Description

I was sent a message by "Norman Rivas" on Indeed.com to confirm my Interest in a Low Voltage Technician job for the staffing company "Tek One". After confirming my interest, the scammer briefly talked to me and set up a time to give an initial phone interview. After discussing my past work experience, He asked me to send him a regular resume document, and I also included photos of cabling/closet work I've done. He claimed to have sent all these documents to the main contractor; Hexatronic, who then wanted an interview over Zoom and set up a time. During the later Zoom call, I further talked to "Norman Rivas" and discussed start times, availability, and transportation. After this, I was sent a Dropbox Sign 1099 independent contractor contract, seemingly spoofed as being from "Nicholas Pacella", who, from what I can tell, is an actual VP of Sales and Operations of the real company "Tek One Solutions". I stupidly filled out my information to start on Monday 6/23/2025 at 5866 Jetway Dr. Arlington, TN 38002. The supposed two job leads were named as Tim Penton (214-264-3032) and Oscar Rincones (469-274-3462). My "start date" was pushed back and wasnt given a new one, I went to the jobstite in the morning of 6/23 and the Receptionist there said he had never heard of Hexatronic or Tek One and said there was no low voltage contract being worked on there. Contacting both the supposed leads all just told me to talk to Norman Rivas again and only communicated over text. I became suspicious after reviewing the contract more the evening after signing on 6/21 mainly because I realized that the LLC that was supposed to pay me was listed as "Tek One LLC" not "Tek One Solutions LLC", and that the business address location did not seem to be an actual Tek One Solutions office upon further inspection, but I couldn't look personally because it is in Florida where Tek One is based. The Email sent from Nicholas Pacella also was passed through an intermediary service. I immediately froze my credit and moved money out of the account i submitted for Direct Deposit. As of writing this on 6/23 (two days after signing the contract), I haven't suffered any attempted withdrawals from my bank or new lines of credit, I also added a fraud alert to all three credit bureaus but have not been alerted to anything as of yet.