Possible SCAM - LTE Company

I received this email offer via email:

I have the pleasure in inviting you to be part of our high professional team named LTE Company , which is rapidly developing on the market.Based in Reston, Virginia. LTE Company founded in October of 2007 on the fundamental principles оf applying state-of-the-art petroleum and natural gas exploration and extraction technology to the development of onshore oil and natural gas projects. We believe that your skills and experience will invariably contribute to the development and growth of our company.
Let me introduce myself, my name is Emma Wilson and I'm the hiring manager. I'm here to help you out to understand complete information of the current employment. Please do not hesitate to ask your questions about employment process, and I will be happy to answer them for you in detail.
The position currently open at the company offers remarkable growth prospects in fields such as сonsulting and management.By agreeing to this position you will have to carry out the following duties described below and to provide you with all the necessary information, you will be involved to the required training, during which you will learn how to perform specific tasks.
You will have to carry out the following duties (of course, you will have a preliminary training period that ensures you have learned to perform a particular task):
- Making important graphs and reports regarding information received from our clients and partners
who are working inside the country and abroad.
- Development and transfers of working plans
- Researching of the most profitable routes for travel for our engineers who are working on developing in exploration technologies
- Analysis and research for changes on the current situation in market
- Providing all necessary reports to the supervisor in time
- Performing other required tasks if they appear.
In such manner, we try to use all our operating resources to achieve a positive effect in our companies work.To help you better understand work of our team let me give you an example. If our engineers are working every week outside the office, they need to provide reports to us about their work. Therefore, they need to send the required documents to the main office. In some cases, It is not possible for the engineer to prepare the required reports due to the conditions where explorations are held and they don't have access to the computer. And work with the computer is the only way to transfer the information collected during research to the coordination manager for the required processing. And this method of saving time has a positive effect on the quality of work
from our company and the team, as all employees perform their tasks quickly and efficiently helping each other, and do not spend time on the job, which requires much more time than it takes.
The salary that will be paid to you for the first three weeks of training will be $xxxx and will be paid to you by direct deposit after you finish your training period. But if you perform
you're working tasks successfully and in time with no remarks from your manager, your salary can be paid to you after two working weeks. After completion of your trial period we will offer you the actual position of a Manager in our company with the salary amount of $xxxx per month.
I want to highlight you the fact that you do not need to spend your personal out-of-pocket money working with us. Also, all your expenses from the bills will be covered by our company with your salary.
If you want to proceed further, please find working agreement attached to this letter. This contract has to be signed by your hand. If you can't open following file, please check if you
have installed the necessary software on your computer that will let you open PDF files. You can download Abode Reader pack from official website by the link below: http://www.adobe.com
To proceed with your signed agreement to our database, you need to follow required rules:
1. Your agreement has to be signed only by hand. Digital signatures are not accepted by our company as legal proof of consent.
2. Your signed agreement must be sent back as scanned copy or faxed copy.
After successful competition of all steps, I will contact you by phone to inform you about further steps in your employment with our company.

Here is the agreement:

