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If you’ve never heard of Transworld International Youth Organization welcome to the club. I sure never heard of them. Until now, that is. What you see here is a grab of the “contact us” page of this organization which I assume now can confirm must be is some kind of scam. Why else would a real organization use a picture of MY office on their “contact us” page (http://w-aetc.com/whats_new_1.html now a dead link), implying it’s their “head office”? The address listed for Transworld International Youth Organization (TIYO?) is Brunham Road, FT. Smith, Arkansas, United States of America.
There is very little you can find about this organization but if you search for the name of their secretary, supposedly a person going by the name of Professor William Kim Higgins, you will find this particular e-mail (from 2003) where the person posting the e-mail asks whether this is a scam or not.
What strikes me as really funny, and is perhaps related to someone not paying attention. The www.stefandidak.com URL is part of the office photo because it links directly to one of the images on my site. If you’ve come to my site with questions about Transworld International Youth Organization or Prof. William Kim Higgins because you saw my URL in what they claim is their “head office” picture then I’m afraid I can’t help you. I have no idea who that is or what that organization is trying to do but I can tell you, it isn’t anything good and you are likely to lose information or money to this organization and the scam they are running. Needless to say, I have absolutely nothing to do with these crooks.
Looking at the rest of the website (http://w-aetc.com/whats_new_1.html which is now gone) it just looks like a total scam revolving around global relief re-construction and some kind of vague conference. Note that the main site also has an alternate main page (http://w-aetc.com/index_1.html which is gone now) that’s linked from elsewhere in the site. I don’t know what kind of fraud ring this organization or the (probably fake) Prof. William Kim Higgins is running but it sure looks like it’s nothing good and the website does not inspire me with confidence. In fact, the text and content on the site just seems to scream “this is a total scam” as far as I can tell.
If you know more about this, please let me know of leave a comment here.
Addition: Some additional information can also be found here. This link features a warning about a scam called International Youth Org. Saying that an e-mail from one Secretary General, Madam Cynthia Brady is floating around. This particular Transworld Youth Organization uses the address of No 157 West 47th Street, New York, NY 10036.
Another addition: A website called Fraud Watchers also has some info on this scam. It appears the scam attempts to get your name, date of birth, place of birth, passport numbers, country code number, etc. information from you. For what is likely to be nefarious purposes.
Update April 4th, 2009: The scammers have killed their site. After exposing them in my post and updating an image on their site it only took them a week to discover the game was over. They had not just taken one of my office images, they linked directly to it. I modified that image so everyone visiting the website of these scammers showed THIS image. I expected they’d notice that sooner or later and take the image off. Instead, they just deleted their entire site (which was hosted by FreeServers).
You can view more like this in the Office Thieves Hall Of Shame.
Wow. Yet another instance of an idiot doing a search for pictures, and not bothering to check out the site they’ve pulled it from. Because if they had taken even 5 minutes to peruse this site, they’d see the recent posts about Mr. Alves, and they might have thought twice about using your pictures.
The world is full of stupid people, as the song goes.
Hi everybody.
I had also been contacted by this particular Lousie William who tried throughout amoureux.com to swindle me about 800Euros by asking me to make a reservation to espirito santo hotel in dakar in regard of that conferences.
Unfortunately for them it was not possible for me to do so. That’s why a wrote a mail to Mrs Cynthia Brady asking this:
Dear Mrs Cynthya, in the scale of charismatics values, what is important; an affidavit statement on oaths or a hotel reservation? Till now my mail is without any answer.It a year ago.
i went to the link to the contact us page and got a 404 error, so i guess the host has heard it was a scam. Stupid people always amaze me.
err i just realized how old this blog post was…i hope that by now the host has atleast taken the site down.
Look, i received an invitation to an conference taking place these year sponsored and organized by the same organization, unfortunately i’m with a busy schedule, so i’m losing the opportunity of losing money and time in this… So
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hey guys i got an invitationletter to the conference.first conference will take place in arkansas and second will take place in UK.but the organizers are asking participants to book hotel in uk.Guys if this real or not? if yes ornot plz send message to my email dony_1@mail.ru
Yes – this is indeed a scam. I just been dealing with them. The terrible grammar and innumerable spelling errors in all their communication is the first warning, then followed by fake hotels (they floated out Hotel Praia Maria and Hotel Espirito Del Santo – which I checked were not in the country claimed), then the clearest one is when they start asking you to pay for hotel reservation by transferring cash as a precondition for enjoying other “free” things like air tickets and food etc. They even called me by phone – they were certainly Nigerians from their accents, including the one who claimed to be calling me from the US. I have learned that they are using, as bait, “young ladies” who pose as people looking for pals, who then starting getting flirtatious and the whole thing culminates in the young lady inviting you over to a conference; “I can’t wait to meet you as my lovely companion at the conference. Am sure we will have a nice time.” Drop them like a maggot-infested piece of rotten fruit!
This “Adam A Henders” sent me an email in Jan. but end with “Merry Christmas”. !
