed bears than they should have been.  The con artists' names were Larry Nelson and Helen Caswell.  The woman was the charming front person that handled the client-victims on the phone.  She even fooled me into believing that she was a decent person so I was really stunned to realize they  were running a scam.  I suspect she was a covert narcissist.  They received so many complaints that they were featured on Dateline NBC around 1997.  The show exposed their scam and the big house they pruchased in the Oakland Hills. 

After that they just changed the name of their company to Busy Bee Crafters and other names and kept the business going for years more.  They had no remorse.  When I left the company I was screamed at and bum-rushed by both of them and Helen Caswell sent me a crazy letter writing things like "YOU LIAR!" in capital letters.  She seemd downright psychotic.  Eventually Larry left the Bay Area to Sacramento and she moved to Oregon where no one knew her.  You can find them on Facebook.  I think they may have both passed away but avoid the names of the companies Holiday Magic and Busy Bee Crafters in case they sold the businesses.  Yes, do your research and avoid these kinds of companies, they are run by criminal sociopaths.

ANY PROSPECTIVE JOB OFFERING THAT REQUIRES AN INITIAL INVESTMENT (IN THIS CASE $45) IS A SCAM! ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A JOB SO YOU CAN MAKE MONEY, OR SO YOU CAN MAKE A MONETARY DONATION TO AN UNSCRUPULOUS COMPANY WHO DOES NOT EVEN PROVIDE YOU WITH A PHONE NUMBER OR OTHER MEANS OF CONTACT? BEWARE OF THESE SCAMS - THEY ARE EVERYWHERE AND LOTS OF PEOPLE FALL FOR THEM!