This employment agreement (the “AGREEMENT”) is made effective as of by and between the
“COMPANY” and the “EMPLOYEE” (collectively referred to as the “PARTIES”).
The “COMPANY”:
Company name: Leading Technologies for Exploration Company (LTE Company)
Form of enterprise: LLC (Limited Liability Company)
Company address: 11951 Freedom Drive, Reston, Virginia, 20190
Chief Executive Officer: Richard Hamilton
The “EMPLOYEE”:
First name:
Last name:
Middle initial:
DOB:
Current address:
Permanent address:
City:
State:
ZIP:
Home phone (landline):
Cell phone:
E-mail:
1. Preamble.
This agreement is between the LTE LLC hereinafter called “Company” and
_____________________________________________ hereinafter called “Employee”.
2. General conditions.
2.1. The Parties may negotiate and alter the provisions of the Agreement on occasion in
written form. Subject to prior consent of the Company subsequent estimates of the Manager
Service may be added in supplement to the present Agreement. The Agreement cannot be
amended or modified unless any changes are introduced in written form and signatures of
appropriately accredited representatives of the Parties are given. The present Agreement
includes all the supplements, amendments and appendices constituting an inseparable part
hereof.
2.2. Section headings do not serve as integral parts of the present Agreement as they do not
expressly and precisely present the content of the Agreement.
2.3. There exist no agreements, obligations and liabilities between both Parties in the exception of
those accurately and unambiguously stated in the Agreement. The present Agreement
covers the entire understanding between the Parties, explicitly sets out the matters included in
it and substitutes previous promises and negotiations. The present Agreement shall in any
case prevail over any conflicts that may occur between the Parties.
3. Subject of agreement.
3.1. In accordance with the Agreement the Manager is employed by the Company. The
Manager undertakes obligation to fulfill the duties stated in the Agreement and be paid
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(mm/dd/yyyy)
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for his/her services, and commits him/herself to act for the benefit of the Company over the
period the Agreement is in force.
3.2. The services provided by the Manager in accordance with the Agreement are considered
his/her professional activity consisting of a set of statements stated herein.
4. Costs and fees.
4.1. Any dues or expenses paid by the Manager (or supposed to be paid in the course of working
for the Company) in accordance with the obligations set by the Agreement, are to be
compensated by the Company according to actual expensesrate.
4.2. The Company undertakes the obligation to compensate any approved and substantiates outof-pocket
expenses that the Manager encounters while accomplishing the duties set by the
Agreement.
5. Company responsibilities.
5.1. The main responsibility of the Company is providing exploration services, including
introducing, selling and supporting.
5.2. Any account charges are compensated by the Company on condition that the charges are
related to bank transfers executed by theManager.
5.3. According to the present Agreement, the services of the Manager are reimbursed by the
Company in the amount of $xxxx USD for the three (3) initial weeks of the trial
engagement period (“the Trial Period”). On successful accomplishment of the Trial Period
monthly salary amounts to $xxxx USD.
5.4. The Manager is to be provided with full salary compensation set by the present Agreement
until the date of the Agreementtermination.
5.5. The Manager is provided with an insurance package in accordance with the field of
employment; the package is valid after full three (3) months of continuous employment in the
Company.
6. Duties of the employee.
6.1. Performing daily operations: working with documentation, processingpaperwork.
6.2. Monitoring company’s online messaging system for new messages and/or assignments.
6.3. Monitoring employee and company operating account activity and withdrawing funds
transferred by Company’s client for further assets distribution to some of the workers of the
Company.
6.4. Controlling actual status of the exploration of mineral resources.
6.5. Sorting, checking and recording information (Excel tables with data).
6.6. Performing research tasks in Manager’s local area and submitting results to the data base.
(Researching office lease opportunities for further office establishment).
6.7. Funds that the clients of the Company transfer to the Bank Account are to be withdrawn by
the Manager with the exclusion of all bank commissions and charges. After withdrawal the
bankroll is to be transferred to workers via international money transfer system within one (1)
business day. As it is set by the present Agreement, all money transfer commissions will be
covered from the amount transferred.
6.8. The Manager shall keep accurate and full records of accomplished transfers, supporting
documents, invoices, including vendor invoices, any received payments paperwork, and their
copies over the period while the present Agreement is in force.
6.9. Acquiring equipment and accessories for the home office of Company’s employees using the
funds allocated by the Company.
6.10. Protecting operations of the Company by keeping financial information and Company’s
plans confidential.
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(mm/dd/yyyy)
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7. Limitation of liability.
7.1. The Manager is not under articles with clients of the Company and is not liable for any
disputes that may occur between the clients. Exploration agreements and contracts have legal
force only between the Company and itsclients.
7.2. The Manager distinctly agrees that the Company shall be entitled to judiciary and other
equitable restraint in the occurrence or for the prevention of any breach of Agreement
provisions by the Manager. Implementation of such a restraint should not be interpreted
as a refusal of any other remedies or rights that the Company may have for damages or
otherwise. Various remedies and rights set by the present Agreement for the Company
should be interpreted as cumulative, meaning that any of them of them should not exclude
any other right or remedy warrantable by law.
7.3. The Company guarantees indemnification to the Manager from any lawsuits, claims, and
damages resulting from unlawful or negligent actions of theCompany.
8. Privacy statement.
8.1. All information that is passed from one Party to another and is regulated by the Agreement is
considered confidential and shall not be subject to disclosure to the third parties unless there
is an agreement between the Parties present in written form, except for cases preconditioned
by the terms of the contract.
8.2. By signing the present Agreement the Manager acknowledges that all copyrightable material,
any discoveries, inventions and innovations elaborated by the Manager over the period of
