US Study Partnership

I applied for this job on Monster, it is supposed to be helping with exchange students coming into the area, any info you could provide would be great

Lawrence Smith Supervising Manager US Study Partnership
Contact phone: (919)-647-9555
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www.usstudyp.com
http://www.usstudyp.com/docs/ChiefManager.pdf
My name is Lawrence Smith. I am a supervising manager of US Study
Partnership. I'm pleased to inform you that your candidacy for the
Chief Manager position has been accepted by our company's HR
Department.
Here is the email header

Delivered-To:
Received: by 10.112.54.230 with SMTP id m6csp180108lbp;
Tue, 24 Jun 2014 08:07:21 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.182.5.65 with SMTP id q1mr1549529obq.74.1403622441228;
Tue, 24 Jun 2014 08:07:21 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from mail-oa0-f53.google.com (mail-oa0-f53.google.com [209.85.219.53])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id kl1si750861oeb.49.2014.06.24.08.07.20
for <>
(version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128);
Tue, 24 Jun 2014 08:07:20 -0700 (PDT)
Received-SPF: none (google.com: [email protected] does not designate permitted sender hosts) client-ip=209.85.219.53;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
spf=neutral (google.com: [email protected] does not designate permitted sender hosts) [email protected]
Received: by mail-oa0-f53.google.com with SMTP id l6so478441oag.40
for <>; Tue, 24 Jun 2014 08:07:20 -0700 (PDT)
X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
d=1e100.net; s=20130820;
h=x-gm-message-state:from:date:reply-to:organization:message-id:to
:subject:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type
:content-transfer-encoding;
bh=YfTt4CoRKqIWE1cxjIT0ZTCJ7xY9qA1aSI4Pwr0lQ2w=;
b=Hnc5vt/dbkVVWEdrY4YMVOQHNrmvgVkxJ9WEL1X5cYz0dsiblQVOPRuxsezWNmI6OU
8R2kjXclA7wnXBDQGKxrMyrcVJGuox78ccLHGhiiivOd9X6479crjno4H85D8Gscm88A
4VFRTS1m2SYo20guj71zPuI76OYUZEZZuiq2bgMulBuwrjv8RLuE7rof21UAC+Llu7r3
bslbN3jEhW2iT5nnqjoYIJIKczRUtjYxUST7AHj223+KyOENz1p2TR3bF8YGWt0x272e
mtC1eRZ3yjTY+HnvD6RoWiCXq+t6tVpoVXLOSy1fEwD/wqA/k6n5yfJw74riFeW98okU
d5AQ==
X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQm4ImvAOHqRoNpTnSHr5JfSoJD0oFHxptVXdP1+McgLrHG/mrxkHomx1iyG/EG7dPkAtQpl
X-Received: by 10.182.19.196 with SMTP id h4mr1693058obe.20.1403622440456;
Tue, 24 Jun 2014 08:07:20 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Received: from PC (wsip-184-186-52-30.no.no.cox.net. [184.186.52.30])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id db13sm1698582oec.15.2014.06.24.08.07.16
for <>
(version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128);
Tue, 24 Jun 2014 08:07:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lawrence Smith <[email protected]>
X-Google-Original-From: Lawrence Smith <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 10:07:09 -0500
Reply-To: Lawrence Smith <[email protected]>
Organization: US STUDY PARTNERSHIP
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: Roderick Sells <>
Subject: Cheap housing for students
In-Reply-To: <CAKa2Ec-RFjMY5czQQHJ1Rn8fJS7m=LuMmiz_KJiq7svdoYQ13w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20140612212237A022942BE6$29B2055401@APPLE> <CAKa2Ec_yPS1B6_aXjmcwnCOaHvNEoZAWCrdc64nPhZTJ=hs8WQ@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]> <CAKa2Ec-nwrfOfH_c8iPukOmXpowLW+Qo5hUXoNAbVQjk6Ugu2w@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]> <CAKa2Ec-RFjMY5czQQHJ1Rn8fJS7m=LuMmiz_KJiq7svdoYQ13w@mail.gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

A quick look at their website and the first thing I notice is this big statement, front and center:

10+ years of Student Exchange.

Interesting, since the domain is only 6 weeks old! hmmm.. measuring in some other planet's time perhaps?

Domain Name: USSTUDYP.COM
Registrar: PDR LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
Whois Server: whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com
Referral URL: http://www.PublicDomainRegistry.com
Name Server: NS.OPENHOSTING.RU
Name Server: NS2.OPENHOSTING.RU
Status: clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 29-may-2014
Creation Date: 29-may-2014
Expiration Date: 29-may-2015

and it is registered to an individual in Moscow!

Registrant Name: Alex Gusev Sergeevich
Registrant Organization: N/A
Registrant Street: moscow

A quick look through a few areas of the site just continues to confirm it is a scam, from the copied content from legitimate sites, copied and/or just plain bogus testimonials (at least one was stolen from a legitimate study-abroad site, one supposedly from the UK that was clearly written by someone who is not a native English speaker.)

Dotti types faster

The website is in the process of being reported for fraud.

It is supposedly located at 44 Peace Street, Raleigh, North Carolina. Peace Street exists (I've been there), but googling the entire address draws a blank. The site was down last night; I checked it just now and the address does not exist. Mike Wilson checked a different site and also found that the address does not exist.

ETA: the site that was down was a site where I checked whether the address exists, and that was written the next day after I first posted this.

I hope you have not accepted this position. This whole operation is an huge scam. I completed all employment docs, provided direct deposit info, identity information, and then began working for "Lawrence Smith" of US STUDY PARTNERSHIP, 44 PEACE ST, RALEIGH NC who would not pay me. I promptly resigned. My attorney contacted him regarding what was owed me then this guy disappears. His website has been taken down. The whole thing is a hoax. Don't waste your time.

What did you do when you "worked" for this scammer?

Lawrence Smith would email projects to complete such as presentations, research projects, etc.

There is a federal wage claim filed with the labor board.

There is a police report in Raleigh NC.

There is a lawsuit filed against the company.

Since his website was domaines in Miscow we wonder if the student exchange for a child trafficking organization as in tricking parents into paying the money and then get the young people here only to complete the transactions.