GE Consultancy Jacob Steen Well developed scam resulting in your credit card theft. their web & mail servers are located in Ukraine Internet

Very well thought out and professional scam apparently based in the Ukraine from their DNS and MX (mail) records.  

Claimed to be opening a new office in my local city for  project managers. They have a 6 page pre-employment paperwork you sign that specifies the conditions in order to "work" for them and the promise of $1500 pay for completing their 1 month evaluation and completion of projects.

They assign you project management case studiy tests that are the worded exactly the same as online training courses freely available on the internet. After about 7 of these theory based tests, you move on to 'real' case studies from their special projects office. The first project is one of their european clients wants 4 models of Apple computers and you're asked to select a credit card number and make the purchase for them.

Once confronted and asked for comments, they have since disappeared with no further email responses. Call the listed phone number below and enjoy the conversation with someone who speaks english as a 3rd or 4th language. The number is apparently a VOIP based mobile number and not a fixed landline.

Their web site is reasonably good to support their scam and Jacob Steen's LinkedIn page shows him as the company's only employee.  Really enjoyed their key executives page on the company web site as its not words associated with what you typically see for high level staff.

Although I wasn't taken with the scam, it was very interesting to see the process in action and see where I would be led. It was an interesting journey. 

The first and last emails below are lengthy but are important to show you the quality of this particular scam.

The first email from them:

The last email I received from them follows:

How are you today?
Just  wanted  to update you on results of your research. First of all,
your  research was  very  informative.  Second,  your  report has been
approved  and  we've selected primary vendor and alternative option. A
list  of  vendors  will  be  shared  with  you once we start Step #3 -
EXECUTION.
Since exact  vendors  have  been selected and located, we are starting
the  next  step,  Step  #2  -  FINANCING.  We spoke to our bankers and
financial  institutions  and  discussed a way of transferring required
funds  to you so you can  execute the project. Based on the results of
discussion we made a decision that any sort of check transfers or cash
transfers  will not work for our company due to low level of security.
Taking into consideration fast development of on-line banking systems,
we decided to select this option as one of the possible ones.
Our  bankers  advised  our  company to authorize you to use one of the
corporate  bank  accounts established through US Bank. This means that
you  will  be  provided  with  24-hour access to corporate account and
required  banking  information,  such as account and routing number of
the  account.  This  account can  be used only through on-line banking
system, so you can not pay with this account or withdraw any cash from
this  account.  Since  we are working remotely  at the moment, we must
protect  corporate  account from theft. That is why there are specific
requirements on how to get funds and how to pay for the equipment.
You  will be authorized to use funds, and you will be able to complete
wire  transfers from this account (not cash). This means that you will
be able to withdraw funds from the account through on-line banking. To
get  these  funds, you will have to place them to any of your existing
credit  cards.
On  your  end  there  is  no  need  to  give  out any of your personal
information  or  share  any  sort  of credit card details. You will be
provided  with  required  instructions  and you will  be using on-line
banking on your computer,  which  will  avoid  any sort of risk.
This is how the process works:
-  you  have to select any available credit card (with zero balance or
outstanding balance, or maxed out credit card);
- then you must request banking details to start transferring process;
- as soon as you get banking details  you may proceed with transfer of
corporate  funds  from  corporate  bank  account  to your card through
on-line banking;
- once you get the funds we will  start Step #3 - EXECUTION and I will
guide you through the process.

If  everything  is  clear  for  you,  I  am  ready  to request further
instructions.   Please,  confirm that you have a card to which you can
receive corporate funds and we will move forward.

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Best regards,
Mr. Jacob Steen
Senior Regional/Training Manager
GE Consultancy
Philadelphia, PA
+ 1 (267) 433-4151