employment become exclusive property of theCompany.
8.3. Any discoveries, inventions, developments and innovations elaborated by the Manager before
executing the present Agreement and remain in his ownership and may be used in rendering
the duties set by the Company; they are licensed for use by the Company.
8.4. The number of employees admitted to the information of the Company is limited by the
Manager to the number of employees needed for execution of theAgreement.
8.5. The Manager takes on the obligation not to disclose any information on account details,
bankroll operations, and essential elements of the Company to the third parties, unless the
disclosure of confidential information is authorized by the Company directly, or is
necessary for the execution of the present Agreement.
8.6. The Manager is aware of the fact that the system of the accounts the Manager uses in the
course of work constitutes an internal system. It is prohibited to disclose any record that has
been given confidential status or has a status of a pending application of confidentiality.
8.7. The Parties specify existing proprietary or confidential items to be delivered against the
present Agreement in the following way. Both Parties agree that over the period when the
present Agreement is in force, the Manager may elaborate certain information that he/she
wants to be subject to protection as confidential information. The Manager confirms that as
an employee of the Company he/she will be granted access to certain trade secrets,
processes, inventions, records, specifications and innovations that are the property of the
Company and/or implemented by the Company in its business process, including, but not
limited to, business methods, customer accounts, product procedures.
8.8. The exclusive property of the Company comprises all documentation, files, blueprints,
records, specifications, letters, media lists, notes, original artwork, and similar items related
to the business activity of the Company. If any of the mentioned above items come into
possession of the Manager or are prepared by the Manager should remain part of the
exclusive property of theCompany.
8.9. Any electronic or hard copies of the mentioned above items should not be retained by the
Manager unless there is a prior permission granted by the Company in written form. If the
Agreement is expired or terminated, all files, documents, records, specifications,
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(mm/dd/yyyy)
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and other items in the possession or under control of the Manager should be immediately
passed to the Company.
8.10. The Manager takes the obligation not discloses to the third parties the information that
he becomes aware of in relation to the presen tAgreement.
8.11. The Manager takes the obligation not to disclose to the third parties any part of the text
of the Agreement, including all amendments, supplements and appendices.
8.12. The Manager confirms not to enter into any contract without being assured by the
Company.
9. Additional services.
At the request of the Company the Manager shall provide necessary assistance in promotion
of the Company services in his/her professional field. Provision of any additional services is not
regulated by the present Agreement and should be specified separately.
10. Duration and termination of the contract.
10.1. The present Agreement comes into force immediately after being signed by the Parties.
10.2. The termination of the present Agreement can take place at the mutual agreement of the
Company and the Manager or on the basis preconditioned bylaw.
The Manager can’t initiate the termination of the present Agreement if:
10.3. There are partners, or client money remaining on the Bank Account of the
Manager;
10.4. There remain any disputes or unsolved issues between the Parties.
10.5. The funds (bankroll) have just been transferred to the Bank Account.
10.6. If the Company merges or consolidates with any other entity, this cannot serve as a
basis for termination of the presentAgreement.
10.7. The Company can initiate the termination of the present Agreement. Should this
happen the Company shall serve notice on this fact to the Manager in written form not later
than 12 business days before declared date of cancellation.
10.8. The Company reserves the right to terminate the Agreement immediately upon nonperformance
of obligations of the Manager and to proceed with the working process
preconditioned by the present Agreement in the manner the Company considers appropriate.
10.9. The Company is entitled to immediately terminate the employment of the Manager at
any moment without serving written notice in case of the Manager’s failure or refusal to
adhere to the written directives and policies of the Company, if the Manager is determined
guilty of any offense or crime, is convicted of serious breach of discipline during the
performance of duties, or of material breach of the present Agreement provisions. The
Manager confirms that according to the terms set herein, the Agreement may be unilaterally
terminated by theCompany.
11. Allowances, benefits and professionaltaxation.
11.1. The Manager acts as the independent Party and is independently responsible for the delivery
of services against the terms of the present Agreement. Consequently the Manager
acknowledges that the Company shall render the latter an employee with the Company.
11.2. The Company takes on responsibility for withholding taxes from the salary of the Manager;
the latter is not obliged to for observe of fiscallaws.
11.3. The Company takes on responsibility for providing vacation pay, retirement benefits, sick
leave compensation, health or disability benefits, social security, workers compensation,
unemployment insurance benefits, as well as appropriate employee benefits of any kind for
the benefit of the Manager after ninety days of continuous employment of the Manager.
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(mm/dd/yyyy)
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11.4. All essential documentation related to business operations shall be forwarded to the
Manager by the Company against the present Agreement for tax reporting of the Manager.
11.5. The Manager and the Company acknowledge that all messages they exchange with each other
with the help of facsimile communication shall be considered legal.
12. Resolution ofDisputes.
12.1. The present Agreement is recognized as legally valid in theUSA.
12.2. All disputes, issues and contraventions that can occur between the Parties with regard
to the execution and cancellation of the present Agreement shall undergo negotiation to be
admitted.
12.3. In the event that consent between the Parties has not been achieved in the course of
negotiations, the arisen dispute shall be processed in accordance with the procedure
preconditioned by the laws in force in the USA, and the dispute can be resolved in any
authorized court.

