An Unfortunate Event
Christmas last year. Everybody was preparing their christmas list, stuff to buy and all that, including me of
course. I then bumped to someone and told me that there’s a girl named Kelly who’s looking for people who will work for their company in California. She claimed that it was a Nursing Home, named Atria Del Rey. Details were tempting knowing the fact that I only have to pay 15,000 pesos (10000k for processing fee and 5000k for fingerprinting) and provide them with my papers. The first time I heard about it, I was like "It’s a good offer, I’ll think about it." The next day, for some reason, I thought my friend told me that this Kelly was his wife’s cousin so I was like "Gosh! This is for real!’ So I arranged my papers and met them with my officemate, his wife, which was really pretty, and Kelly at Starbucks Valero in Makati. I paid her 11,500 including my papers. Prior to the meeting, I informed her that I don’t have a passport and will give it to her once release from DFA. She said that she knows someone who can provide that to us and I just need to pay him 1500 pesos. Anyway, I was with Palan when we met her and she even offered him to come with me in US. She said that we have to fix his papers before the 15th so we’ll have the same flight by feb 2 2007. After a day, we gave her his papers + the processing fee.
It was my first time to meet her at Valero so I asked her some details regarding the job. She claimed that
it’s a family business, that her brother’s a doctor in their facility. Anyway, here are her details:
Name of Facility: Atria Del Rey
Address: 8825 Baseline Road, Rancho Cucamonga, California 91730
Tel#: 9094373358
Employer: Rebecca A. Smith
Illegal Recruiter’s Name: Kelly Forehand
Out of curiosity, I searched it on the net and found that Atria Del Rey does exist. I got the number 9099894346 (from the internet) and called the facility. I asked for Rebecca Smith and a girl named Diana who told me to callback after an hour coz she’s not around. Two stupid things I’ve done: I called the number from Google and not the number that she gave me and I did not call the facility back (ownership huh?). So knowing the fact that Rebecca Smith does exist, we paid her 10k for our fingerprinting fee. I was not happy with my job that time, you know, Same Shit, Different Day. So I felt like.. Let me just try this out. Besides, an opportunity like this happens once in a lifetime. So there you go. We paid her and was just waiting for our scheduled fingerprinting. Unfortunately, it was cancelled the first time and was rescheduled several times. Palan started to doubt the first time the scheduled was cancelled. But he won’t ask me directly coz he knows I’ll get mad for not trusting her coz yes.. she was nice at that time. The last time we saw her was at starbucks in the front of US Embassy and told us that there’s no need for fingerprinting coz our visas are OK. She was even asking for another 20k coz the employer will not pay for ‘whatever’ (forgot the term) bec our applications were late. I told her that we don’t have money anymore and she was like ‘Abonohan ko na lang muna 10K pro kayo na bahala
sa kalahati’. Tigas ng mukha!! That night, she texted me and said that she’ll just pay for the 20k and we can pay her once we’re at US (nakonsensya pa?!). So that was it. All I heard were promises from her SMS and immediately lost connection from her. Haay, thank God that she only got that amount of money from us. I know that it was still a big amount of money but compare to what we see in news like people selling their houses and all that. I even know someone who paid 250000k to an illeagal recruiter. Anyway, this is prolly one of their new modus operandi. Easy money for them huh?? Let this be a lesson for us.. (hehe esp for me). Here are her
details: her name is KELLY FOREHAND (she works in E-Telecare before). She claims that she has her own condo in
Torre Lorenzo beside La Salle. I will post her picture once my oficemate sends it to me. She claims that she just visited Manila bec her Granny died and she’s just extending her stay here because they need people to work for them. She told us (on our way home) that she has a boyfriend (or whatever), a lawyer graduate and who works at the same company, who doesn’t wanna help us find her coz he believes that she’s telling the truth. Haay nko, we did file a police report and no news as of the moment. I hope this blog will help other people and will help us find her. And oh yeah, Forgot to inform you that MOST of her victims are call center employees. She prolly thinks that since we have good salary, it’s not gonna be hard for us to pay her fees.
What the hell, wherever you are, I know that you’re very happy spending our money.. but let me remind you.. may katapusan ang lahat gurl.. BAD KARMA will hunt you (or it’s prolly hunting you know) and you’ll regret every single second you spent taking other people’s money.
