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A guy called into my ****** Staffing office where I am the manager claiming he was with M2M Autoparts, a partner of our local Jalopy Jungle junk yards. He wanted to contract our service to staff 10 positions for the Caldwell location - 4 accounting staff and 6 sales support staff. He had a very thick middle eastern accent and kept purporting that money was no issue. Over several more phone calls and email exchanges I gather the necessary details to open their account with us. He signed 2 contracts Direct Placements at the highest rate of 30% and his pay rate he was offering was way above normal. I had to revise the first agreement to try and match the exact business name because it wasn't pulling up as M2M Autoparts so I made it under Jalopy Jungle. I could not find the link between the two companies' D&B and he kept pressuring me to hurry and send him resumes. He said my competitor, ******* Staffing, already sent him 2 resumes. Something just didn't feel right so I decided to have my Oops manager call him and I called the Jalopy Jungle. I spoke to the person who manages both the Boise and Caldwell junkyards and they did not know who "Mike Barnes" was, the company M2M Autoparts, and they are not hiring and if they were they wouldn't use a staffing agency. My Ops manager spoke to "Mike" and said it also sounded fishy because he asked to speak to someone else and the guy gave my Ops manager some number out of Wyoming to call, which he left a voicemail on. When I called the guy back to let him know I was unable to open an account for him, he hung up on me. Also, the website looks like a lot of AI fluff. I suspect the plan was to try and "hire" my candidates thru my trusted agency and then steal their direct deposit information.