Scammer - Chris Shields
Scammers come in all shapes, nationalities and professions. Christopher Linn Shields (35) is a toad expatriate American who conned his students while working in an English language school in South Jakarta last year. Colleagues described the man-pig face "very charming and super nice." This charm was simply a ruse. One day, Shields made some iPhones and iMacs to school, saying he had a brother who worked in a warehouse Apple in the US and could get the latest products at extremely low prices. Having no reason to distrust their sympathetic teacher, some students placed large orders for iPhones, with the intention of reselling them in Indonesia for a profit. Shields has raised more than Rp.350 million and promised the goods will arrive within two weeks. But he failed to report to work one day and sent a text message to the school, claiming he immediately returned to America because her grandmother was dead. Hours later, Shields posted a photo on his account, saying he was with her boyfriend at Lake Toba in North Sumatra. Not very bright. Police and immigration were alerted, but Shields was able to leave the country in January 2013. It was later reported to be in Hong Kong. It emerged later that he had pulled a similar scam in the Philippines, saying that his mother owned an Apple store and could provide discounted products. Shields declined to respond to a request for his side of the story.
Another scam involving expatriates in Jakarta revolved around a fake agency emigration services. The operator has promised to hold foreign residence and gainful employment for Indonesians who paid bribes to "insiders" corrupt foreign embassies. To strengthen its powers, the agency hired two Westerners, who were dressed in beautiful costumes, asked embassy officials as corrupt and interviewed candidates in five-star hotels.
A devious Westerner, who gave the name of Johan Schofield, used to hang around Jakarta malls to find university graduates rich scam. He presented himself as a recruiter for giant Nokia cell phone and pretend to be looking for new employees to work in their London office. After getting the details of a person, Johan would send messages from an obviously bogus email address (now disabled) - nokiavacancy_department@yahoo.com - promising a job with a huge salary, provided the victim could transfer £ 1,500 to cover the cost of visa and travel. These scammers target degree holders because they are more likely to have enough money to be worth scammed. In one case, five graduates transferred Rp.25 million each for the jobs promised by France and Greece. Lawmakers called the Ministry of Manpower to warn students not to be deceived by fraudulent job offers. Something may be wrong with the education system if people believe Nokia would recruit staff Shopping and use a yahoo email address. Or maybe Johan is just a great con man.
Some Indonesian foreign trawl online scammers labor market forums to find victims. A common scam is to send an e-mail offering a position to 4 star St. Ermin London Hotel which is located near Westminster Abbey. Scammers offer ridiculously high starting salaries of £ 3800 to £ 5800 per month, plus free food and accommodation, to the position of "public relations officers". Potential recruits are invited to transfer about $ 2,000 to cover the cost of processing visas and work permits.
Sometimes even legitimate jobs are not quite what they seem. A sales and marketing company based in Jakarta seeks to recruit graduates "associate marketing." The president said Director spiel "Australia" is "looking for dynamic people to help business growth and be part of a bright intelligent team. "the company intends to provide" a comprehensive training and access to international customers "and" the opportunity to develop new skills and to get to our offices around the world "and" an income opportunity and weekly unlimited career a fun place to work and play "Hou la la this sounds really exciting" All this over. "-.! especially the part to be able working with an Australian! So what that work really involve? being sent into the streets and shopping malls compete for audience members to donate to charities. a little more than being a beggar in a shirt with a logo international NGOs. Maybe not the most exciting job for graduates. Unless they like that kind of thing.