Pablo Ruiz-Viajessalvattiera.com Travel Agency Job Scam
Beware Jobseekers! Someone going by the name Pablo Ruiz has been recruiting “employees” as payment processors for a travel agency! He is sending his email correspondence from the email address: pablo@viajessalvattiera.com!
Viajessalvattiera.com was just registered for one year on 9/21/2016 by someone going by the name Anzhelika Kondrateva in Bolshoe Ignatovo, Russia, email address: kondratievanki@yandex.ru. Below is a screenshot of the website at viajessalvattiera.com:
This person also registered 6 other domains in September as well: globevoyages.net, steja-travel.com, viattigi.com, viatgi-sl.com, molltona.net and euroitallia.net, which are all travel related websites! So we strongly suspect these people are operating money mule scams through all of these websites!
Globevoyages.net redirects to another website that has been online for 14 years: globe-voyages.com and steja-travel.com registered on 9/8/16 redirects to steja.com which was registered on 9/22/16!
The Scam Emails!
The victim in this scam informed us that Pablo Ruiz had her complete an application and sign a contract and then He had a check sent out that was made out to her. He told her she would be processing payments for the travel agency.
We are still awaiting the initial recruiting emails from the victim that alerted us to this scam and will update this post as soon as we receive them. However, we do have a screenshot of the actual email in which the scammer instructed the victim where and to whom to wire the cash!
The victim, believing this was a legitimate job, cashed the check and then followed the scammers instructions above, and now has discovered her bank account is in the negative because the check she cashed was fraudulent! Now she must cover the bad check plus fees out of her own pocket or she could possibly face prosecution!
Keep in mind job seekers, a legitimate business will never require it’s employees to handle company transactions under the employees name or require the employee to use their own bank account to handle any company financial transactions and then wire the cash overseas or put the cash on a reload it card! If you are asked to do this..DON’T! It’s a money mule check scam!
What To Do If You Are A Victim
If you have fell victim to an employment scam like this, you need to contact your bank immediately and close your account IF you have provided your account information to the scammers. Next file a police report with your local authorities and then file a complaint with the FBI’s internet crime center at http://www.ic3.gov/
If you provided your personal information like your social security# birthdate etc , you need to contact the 3 credit bureaus- TransUnion, Equifax and Experian, and place a fraud alert on your report. These criminals can steal your identity and may try and obtain credit in your name. Doing this will alert you for at least 90 days about any suspicious activity.
In the hands of a thief, just your name, address, Social Security number or date of birth, can be used over and over months- even years down the road to:
Open new lines of credit
Seek medical attention
Drain savings and retirement accounts
Provide an alias when arrested
Get a job or file false tax returns
Get Payday Loans in your name
Obtain service agreements for cellular service or utilities
Obtain Government Documents such as a drivers license or passport
And MORE!
That’s why I highly recommend you get some sort of ongoing identity theft protection such as the services offered through companies like LifeLock-Visit Their Website Here or Identity Force-visit their website here! LifeLock and Identity Force are both reputable companies that monitors your accounts and alerts and protects you from identity theft.
Have you received a suspicious email offering you an “opportunity” as an Payment Processor for viajessalvattiera.com? Feel free to copy and paste the email in the comments so we can help alert and prevent others from becoming victims.
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ADMIN, don’t be an idiot, the person who posted under STEVEN SHOVA works for the scammers trying to deflect your suspicions that the travel agency in question is a scam, which it certainly is.
Oh I assure you, I’m definitely no idiot, my suspicions was not deflected by Steven Shova at all! Didn’t you notice that he never responded to my questions??
However it is a fact that there is a legitimate agency at http://www.viajessalvatierra.com (one “t”) located in Alcalá de Guadaira, Spain, and their Facebook page is located here: https://www.facebook.com/departamentocomercial/. Just like I previously stated, this company is in no way associated with Pablo Ruiz and Viajessalvattiera.com (2 “ts”) or the most recent domain viajesalvatiera.com (registered 11/28).
I also received an email from this company and “pablo”. Seems many people try to convince he is real, like person above, but some thing seems fishy about the company.
There is a legitimate Travel Agency called Viajessalvatierra (only one “t” in the spelling) and it’s possible there may be someone named Pablo that works for them. However, what has happened is that scammers registered a domain called Viajessalvattiera.com (two “t’s in the spelling) and then set it up as a redirect on their host so when visitors clicked on their domain link they was redirected to the actual legitimate business website. The scammers then used the fraudulent domain they registered for the email server only in order to recruit and trick jobseekers into beleiving they were the legitimate company and was being offered a real job. These scammers has several different domains they have registered that are similar names to actual real Travel Agencies. They also registered another version of this same domain name under this spelling viajesalvatiera.com on 11/28. This was after we published this article.
So they are obviously running quite a few of these scams. Be careful.
I recieved an email from this company also.
I checked the legitimacy of the company. They fully meet all legal regulations for working in the United States. I also learned that Pablo works in this organization for a long time, someone hacked into his mailbox and decided to deceive people. I warned the company about this and they have already decided this issue.
What agency or person did you contact to verify the legitimacy of this company and what documentation did you obtain that proves they fully meet all legal regulations for working in the United States? Would you care to share that information please? Or did you simply take their word for it from whoever you talked to at Viajessalvattiera.com?
As we reported in the article, Viajessalvattiera.com was just registered by someone in Russia in September and since we published this article the website is now no longer online. So just how long is “a long time” that Pablo worked for this “organization”? What is the legal name of this Organization since all of their websites have different business names and different contact info?
This same person in Russia registered 8 domains in Sept and 3 more in November so far and some of them redirect to totally different domain names and websites registered to someone else in different countries which has been online for many years. This is another well known tactic that scammers use to deceive potential victims.
There is a legitimate Travel agency at http://www.viajessalvatierra.com. Notice there is only one “t” in the spelling. The scammers stole the identity of this business and created the website Viajessalvattiera.com to lure jobseekers into a money mule scam. They set up a redirect on the website that sent visitors to the legitimate website and used the fake domain for their email to contact victims.
I read your review and decided to write a letter to the company, try to get a job and to find out if it’s true. It seems to me that you exaggerate, because I was already working on a similar company and it is honestly fulfilled its obligations.
If you worked for a similar company and it was legit, that’s great. I never said ALL Travel agency jobs are a scam. But I assure you, this is no exaggeration, this particular Travel Agency is a money mule scam based on my conversation with the victim who now has to pay her bank back plus fees for the bad check he sent her. Plus she is now worried that her identity has been stolen! So I’m sure they will be more than happy to hire you and get their hands on your money as well.