Laowai Career Center lured me through ad online Google Adwords to their website which is their bait to get a high-[paying job in China either directly or through an internship. I took the bait, believed all their lies and fake reviews and spent $2,000 to fly to China thinking they would give me my own apartment which was included in the deal. They never told me I would have two roommates including one who snores like a bear and another that is bi-polar and always arguing with his parents on the phone at 2am in the morning because of time zone differences.
The job I signed up for was "no longer available" by the time I arrived in China and they then pressured me to teach English. I demanded a refund of all my fees and travel expenses. They ignored me and told me to teach or go home. I ended up teaching just to recover my loss. Today, my sister sent me this link http://www.opnlttr.com/letter/…
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The "free apartment" they offered her was a room that measured 2 by 3 meters and she had to share it witha a chain smoking man from Algeria. She asked for her own room and was told that would cost her $300 a week! For fear of being raped or robbed she took it.
The only good thing about this nightmare is my sister met someone who stopped to talk with her as she was sobbing in a hotel lobby, and got her a real job with a car rental company. She is okay now, but that 90 day internship from hell caused her to spend almost $8,000 after she ha dto pay here own airfare, ground transportation, and for her meals. Not to mention her own safe room. Today, almost a year later I found this detailed report about the company and wished we had seen it last year. https://chinascampatrol.wordpress.com/2015/04/25/is-gi2c-china-internship-program-a-legal-scam-or-legit/
My sis recently found out that someone opened a bloody bank account in her name and got credits cards that were used to buy $6,784 of jewlery in China and the the copperss showed her a list of about 200 compamies and asked her if she did business with any of them. Gi2c sister companies were on the list – getin2china and Wiseway Global. Her flatmate found and sent her this link last night. http://www.opnlttr.com/letter/fraud-warning-advice-how-foreign-expats-can-avoid-identity-theft-scams-when-applying-teaching
I think it is time to ring the alarm bell for people traveling to China for any purpose, but especially for job applicants. Most of the cheaters seem to be foreigners and not the Chinese, at least when it comes to the job recruiters and agencies. The coppers told my sister that in the future she should check these websites before doing anything in China http://reddit.com/r/chinascamcentral and https://www.scam.com/showthread.php?704467-UPDATED-China-Liars-List-ESL-TEFL-Teacher-Job-Scams-Internships-Exporters-etc-BLACKLIST. I think this is bloody great advice. Too late for her but maybe not for others.
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This company recently solicited me to offer me a "fortune 500 job" in China. They claimed I would first have to pay them $285 to get a normal job in China and then do a 90 day internship to "prove you are reliable and competent" (made sense to me) but after I started checking out their claims (They say they are "partners" with 100 top universities, the MInistry of Education, and 80 Fortune 500 companies in China) I realized they are a fraud. Not one university I called (from the names the sales agent mentioned) nor even one of 20 Fortune 500 companies I called in Beijing have any knowledge of this group, and Rutgers says their legal department told them two years ago to stop using their name in Gi2c sales materials. Then when I googled these clowns if found all sorts of complaints and negative comments like these here:
http://www.worldlawdirect.com/…
http://www.scam.com/showthread…!
http://chinascampatrol.wordpre…
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These Gi2C fraudsters sell an illegal internship package that people can get for free directly from Fortune 500 Companies. See http://freechinainternships.bl…
This Gi2c company lies about everything and will promise you anything to get your "refundable $300 deposit" that really is never refunded. They also lie about being partners with Stanford, Princeton, Purdue and 50 other top universities that say they never heard of Gi2C!
I have since found these other warnings online that i regretfully did not see before. I was fooled by all of their fake reviews and testimonials.
http://www.thestudentroom.co.u…
http://chinascampatrol.wordpre…
http://www.scam.com/showthread…
http://eslwatch.info/forum/chi…
http://www.scamorg.com/gi2c-or…
I have never seen a more believable scam in my life. Their web site is very deceptive and they keep you so busy looking at THEIR propaganda that you have no time left to google their reputation.
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Little Beijing company with 15 employees claims to be huge "Corporate Registrar" subcontracted by HR departments of most all MNC and Fortune 500 companies in China to recruit interns for new entry level management positions. But you must agree to buy an internship package from them "to prove yourself".
They say that if you do well on your 90 day internship, you will get hired to a $60,000 job. Once you take this bait they charge you $300 up-front to process your paperwork. They then schedule a fake interview with you, supposedly from the HR Director from the big MNC company, but it is really one of their own people.
Afterward you are told that "you sound perfect for the job" you are asked to pay a placement fee of $3,700 but if you don't have it they will go as low as $999. If you hesitate they tell you that you will go on the waiting list for next year!
They justify their fee by saying they charge 10% less than a head-hunter.
Their web site looks so professional and full of testimonials, but here is how they get them…
https://gi2cscamorama.wordpres…
http://eslwatch.info/forum/chi…
http://scam-detector.com/forum…
When they talk with you on Skype sometimes they say they are calling from the London or New York office when they have no offices located there. This link here shows what some of their former clients and own employees said:
http://eslwatch.info/forum/chi…
This company also tells you to lie on your visa application which is a felony crime. Google "Winnie Maliko China internship" to read her story as another victim too.
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This company solicits by email and Skype to university students offering good-paying jobs in China with huge and famous companies BUT ONLY IF you buy an internship package that sells for $3,700 that they do not tell you about until after you send them a $300 deposit. Before you send the $300 you are led to believe the who cost is $300! Then you cannot get your deposit back. See the many complaints at http://eslwatch.info/forum/chi…
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This company based in Beijing, China operates a boiler room call center that also phishes for victims with online ads spammed all over the world to get young people to pay $3,700 to come work in China. But they do not tell you the whole cost until after you pay them a $300 deposit that is supposed to be "100% Refundable". It would be easier to pull a tooth from a starving tiger than to get a refund from these jerks. See here http://scam-detector.com/forum….