Comments on: Shippers Beware: How to Avoid Fake Freight Forwarder Scams https://www.universalcargo.com/shippers-beware-how-to-avoid-fake-freight-forwarder-scams/ Freight Forwarding Company Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:04:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.9 By: Edward https://www.universalcargo.com/shippers-beware-how-to-avoid-fake-freight-forwarder-scams/#comment-179174 Wed, 04 Sep 2019 20:19:01 +0000 https://www.universalcargo.com/?p=9476#comment-179174 so what is the scam? they are communicating with me now and I am not sure what all this is about. I am like you I am curious. What do they benefit? questionnaires and all as a job interview should go?

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By: Charity Beth Sadler https://www.universalcargo.com/shippers-beware-how-to-avoid-fake-freight-forwarder-scams/#comment-179096 Wed, 22 May 2019 12:24:31 +0000 https://www.universalcargo.com/?p=9476#comment-179096 In reply to Anthony.

So glad you shared this. I was going through this with them this week.

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By: Anthony https://www.universalcargo.com/shippers-beware-how-to-avoid-fake-freight-forwarder-scams/#comment-179085 Thu, 09 May 2019 18:42:57 +0000 https://www.universalcargo.com/?p=9476#comment-179085 Found this article after being offered a job at a company called World Freight Forwarding (http://worldfreightinc.com/).

while putting my resume on all the major job sites (Indeed, Monster, Glassdoor, Job Seekers, LinkedIn, etc.) I randomly get an email from this company. In the email they say “thanks for your interest in the Project Manager position”. Except I never applied to them. I emailed back and forth just to see what it may be about, and they asked me to start doing paid training……before I ever actually spoke with someone.

I agreed to the training, which entailed them sending PDF docs on their company, as they did not ask for any personal info (bank info, etc.) that they couldn’t have got from my resume. 3 days into being send these random freight industry terms, I looked a bit further into their “company”.

– The domain was just registered 3 weeks ago, out of the Ukraine, not Switzerland which they claimed is the corporate HQ.

– all the addresses are of shared spaces, including the “HQ”. You’d think if you need to inspect cargo for heavy machinery, you wouldn’t do it from a small shared space office.

– the “HR Manager” couldn’t answer basic questions like: how long has the company been in business? (he answered “more than a few years”)

– they have zero web presence. No employees on LinkedIn, no job postings on any job sites, nothing pops up on google. zero.

When I asked the “HR Manager” about this via email, his reply was “We’re a European company, so we’re still making a name for ourselves in the states”. Sure buddy….

Sharing this just in case….

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