It's a Money Mule Scam . Stop all contact with the Scammers.

I received the same email. I am waiting for a call from the supervisor tomorrow!

Received same email. Wrote hiring agent with following questions:

- What is the full, legally registered company name of the entity from which the employment agreement is written?

- Is the company that I would be employed with the same as that which is presenting the employment agreement?

- What is the direct web site(s) / URL for the company(ies) ?

- What is the name of the individual who's signature is shown next to 'CEO of LTE LLC' (I have attached a snapshot of the signature portion of the employment agreement. I see Richard Hamilton listed on the right side of the seal, however I am not able to distinguish if the printed name matches the signature)

Received the following response. Not quite answering my questions. The website is real, but not of the caliber I would expect for a company doing said business in the industry. I'm convinced this is a scam. I believe the verbiage regarding 'direct deposit' is telling of a money scam.

Response to my questions:

Dear _____,
Our Company located in Reston, Virginia. Please note, at the moment we provide only a home based position. So, you don’t have to travel anywhere because you can work with us from your own computer! Our enterprise is entitled as – LTE COMPANY (Leading Technologies for Exploration) Here is our website link: http://leadingtech4exp.com On our website you will find all information what you are looking for.
We hope that on our website you will find a lot of answers to your questions about our company.

Domain Name: LEADINGTECH4EXP.COM
Registrar: INTERNET DOMAIN SERVICE BS CORP
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 2487
Whois Server: whois.internet.bs
Referral URL: http://www.internet.bs
Name Server: NS21.CLOUDNS.NET
Name Server: NS22.CLOUDNS.NET
Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 18-may-2017
Creation Date: 18-may-2017
Expiration Date: 18-may-2018

Stop all contact with the Scammers.

I also received this letter with an attached contract. ( I had not responded to anything ) This appears to be a money-laundering scheme or a gate to some other garden path.

Hello xxxxxxxxxx!
Thank you for your response. You have made the right decision by accepting the offer to work as an Assistant Manager in our company! Based in Reston, Virginia LTE Company founded on the fundamental principles of applying state-of-the-art petroleum and natural gas exploration and extraction technology to the development of onshore oil and natural gas projects. We believe that your skills and experience will invariably contribute to the development and growth of our company.
Let me introduce myself, my name is Emma Wilson and I'm the hiring manager. I will help you with all the necessary formalities for the employment. Please do not hesitate to ask your questions about employment process, and I will be happy to answer them for you in detail. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to respond quickly every time, as I constantly have a lot of paperwork and have to accomplish other tasks as well.
The position currently open at the company offers remarkable growth prospects in fields such as consulting and management. By agreeing to this position you will have to carry out the following duties described below and to provide you with all the necessary information, you will be involved to the required training, during which you will learn how to perform specific tasks.
You will have to carry out the following duties (of course, you will have a preliminary training period that ensures you have learned to perform a particular task):
- Making important graphs and reports regarding information received from our clients and partners who are working inside the country and abroad
- Development and transfers of working plans
- Researching of the most profitable routes for travel for our engineers who are working on developing in exploration technologies
- Logistic managing
- Analysis and research for changes on the current situation in market
- Providing all necessary reports to the supervisor in time
- Performing other required tasks if they appear
In such manner, we try to use all our operating resources to achieve a positive effect in our companies work.To help you better understand work of our team let me give you an example. If our engineers are working every week outside the office, they need to provide reports to us about their work. Therefore, they need to send the required documents to the main office. In some cases, It is not possible for the engineer to prepare the required reports due to the conditions where explorations are held and they don't have access to the computer. And work with the computer is the only way to transfer the information collected during research to the coordination manager for the required processing. And this method of saving time has a positive effect on the quality of work from our company and the team, as all employees perform their tasks quickly and efficiently helping each other, and do not spend time on the job, which requires much more time than it takes.
The salary that will be paid to you for the first three weeks of training will be $3,300 and will be paid to you by direct deposit after you finish your training period. After successful completion of your trial employment period - $5,000 per month.
I want to point out that that the position does not require you to make payments or pay the fees. Also, all your expenses from the bills will be covered by our company.
Please find the contract attached to this letter. The contract is to be signed by you. It is submitted in PDF format. (If you do not have a program to open this type of files, you can download
AcrobatReader installation package on the official website of Adobe http://www.adobe.com).
For the execution of the contract you need to:
1. Your agreement has to be signed only by hand. Digital signatures are not accepted by our company as legal proof of consent.
2. Your signed agreement must be sent back as scanned copy or faxed copy.
After successful competition of all steps, I'll inform you about further steps in your employment with our company.



