Petrochina

Yolanda –

Type of a scam Employment

I was contacted through linked by Cody Hobbs for a possible employment 2 weeks ago. I was hooked up with a second person. I have requested to meet with someone from PetroChina in Calgary. instead this lady wanted me to sign a memorandum of understanding along with a copy of SIN no. and a copy of my drivers license. She went into tonnes of inside information of how much money Petrochina needs to recover and how much I was going to be paid in ($5000.00 in US) US funds. I did not give her any copy of my drivers license or my SIN no, along with signed memo of understanding. (I did not sign anything). here is how the letter read: "*** ***,

The Company has acknowledge your information and its vetted satisfactory. We hereby attached the Memorandum of Understanding to this email. You are to sign it and return it back via email attachment to enable us send your file to the Company Board of Directors along with a scan copy of your national identity card or a copy of your driver’s license. We wish you success at this point.

Confirm the receipt of this email immediately so that your approval can be emailed to you ASAP.

Best regards,

Liu Hongbin

Executive Director

PetroChina Co. Ltd"

[email protected]

**Her first email to me: (*** ***,

Your email has been received and we appreciate your correspondence. PetroChina Company Limited (“PetroChina”) is the largest oil and gas producer and distributor, playing a dominant role in the oil and gas industry in China. It is one of China’s four state oil companies and it currently owns more than 300 subsidiaries inside and outside China. It is not only one of the companies with the biggest sales revenue in China, but also one of the largest oil companies in the world. As a global conglomerate with market orientation, PetroChina Company Limited quality product and service is relevant to many aspects of mass economy and people’s well being. Its brand enjoys high reputation and acknowledgement around the world.

We presently get our payment through checks and draft issued in our favor by our customers, but the problem of delay is usually experienced as we are made to wait for up to one month and more before our local banks here clear the checks/draft. We are loosing a lot of money by doing this as most of our money is procured as short term loan and overdraft from banks with high interest rate. It is as a result of the above we decided to appoint a reliable representative overseas who will now serve as medium of payment and have direct dealing with our clients on our behalf. Any payment made to you on behalf of our company, you shall earn 5% and also we would place you on a monthly salary of $4,000.00 USD for Individual applicant and $5,000.00 USD for company applicant.

We shall immediately commence with the following process of verifying your identity that you will provide in order for us to open a file with our accounting department to facilitate our business relationship. For individual applicant You are requested to furnish us with your full contact information below:

Full Names:

Full Contact/Postal Address:

Age:

Your Company Name:

Business Type:

Position Held:

Current Employer:

Tel and Cell Number:

Email:

Fax Number:

If on the other hand you are applying with your company, there is a registration form attached to this email. Fill it accordingly so we can immediately draft the agreement document. Once the agreement document is signed, we shall open your file and check our payment schedule to see the customer/client or any account of our customer/client that is in your region. After this has been completed, also note clearly that you will not be required to provide any payment to PetroChina Co,. Ltd since your role as the company’s representative is just to communicate with customers and receive funds, deduct 5%, of the total funds and remit the balance 95% to the company.

Please also note that all procedures have to be meant before you can be assigned to a Representative.

Confirm the receipt of this email immediately so that your approval can be emailed to you ASAP.

Best regards,

Liu Hongbin

Executive Director

PetroChina Co. Ltd

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 4:57 PM, *** *** <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi. I would like to meet with a PetroChina representative. I am in Calgary Alberta, Canada. I would like to further discuss. Thank you. *** ***

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——– Original message ——–

From: Liu Hongbin <[email protected]>

Date: 10-13-2015 2:26 AM (GMT-07:00)

To: *** *** <[email protected]>

Subject: Re: Responding to Cody Hobbs.

*** ***,

Thank you for your interest in the job position. Petro China first and foremost would like to thank you for considering our offer to be the company’s representative in your region. The job proposal simply means, we need a representative in your country, who can collect debt owned by our customers who we supplied goods to, but are yet to make payment. Your job as our representative will be to establish contact with these customers in your country, via email and phone introduce yourself as our representative. We will provide you with the documents showing the transaction, date and products supplied. This document ranges from the customer’s data sheet and invoice. The Customer Data sheet will have your information on it, which will be sent to the customer by the company before you make contact. We shall provide you with all information which you will require to prove the existence of debt owned by the customer/client.

As to the second concern, the salary for company applicant is $5,000 USD monthly, with 5% commission for every debt collected, while if you are applying as an individual your salary will be $4,000 USD + 5% commission for every debt collected. If you are appointed as our representative, your first salary will be paid to you 30 days after signing the agreement document. Note that you do not require any special skills, experience or training to be able to do this job competently.

To the Third concern, PetroChina Co,. Ltd, is one of China’s largest conglomerate with branches all over Asia. Over the years our reputation has allowed us to have a personal relationship with LinkedIn professional business network. LinkedIn gives reputable companies like ours access to their professional business data base to get professional contacts privately endorsement by LinkedIn itself, for the following purposes:

1. Job offers.

2. Product innovation

3. Sales and Supplies

4. Equipment testing Etc.

With this relationship we are able to connect with reputable individuals and companies throughout the world. If you are still interested in applying for the position Representative/Account Receivable Agent for PetroChina Co,. Ltd, in your region.

We confirm in good faith that we are ready to work with you and the company wish to also let you know that we have approximately $5,100,000.00 worth of payment with different clients from different regions in US,Canada,Kuwait and Egypt currently owed to Petro China Company Limited. Please confirm the receipt of this email immediately and more details will be made available to you soonest.

Best regards,

Liu Hongbin

Executive Director

PetroChina Co. Ltd)

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