I sent you an email a couple of hours ago regarding an interview and the free credit report. I still have not heard anything yet, and am very eager to (hopefully) get you on our team.
The free credit report is located at http://[dubdubdub][dot]3twit[dot]com/freecreditreport
Please complete that free credit report and have a copy available for your interview. Once you’ve completed the free credit report, send me an email at adam@3twit.com, and I’ll get you set up for the interview.
Thanks again – I Look forward to working with you in the future.
Merry Christmas.
Adam A Henders
Transworld International
I applied for a job through an add and the first thing they asked for was a copy of my credit report. I tried looking up the company and this is what I found. Thanks for the heads up!
I too just applied for a job on craigslist. I filled out their application and now they want me to get the copy of my credit report. Looks like I won’t be getting this one either….
I know this is late but I just found this on craigs list today and sent them This email as a response for the scam theyre running with.
Good Morning Adam,
Here is a copy of my credit score. I will not attach the entire thing as I have been told of various scams online to obtain information on people to steal their identaties. The interview would be best to set up once I know where you are located. Thank you for considering me for this position.
Sincerely,
Sherry Reed
From: “admin@3twit.com”
To: Sherry Reed
Sent: Tue, January 26, 2010 4:43:47 PM
Subject: RE: Sherry Reeds Resume
Hi, Sherry
I have reviewed your application and I am very impressed to say the least.
I think you are a great match for our company. I would like to get you scheduled for an interview as soon as we can, so I need to know when you’re Available? We do interviews 9-5 Monday-Friday. The last step before the interview is completing your free credit report. Having a bad credit score will not affect your opportunity for employment, it is mainly just a formality. Complete your free credit report at http://www [dot] 3twit [dot] net/freecreditreport When you are finished with the report, email a copy to adam@3twit.net. It is company policy that all applicants must have a report on file. Please try to have this report sent to me within 48 hours, this way we don’t delay the process. Please, make sure if you haven’t already to verify your phone number. Use the
All the best,
Adam A. Henders,
Transworld International
I got my credit report offline at a free website and took the credit score page and hit (print screen), pasted it in word and saved as a DOC. This way I can respond to the jobs without suppling them with any pertanant information. I do not know if this is a job idea or not but I do not want to miss out on any real job oppertunities.
You are doing a great service to the world by letting us know about such fake individuals who want to swindle money from us. I almost became a victim.
THANK YOU
Joshua
Mid 2009 ,I happened to be very close friend with Lousie William via Amorex.com and after we shared dreams and a lot rhings in life she recomended me to take part a coference in Trans World International Youth Organization .I then got Participant letter from Madam Cynthia Brandy saying that I must Book accomodation only for Senegal but the rest like in New York ,said I was sponsored . However the drama came later when I was robed blind as I booked through Wetern Union after they called me on the phone quite often to do so. ….Finaly all this scam brought my life to the end by wasting all my resources and breaking me apart with my very family who provided me the money since I am an Ethiopian asylum in Nairobi Kenya ,also who is not emloyed for over years. So please advice if I can heal from this life time pain.
Love always
Sirak E.
Since i am supposed to rumble, i might as well sing. Boy! have i been had.
The worst is i have alredy submitted my particulars to yours trully, LUCIFER.
I got a mail from one Monicah Randy.Before i could glee over my new friend ( don,t we all need friends!(i was wowed by this invitition to a world conference in New york city and later Dakar Senegal.
I thanked God for big and small mercies and merrily went on to respond ever so enthusiastically, never mind the fact that am well above 40 and supposedly wiser.
And 30 minutes ago, before i could go to the nearest Western union branch and gladly loose a cool 450 euros, i am finding that the devil is not just alive but has become very dramatic. You could even say poetic.
My advice to the devil, go back to school or enroll in grammar class. This time stick longer in class to learn tenses and punctuation, thats how those who stayed awake in class and work for a living are not going to be your victims.
SHAME ON YOU
Today I received an email like this you have described. They also mentioned a web sirte which was totally non professional made. I know that this is scam but I have a question regarding this that is there any solution or restriction for these kind of websites bcoz my cousine has lost 250 dollars last month. But when they demanded more he just asked for money when he told me a story then i myself checked and search it on the internet and i found all things fake. Even I tried to contact via telephone, but the given numbers were fake and no one contacted afterward. But please do something about them and do some appropriate action against them. Thank You
Irfan Peter
Executive director
Asha Foundation Pakistan
I recently received an e-mail from this lady who claimed to had met me in many of the conferences I had attended.She invited me to attend the two upcoming events in New York and Lagos.As we continued to communicate she sent me her photos (which I suspected were fake!).What struck me more as strange was that a 25 year old American would not be in the social networks such as facebook and twitter.I pretended to be interested in attending the said conferences and she gave me an e-mail address to write to.Can you imagine an organisation without a webiste but uses a gmail?I wrote to them and surely as night follows day,they responded that for me to attend the said conferences then I have to first book an accomodation in Lagos.I recalled the funny things that has been happening in that country and it clicked that the Ogas are very busy at work!