Yours sincerely,
Emma Wilson.
HR Department
LTE Company

I just joined the website so I can post my comment. I also receive an email regarding an assistant manager job with LTE company. I wrote asking where is the job located and Emma Wilson wrote back to me saying I will be working from home. I thought that is odd considering it stated in the original email I have to be punctual and it is high volume work. I worked from home this year but I was still able to go to the supermarket and pick up some goods and still get my work done as per quota.

I wrote back Emma telling her I went to the website link she gave me. I see there is a section there where one can leave a message and upload a resume. I told Emma I'm sorry but there are scams out there and I just want to be sure. So if she does not mind I will contact her through the company website if she agrees. If not then I would conclude it's a scam. Also I told her that the email she uses to write me is not that of the company in the link she sent me. Genuine companies that I have dealt with will correspond with the name of the company.com but hers looks like an email that one can sign up for from a website. I figure I contribute being that some people were nice enough to post their experience. These people should have better things to do than to waste people's time.

Finally, the first email had an address from a Samsung company division located in HRC | 776 Henrietta Creek Rd., Roanoke, TX 76262. From: Melana Cooner [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Melana Cooner
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2017 2:09 PM

Today 2nd email is: From: Emma Wilson [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2017 12:43 PM

I actually had a women call me, said she was my training manager. It was a VA. She sounded Asian. I was driving so she said I could call her back.

I am still trying to figure this out!

It's a scam job . Please post the telephone number and email addresses these criminals are using . Stop all contacts with them

leadingtech4exp.com is in the process of being reported for fraud.

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Email addresses:

<[email protected]>
[email protected]> (Emma Wilson)

No phone number was provided.

This is the intro email from Linda:

After browsing through a great number of managerial resumes, I determined that you should consider the position of an Assistant Manager open at our company.

I have considered your CV closely, and now I would like to inform you that your personal qualities and skills are exactly what the company is looking for at the moment. Let me briefly describe the company’s profile and the position you are encouraged to apply for.

Position Information

With a substantial expansion campaign taking course, we have initiated a smart recruitment drive with the aim of employing an adequate number of new managerial members.

The position currently open at the company offers outstanding growth prospects in fields such as сonsulting and management.

Your employment will commence with a basic training covered in full by the company, which will gradually evolve into an interesting and challenging job that involves tackling both in-office and off-site assignments.

Contact

In order to help me reach you, I would like to request to confirm your mobile number for possible text notifications or calls. Please note that I will never make unarranged calls without notifying you beforehand.

Mobile no. I have on file: xxxxxxx

Once I receive your reply, I will send you an application form, which you are required to fill out in order to schedule an initial telephone interview and receive more information.

I'm looking forward to your positive feedback and will be happy to collaborate with you and finally set dates for your initial phone interview.

Sincerely,
Linda,
HR Department

leadingtech4exp.com is in the process of being reported for fraud.

http://ltecmail.com/ has insufficient content. If you have received an email from ltecmail.com, please post it with complete headers so that we can kill it.

The phone number I received a call from was 703-596-0553

I will post later with a link they provided me to log hours!

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Post the email header. Prior to submitting remove your email address and name.

Mod note: This post appears to be a fake testimonial. Scammers will use these kinds of fake posts, pretending that they or friends, are satisfied customers, in order to convince potential victims their scam is real. Occasionally a post like this will be made by a confused victim or someone who mixes up company names as well. This is indeed a scam. – Bryon

My name is Fred Hike.

I’m not aware about the described position, but I work remotely in LTE for 2 years. So far, I'm satisfied with my position. There are some difficulties, but they are insignificant. The work is interesting, the team is pleasant - managers always try to help, salary is paid on time, and those is the most important for me.
Your assumptions about the fact that this is a scam is wrong, because the company is officially registered, and license can be checked. You can not blame the company if you don’t have enough evidence for the fact that they are scam.